2023 YMCA NATIONALS (SC)
- April 2-7, 2023
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Central
- Live Stream
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Day 1 Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap
Tonight, day 4 of the 2023 short course YMCA national championships ensued, and the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free races were contested.
In the boys’ 50 free, 2023 Virginia Tech commit Brendan Whitfield won his third individual title of this meet, touching third in a time of 19.48. He takes 0.06 seconds off his personal best time of 19.54, and is now ranked third behind Scotty Buff (19.46) and Ethan Harrington (19.45) for the high school class of 2023 in the 50 free. In addition, Whitfield would also have ranked second on Virginia Tech’s roster in the 50 free for the 2022-23 season, just behind NCAA ‘A’ finalist Youssef Ramadan (18.68).
Also getting under 20-point in the 50 free was 2023 Cal commit Roman Jones, who swam a 19.75 to place second. His personal best coming into YNats was a 19.92.
2023 Texas commit Angie Coe narrowly beat defending champion and meet record holder Anna Moesch in the girls’ 50 free, swimming a 22.50 compared to Moesch’s 22.57. Coe’s swim is a new personal best for her by 0.02 seconds, while Moesch was around half a second off her best time of 21.96. Also dipping under 50 seconds in this race were Alexa Fulton (22.68), Cadence Vincent (22.74), Morgan Thomas (22.75), and Katie Lawrence (22.85).
Coe’s 50 free swim was the back half of a double session for her, as she had also swum the 200 IM beforehand. In the 200 IM, she placed second in a time of 1:57.38, shaving over a second off her pre-meet best of 1:58.81. Winning that same race was Emily Thompson, who swam a time of 1:56.85 that would have qualified her for the 2023 NCAA Championships. Yesterday, Thompson went a 4:09.05 in the 400 IM, which would have scored at 2023 NCAAs in the ‘B’ final.
Daniel Diehl took the boys’ 200 IM, who swam a 1:44.51 and won by over 3.5 seconds. His swim took down Brendan Burns’ meet record time of 1:44.87 from 2019, and was 1.50 off his personal best time of 1:43.01 from winter juniors last December.
2023 Kentucky commit Madi McGlothen won the 500 free in a time of 4:47.50, shaving over three seconds from her personal best of 4:50.80—which she clocked at last year’s YNats meet to place third. Finishing less than a second behind McGlothen was her future Kentucky teammate Hayden Penny, who went 4:48.31 to become the second sub-4:50 swimmer in the field. Penny also swam a huge PB, dropping over two seconds off of her previous PB of 4:50.90 that was also sett at YNats last year (coincidentally, she was 0.05 seconds behind McGolthen in last year’s race).
Winning the boys’ 500 free was 2024 Virginia commit David King, who swam a 4:22.37 and won by over four seconds. He was just over a second off his best time of 4:21.24 from early March 2023.
To close off the night, the 800 free relay was raced. The Greatest Somerset quarter of Colleen Bull (1:50.82), Moesch (1:49.81), Erica Maltsev (1:52.17), and Thompson (1:47.61) won the girls’ race in a time of 7:20.42, while Lynchburg’s Whitfield (1:34.13), Max Schonfelder (1:45.32), JC Gordon (1:40.52), and Jack Mills (1:39.03) combined for a 6:39.00 to win on the boys’ side.
Just a small typo update. Brendan touched first, not third.
And he also broke the meet record set by Ryan Held in 2014.
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Congrats to all the YMCA swimmers on the 100th anniversary of this meet. SWIMSWAM probably has already done in this past but it would be nice to see a feature about what makes the YMCA national meet unique. It is a special event.