2025 EZ North Speedo Short Course Sectionals (Ithaca)
- March 27-30, 2025
- Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center, Ithaca, NY
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Results available on MeetMobile
Top 5 Team Standings
Combined
- Commonwealth Swimming – 283
- Metro Area Life Time – 275.5
- Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics – 261
- Crimson Aquatics – 241
- Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club – 173
Men
- Commonwealth Swimming – 211
- Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics – 127
- Metro Area Life Time – 122
- Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club – 111
- Crimson Aquatics – 110
Women
- Metro Area Life Time – 153.5
- Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics – 134
- Crimson Aquatics – 131
- West Hartford Aquatic Team – 116
- Peddie Aquatic Association – 90
The 2nd day of the of the 2025 Spring Sectional in Ithaca saw quite a bit of movement in the team standings. Commonwealth swimming has taken the lead in the combined scoring, and the CS men are now in a commanding lead. Metro Area Life Time is leading the women’s standings.
The finals session kicked off with a great race, seeing Eastern Express Swim Team 18-year-0ld Kennedi Dobson rip a 1:44.98 to win the women’s 200 free. A Georgia recruit, Dobson was close to her career best of 1:44.07, which she swam at the US Open a few months ago. Fellow 18-year-old, Sarah Rodrigues out of Jersey Aquatic Center, took 2nd in 1:46.56. The performance marks the Texas recruit’s first time under 1:47 in the event.
Dobson then went on to take 2nd in the women’s 400 IM, swimming a 4:13.73, which was a touch off her personal best of 4:11.70. It was 15-year-old Carly Afanasewicz (Phoenix Aquatic Club) who won the race, swimming a 4:12.01. She was well under her previous personal best of 4:13.71, which she set at the Winter Junior East meet a few months ago.
The men’s 200 free was also a great event, seeing a trio of boys go 1:36. Commonwealth Swimming 18-year-old Ethan Guo won the race by a little over half-a-second, swimming a 1:36.14. The Yale recruit has been as fast as 1:35.74 in his career. Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club 18-year-old Jack Haley came in 2nd in 1:36.74, marking a new career best. Haley is a Princeton recruit. Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics 18-year-old Edhy Vargas clocked a 1:36.86 for 3rd, also marking a new career best.
Guo would go on from the 200 free to win the men’s 100 fly in 48.06. The swim came after he went 48.05 in prelims. Crimson Aquatics 17-year-old Holden Brown took 2nd with a 48.34, clipping his previous personal best of 48.36.
14-year-old Sarah Zhang (Revolution Aquatic Club) won the women’s 100 breast in 1:02.10, taking nearly a second off her previous best of 1:02.92, which she set last month. She put together a strong race, going out in 29.41 and coming home in 32.69.
Commonwealth Swimming 18-year-old George Groves took the men’s 100 breast in 53.98. A Northwestern recruit, the swim marks Groves’ first time under 54 seconds in the event. 16-year-old teammate Gerhardt Hoover ripped a huge new career best of 54.20 for 2nd. Coming into the day, Hoover had a personal best of 55.50.
Hoover then went on to win the men’s 400 IM in 3:49.55. That was another massive swim for the 16-year-old, marking his first time under 3:50 in the event.
16-year-old Riley Anderson from West Hartford Aquatic Team won the women’s 100 fly in 52.88. It was a huge performance for the Duke recruit (fall of 2026), who entered the day with a personal best of 54.01. She went 53.81 in prelims to mark her first time under 54 seconds, then went under 53 in finals. Rice recruit Lily Archibald, an 18-year-old from Ridgefield Aquatic Club, came in 2nd with a 53.02, which also is a personal best for her.
The relay of the day was the 800 free. Crimson Aquatics won the women’s 800 free relay in 7:25.48, seeing Vivian Moulson (1:50.07), Jane Wheeler (1:50.74), Hazel Mouhidin (1:52.70), and Sara Reppucci (1:51.97) team up to get the job done. In the men’s 800 free relay, the Commonwealth Swimming ‘A’ team of Ethan Guo (1:38.33), Nicholas Cavic (1:39.51), Gerhardt Hoover (1:40.65), and George Groves (1:39.48) combined for a 6:37.97, winning the event.
