All The Links + Swimmers To Watch At All Three Of The Speedo Sectionals This Week

Buckle up, folks. While several international meets around the world have wrapped up over the past few weeks, there’s still plenty of action happening here in the United States. This week features three of the seven Speedo Sectionals being held across the country, with the remaining four scheduled for next week. The sites for this week’s Sectionals are:

• Columbia, Missouri (Wednesday, July 9 – Saturday, July 12)
• Minneapolis, Minnesota (Thursday, July 10 – Sunday, July 13)
• Austin, Texas (Thursday, July 10 – Sunday, July 13)

The remaining four sectionals will take place July 17-20 in Columbus, Ohio; Novato, California; San Diego, California; and Mt. Hood, Oregon.

All three meets this week will include a mix of established collegiate standouts and rising age group stars, and they’ll all be racing alongside each other. One of the biggest names entered in the Austin meet is 2024 World Championship team member Piper Enge, who is scheduled to compete in the 50 and 100 breast at the World University Games less than a week after the conclusion of this meet. They are entered to swim the 100 and 200 distances this week, but they could go for a 50 split in the 200, something they did at the recent Indy Spring Cup. The Columbia meet will offer stroke 50s, which were recently added to the Olympic schedule, while Minneapolis and Austin have opted to not offer the distances as individual events this year.

Enge was 5th in the 100 (1:07.61) and 6th in the 50 (30.86) at Nationals last month, and owns bests of 30.53 and 1:07.27, respectively. They opted out of the 200 at that meet.

Jack Dahlgren, also heading to Berlin for WUGs alongside Enge, is entered to compete in the 100 butterfly at the Columbia location. He qualified for Team USA in the 200m distance for WUGS, where he popped a personal-best 1:55.18 in prelims before hitting 1:55.97 for 7th in the Nationals final during the first week of June.

Texas’ Alec Enyeart, another WUGS qualifier, will join Dahlgren in Columbia and will also just swim one event: the 1500 free. He nabbed a roster spot in each of the 400, 800, and 1500 at Nationals last month and will be busy in Berlin. He logged 3:48.46 for a lifetime best in the 400 prelims before hitting 3:48.96 in the final for 7th, and also added 7:58.66 and 15:18.97 in the longer distances, a bit shy of his April 800 best of 7:54.38 and 2022 1500 standard of 15:05.10.

Luke Vatev of the Hornet Swim Club in Hinsdale, Illinois is one of the top age group swimmers to keep an eye on, and he will swim at the Minneapolis meet. He’s entered to contest the 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 400 free, 100 fly, 200 fly, and 100 back. It has been a banner season for the 16-year-old. At the US World Championship Trials, he finished 25th in the 50 back (26.23), winning the Juniors final; 27th in the 100 back (56.11), and 28th in the 100 free (50.02). Those swims qualified him for the World Junior Championship roster. That meet is August 19-24 in Romania.

In the spring at the NCSA Junior National Championships, he won the 200 yard back (1:42.72) and finished 2nd in the 100 back in an Illinois Swimming LSC Record (46.76). He was the Illinois High School State Champion in both the 100 back (46.95) and 100 free (43.57) in February as just a sophomore, and at Winter Juniors West in December he had A-final finishes in both the 100 yard back (47.09) and 50 free (19.95).

Below, you’ll find the meet information packets, event schedules, psych sheets, live results, and the livestream for Minneapolis. The other two meets appear not to be streamed. Some key entries (not a comprehensive list) for each of the Sectionals are also included. We’ll be doing daily recaps of all of these meets, of course, but if you’re planning on following multiple meets on your own time, it may be a good idea to bookmark this page, so you have all the links in one place.

Columbia

• Wednesday, July 9 – Saturday, July 12
• Mizzou Aquatics Center, Columbia, MO
• LCM (50 meters)
• Meet Packet
• Psych Sheet
• Live Results on Meet Mobile” Region VIII Speedo Summer Sectionals”

Event Schedule:

Key Entries:

• Karolina Bank: 50 Breast, 200 IM
• Jack Dahlgren: 100 Fly
• Alec Enyeart: 1500 Free
• Ellis Crisci: 200 Free, 400 Free, 1500 Free
• Andrew Baklanov: 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 IM, 400 IM
• Hayden Gibson: 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM
• Darden Tate: 50 Free, 100 Free
• Jack Grandy: 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 IM
• Caleb Ellis: 50 Fly, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free
• Nicholas Alexander: 50 Back
• Grant Bochenski: 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Back, 100 Back

Minneapolis

• Thursday, July 10 – Sunday, July 13
• Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center, Minneapolis, MN
• LCM (50 meters)
• Meet Packet
• Psych Sheet
• Livestream
• Live Results: TBD

Event Schedule:

Key Entries:

• Kathryn McCarthy: 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 200 Fly, 200 IM
• Adalynn Biegler: 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free
• Libby McCarthy: 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free
• Alana Berlin: 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly, 100 Back, 200 IM
• Luke Vatev: 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 100 Back
• Xue Jiarui: 100 Free, 1500 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 Back, 400 IM
• Samuel Lorenz: 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Back
• Jozsef Polyak: 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Conner Hogan: 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Fly

Austin

• Thursday, July 10 – Sunday, July 13
• Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, TX
• LCM (50 meters)
• Meet Packet
• Psych Sheet
• Live Results: TBD

Event Schedule:

Key Entries:

• Chloe Stepanek: 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Lillian Nesty: 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Free, 200 IM
• Piper Enge: 100 Breast, 200 Breast
• Campbell Stoll: 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 Free, 200 IM
• Campbell Chase: 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 Free, 200 IM
• Ryan Branon: 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 100 Back
• Cooper Lucas: 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 IM
• Jack Berube: 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly