2026 KSHSAA 5-1A Boy’s State Swimming & Diving Championships
- February 19 – 21, 2026
- Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center
- Lenexa, KS
- 25 Yard (SCY) Format
- Defending Champions: Andover (x3)
- Meet & State Records
- Full Meet Timeline
- Meet Central
- Full Results
The Kansas High School Boy’s 5-1A State Championships was an intense battle for second behind 3-time the defending champions Andover, who would ultimately prevail by a margin of more than 150 points. A small team representing Louisburg made a great deal of noise and topped the podium five times with three individual and two relay wins. Alongside Louisburg, Wichita’s Kapaun Mt. Carmel and Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest demonstrated excellent depth to make the battle for second very interesting.
Casey Carpenter-Ross of Louisburg won both the 50 and 100 freestyles, posting times of 20.95 and 45.81, respectively. This represents Carpenter-Ross’s second time under 21 in the 50 free with his first coming in prelims with a 21.98, and prior to that his lifetime best stood at 21.10 from November. He achieved a similar milestone in the 100, breaking 46 for the first time as his previous lifetime best stood at 46.25, also from November.
Carpenter-Ross was also on two champion relays. First, on the 200 medley relay, Carpenter-Ross split 20.74 as the anchor, contributing to Louisburg’s total time of 1:34.87, undercutting the State Record from 2019 set by Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege. Colin Brown led off the relay with a 24.31 on backstroke, followed by Andrew Jamison with a 26.74 on breaststroke, and then a 23.08 butterfly split from Noah Sharp. The same quartet would go on to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:26.60. Brown led off in 21.81, followed by Sharp with a 21.92, then Jamison in 22.07, and capped off by Carpenter-Ross with a 20.80.
Colin Brown claim gold in the 100 butterfly in 50.96, shaving 0.12 from his previous best time, and finish second in the 100 backstroke in 53.52, just off his lifetime best from this meet last year. Brown will continue his swimming career at Rockhurst University in the fall. Andrew Jamison, who is also bound for Rockhurst in the fall, finished second in the 100 breaststroke in 59.04, a new lifetime best by 0.36, and finished fourth in the 200 IM in 1:58.94, his first time under 2:00 after having gone 2:00.01 in prelims. While Louisburg was dominant in the sprint relays they did not field a team for the 400 freestyle relay. Despite only having four swimmers score individual points and two relays, Louisburg secured a third-place finish overall in the team standings with 205 points.
Andover’s Clark Young won the 200 IM in 1:53.74, improving upon his previous lifetime best of 1:54.48, and finished second in the 500 freestyle in 4:43.31, about four seconds shy of his lifetime best of 4:39.65 from March of 2025. Teammate Eric Witt finished second in the IM with a 1:54.26, a new personal best by 0.54, and later won gold in the 100 breaststroke in 58.06, short of his lifetime best of 57.36 from March 2025. Freshman Henry Christensen also placed second in the 50 freestyle in 21.65 and tied for third in the 100 freestyle with a 47.89, sharing the bronze with Andover Central’s Tyler Voros who also finished third in the 50 freestyle in 21.78.
Defending champions Andover collected their fourth-consecutive championship title with 339.5 points with 16 athletes and three relays scoring points, including a runner-up finish in the 200 medley relay (1:35.99), a sixth-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay (1:32.85), and a first-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay (3:13.79).
Eisenhower’s Dylan Patterson also won two individual events, first with a 1:40.77 in the 200 freestyle, demolishing his previous lifetime best of 1:42.46 from March of 2025, and later won the 500 freestyle in 4:37.83, just undercutting his previous best time of 4:38.18 from October.
El Dorado freshman Sam Christy claimed the state title in the 100 backstroke in 51.73 and finished third in the 100 butterfly in 51.96. Christy entered the meet with a lifetime best of 52.87 in the backstroke and a 52.63 in the butterfly, showing significant improvements in both events for the freshman.
Junior Gage Cooper of Andale won diving with 474.55 points. In fact, all of Andale’s points came from diving with Hudson Tankersley, also a junior, securing 6 more points with an 11th-place finish on the board.
Top-10 Team Finishers
- Andover – 379.5 points
- Kapaun Mt. Carmel – 225.5 points
- Louisburg – 205 points
- Blue Valley Southwest – 198 points
- Wichita Collegiate – 150 points
- Winfield – 133 points
- Maize South – 107 points
- Piper – 66 points
- The Independent School-Wichita – 63 points
- Andover Central – 60.5 points
