Articles by Will Baxley

2025 Winter Junior Championships – West: Day 4 Finals Scratch Report

15-year-old sprint beast Gabi Brito scratched the 200 backstroke as she guns for a fifth title of the weekend in the 100 freestyle

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#2 Seeded Audrey Derivaux Scratches 200 Back Final At Speedo Winter Juniors – East

Audrey Derivaux will still swim the 200 fly, and event in which she’s seeded #1. See the full scratch report for the session here.

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Agostina Hein Picks Up Another Argentine Record In SCM 100 Free

Agostina Hein popped a 54.16 100 free on her first race of the São Paulo Summer Open, adding another Argentine record to her collection

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Huy Huang Nguyen 5-Peats Mile, Lee Splits 48.0 100 FR on SEA Games Night 3

Huy Hoang Nguyen (VN) and Mikkel Lee (SG) were the respective distance and sprint standouts on night 3 of the 2025 SEA Games in Bangkok

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2025 Speedo Winter Junior Championships – West: Night 3 Scratches

Jacob Bougaieff (pictured) and Cade Vieler were among the names to focus on one event by dropping another on the third night in Austin

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Michigan’s Letitia Sim Scores Another Singaporean & SEA Games Record With 2:13.42 200 IM

Letitia Sim earned a second win and meet record at the 2025 SEA Games, and also beat her own national record in the 200 IM

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Kayla Sanchez Leads Philippines To Its First Ever SEA Games 4×100 Free Gold

Sanchez helped the Philippines get its ever 400 free relay gold and NR with a 53.79 anchor. Mikkel Lee approached a Schooling meet record.

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Stephan Steverink Posts 7:55.84 800 As Minas Tênis Clube Wins Brazil Open

Stephan Steverink closed out a successful 2025 by scaring his 800 free lifetime best. Minas TC won junior and senior meet and the season.

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Germonprez, Gemmell, Andrew End Their Meets Early (U.S. Open Night 4 Scratches)

After hitting a new 200 breast best time in the morning to rank 3rd, Texas’ Nate Germonprez will not swim in the home pool final

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200 Back National Champion Jack Aikins and 3rd Place Daniel Diehl Miss U.S. Open A Final

NC State’s Daniel Diehl and UVA’s Jack Aikins, who dueled for a spot on the Worlds team, missed out on the A final in Austin this morning

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Olympic Gold Medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri Lights Torch For 2026 Winter Olympics

Italy chose one of its most successful Summer Olympians, 5-time medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri, to light the torch before the Milan Olympics

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Jack Alexy Clips U.S. Open Meet Record With 47.66 100 Free

Jack Alexy took down Zach Apple’s 47.69 meet record, which was his lifetime best, with Chris Giuliano right on his tail in 47.70

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Angelina Köhler, Ilan Gagnebin Scratch 200 Fly 2nd Swims

The women’s 200 fly only had 16 swimmers, so Angelina Köhler’s scratch means that there will be a vacant lane in the semifinals.

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Women’s 50 Fly Swim-Off Set To Happen Between Leah Shackley and Miriam Sheehan

Leah Shackley is a current member of the NC State Wolfpack, and Miriam Sheehan was in Raleigh before transferring to Arizona State

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Sara Curtis, Ralf Tribuntsov Break 50 Back NRs En Route To #1 Seeds

Sara Curtis checks in as the first Italian woman to break 26, clocking 25.97. Tribunstov blasted a 22.86 to lower his 22.91 Estonian mark

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