2025 Winter Junior Championships – East
- December 10-13, 2025
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Prelims: 9 a.m EST
- Finals: 5 p.m EST
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Girls’ 500 Freestyle – Prelims
- Rylee Erisman (LAKR) – 4:39.77
- Brinkleigh Hansen (SPA) – 4:43.03
- Emily Wolf (FAST) – 4:43.24
- Elizabeth Eichbrecht (NOVA) – 4:44.54
- Clare Custer (SYS) – 4:44.88
- Quinn White (SAC) – 4:45.93
- Ellie Clarke (CSC) – 4:47.01
- Izzy Riva (SPA) – 4:48.01
Rylee Erisman kicked off this morning’s eastern Speedo Winter Junior Nationals prelims session with a lifetime best in the 500 freestyle. She registered a time of 4:39.77, slicing three-and-a-half seconds from her previous best of 4:43.35 which was set at the Florida G.O.A.T. TYR Team Challenge in January. The swim is the 27th fastest girls’ 15-16 500 freestyle in history.
Splits
| Distance | Time |
| 50 | 24.51 |
| 100 | 27.14 (51.65) |
| 150 | 27.79 (1:19.44) |
| 200 | 28.21 (1:47.65 |
| 250 | 28.33 (2:15.98) |
| 300 | 28.68 (2:44.66) |
| 350 | 28.77 (3:13.43) |
| 400 | 28.86 (3:42.29) |
| 450 | 28.98 (4:11.27) |
| 500 | 28.50 (4:39.77) |
Erisman entered the meet as the top seed in the 500 free, but her performance this morning has drastically increased the margin between the 1st and 2nd seeds in the event going into finals. Before prelims, Erisman was seeded just 0.17 seconds ahead of Elizabeth Eichbrecht. Moving into finals, Erisman now has a margin of over three seconds from 2nd seed Brinkleigh Hansen.
Behind Erisman, a four-way battle is shaping up for the podium positions. 2nd seed Brinkleigh Hansen, 3rd seed Emily Wolf, 4th seed Elizabeth Eichbrecht, and 5th seed Clare Custer are separated by just 1.83 seconds.
Erisman is set to compete in the 50 free later this morning. She is the top seed in the event, with her entry time of 21.61 seeding her nearly half-a-second ahead of 2nd seed Charlotte Crush and 3rd seed Mena Boardman.
That seed time is the second fastest girls’ 15-16 50 free in history. Erisman is just eleven-one-hundredths away from matching the fastest in history, held by Claire Curzan, who swam a 21.50 second 50 freestyle as a 15-16 year old in 2021.
ok this was a good swim but are we just gonna make a post every time rylee swims
Yeah maybe.
Good – the US needs her to be more of a 100 / 200 swimmer like the Aussies.
Too many of our top women are 50 and 100 swimmers.
Live Results? Is the link not updating so we can view results?
The web-based results appear to be not working. Meet Mobile is. I alerted USA Swimming.
Good odds she scratches the final so she can break the NAG in the 50 free final