2026 Ohio SC Senior Champs
- March 4-8, 2026
- Columbus, OH
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Mobile: “2026 OH Tim Myers SC Senior Champs”
The Central Ohio Aquatics boys 200 free relay swam to a new National Age Group (NAG) record touching in a 1:18.41 in the 200 free relay. All four splits were sub-20 seconds.
The relay of Jake Lloyd, Caden Mahl, Alex Wu, and Austin Carpenter broke the previous record of a 1:18.67 set by Quicksilver Swimming back in December at Winter Juniors. They took the record back from Quicksilver after the Central Ohio boys swam to a 1:18.96 on the same night in December.
Split Comparison
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Central Ohio Aquatics
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Quicksilver | ||
| Jake Lloyd | 19.57 | Nathan Foucu | 19.87 |
| Caden Mahl | 19.64 | Clark Apuada | 20.06 |
| Alex Wu | 19.76 | Isaac Litwiller | 19.29 |
| Austin Carpenter | 19.44 | Tyler Porter | 19.45 |
| 1:18.41 | 1:18.67 |
The biggest difference was that all four boys tonight were sub-20 seconds. Arizona State commit Jake Lloyd led off in a 19.57 to get them on the right start. Lloyd notably swam a lifetime best 19.39 in the 50 free last week at the OHSAA Division I State Championships in his high school season.
Austin Carpenter, a Texas commit, had the fastest split for Central Ohio Aquatics as he anchored in a 19.44. Carpenter has a flat start best of a 19.77 from last month. Wu is also a senior in high school but does not have a publicly announced commitment yet.
Holy swimflation
How has swimswam not had an article written about the OHSAA yet? You did Indiana
Further proof Ohio might be the most underrated state for swimming.
I don’t think Ohio is underrated. It doesn’t have the volume of kids that Florida, Texas, California have. But the HS state meet is regarded as one of the best in the country and has routinely put out athletes to compete at the NCAA and some onto the international level.
The same relay team just went 1.19.41 at ohio highschool state
They missed keller national hs record by 0.2 right?
Yup, they were close.
Bruh how do you get 4 dudes from the same club team to each crack 20?
Same high school too
Yes- all were “recruited” to a catholic high school. Club coach is Also HS coach
I heard they recruited that caden guy all the way from Maryland
Swimflation? At this point who knows.
Elite coaching. Kyle’s really good. He ran the OSU club team and they were one of the top clubs in the country while he was there.
If by elite coaching you mean recruiting and stealing swimmers like he did with OSSC.
Put talented swimmers together, give them a great coaching staff, and let them compete every day… the results speak for themselves.
Great team environment and great coaching setting them up for success.
Three of those have been friends/teammates since they were 8. They pushed each other there.
All were trained up under another local team growing up then switched over when they got to High School, guess who gets all the credit.
Why did they switch over?
It’s more complicated than my doppelganger suggests . They were together on the local team from 7 to I believe 11. If I recall correctly one went over to OSSC and another followed, but OSSC disbanded because of COVID so they went back to the local team. So they were together again. Then 2 enrolled at St. Charles Prep and transferred to COA (team created by former OSSC head coach). It is virtually impossible to attend SC and swim for the local club (Dublin Community Swim Team) because of school hours, drive time and practice time impracticality.
Eventually the 3rd transferred into St. Charles Prep and to COA. Transferring into SC is actually really difficult to do.
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