2025 U.S. Junior National Championships
- Wednesday, July 30–Sunday, August 3, 2025
- Irvine, California
- William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
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- Complete Results (PDF)
- Recaps
Teagan O’Dell and Sean Green walked away with the High Point Awards at the 2025 U.S. Junior National Championships, with the competition wrapping up on Sunday in Irvine.
O’Dell scored 104 individual points to lead the girls by five points, while Green scored 100 on the boys’ side to win by a margin of 15.
Girls’ High Point — Teagan O’Dell (Pleasanton Seahawks), 104 Points
Pleasanton Seahawks’ O’Dell competed in eight different individual events and contributed to five different relay events during the four-day meet. Coming to the meet just a few weeks after securing two individual silver medals at the World University Games, O’Dell made an immediate impact by opening in the “slower” heats of the 800 freestyle, where she jumped from the 55th seed to 12th overall with her final time of 8:50.57. Her previous best time was 8:56.86 from the 2023 edition of this competition.
The Cal commit dominated her heat and won it by just under two and a half seconds, leading by over a second after the first 100 and steadily inching forward throughout the race. Later in that opening session, she returned to the pool to take bronze in the 50 back (28.65) and help her team to 3rd in the 200 free relay, narrowly missing her best time of 28.52, which she logged at the 2023 World Junior Championships semifinals.
The second day saw the 18-year-old tackle the 400 IM. She touched the wall fifth in 4:48.30, just over eight seconds slower than the 4:39.96 she posted at WUGs to take silver behind American Leah Hayes in a Team USA 1-2 finish. She led after the first 50 but slowly dropped off her best time pace for each 50 thereafter.
She then helped the team take 2nd overall in the 800 free relay to cap off the day. Swimming in heat two, they won by eight seconds, but all of the top teams were separated throughout five heats. When all was said and done, Long Island Aquatic Club took the win by 0.36 with their slightly faster time from a different heat.
On the third day, O’Dell scratched both of her individual events (400 free and 200 back) but lined up for the 200 medley relay. She was slotted into the butterfly leg, arguably her “worst” stroke, and posted a 26.99 split, helping the team to 4th overall, just over two seconds behind SwimMAC Carolina.
O’Dell took on the 200 free and 100 back on the penultimate night, winning both in 2:00.02 and 1:00.11. She led the 200 free from start to finish, while she took the lead in the 100 back right after the first turn after sitting in the middle of the pack. Her 200 free best is 1:59.15 from February 2024, while she swam 59.51 leading off a relay at the 2023 World Juniors.
She capped off the session with a 55.45 anchor on Pleasanton’s 400 free relay, winning heat one with a time that held up for 2nd overall at the end of the night. Bellevue took gold medal honors with an outing 1.57 seconds quicker.
On the final night, she dominated the 200 IM by 2.10 seconds, leading from the gun after notching a season-best 26.31 50 free split in prelims. She capped off the evening with a 59.22 on the silver medal 400 medley relay fly leg, with a cumulative time that was 0.09 shy of the winning time from heat one.
Boys’ High Point — Sean Green (Long Island Aquatic Club), 100 Points
18-year-old Sean Green of Long Island Aquatic Club was simply on fire in Irvine.
The Georgia commit was a perfect five-for-five in his individual events, setting lifetime bests across the board to climb the all-time rankings in the boys’ 17-18 age group.
His performances in the 400 free (3:47.07) and 400 IM (4:15.53) both landed him in the top 10 historically for his age group, ranking 8th and 9th, respectively. These swims represented massive time drops, with Green cutting over three seconds from his 400 free on night two and more than two seconds from his 400 IM in the night three finals.
His biggest improvement came in the 1500 free, where on night one he obliterated his previous best by 17.5 seconds, clocking 15:07.49 to jump from 71st to 16th all-time among 17–18 boys. He also broke the nine-year-old meet record of 15:16.62 set by Johannes Calloni in 2016, winning by 15.46 seconds and leading from start to finish.
In the 200 free on day four, Green ran down Irvine Novaquatics’ Derek Hitchens (1:48.55) on the last 50 to claim gold in 1:47.97, shattering his previous best of 1:49.35.
On the final night, Green chipped off half a second in the 800 free to win in 7:55.94, lowering Luka Mijatovic’s 2023 meet record of 7:59.64. He was dominant once again, winning by about five and a half seconds.
In all five of his individual victories, Green also set new Metro Swimming LSC and LIAC club records.
He was also busy on the LIAC relays, splitting 23.70 and 23.79 on the 200 free and 200 medley relays, 51.31 and 52.92 on the 400 free and 400 medley relays, and 1:48.97 on the anchor leg of the 800 free relay to move the team up to 4th place in 7:30.82. Among LIAC’s boys’ relays, only the 800 free relay placed in the top 16.
Team Scores
Girls’ Final Team Standings – Top 5
- Pleasanton Seahawks, 344 points
- SwimMAC Carolina, 339 points
- Bellevue Club Swim Team, 248.5 points
- Beach Cities Swimming, 238 points
- Mecklenburg Swim Association, 209 points
Boys’ Final Team Standings – Top 5
- Mason Manta Rays, 288 points
- Carmel Swim Club, 220 points
- Marlins of Raleigh, 192 points
- Bolles School Sharks, 184 points
- Irvine Novaquatics, 182 points
Combined Final Team Standings – Top 5
- SwimMAC Carolina, 519 points
- Mason Manta Rays, 496 points
- Pleasanton Seahawks, 418 points
- Irvine Novaquatics, 385 points
- Lakeside Aquatic Club, 367 points
