2017 NCSA Junior Nationals
- Tuesday, March 14 – Saturday, March 18, 2017
- Tuesday Timed Finals 4:00 PM Eastern
- Wed-Sat Prelims 8:30 AM / Finals 6:00 PM Eastern
- Live Stream
- Live results available on Meet Mobile
- Results will be posted here after each session
If the first night of timed finals is any indication, this year’s NCSA Junior Nationals will be a historically fast meet. Matthew Hirschberger and Sierra Schmidt each put up top-20-ranked 1000 frees for under-18s all-time on opening night.
Hirschberger went 8:55.32. He checks in at #14 all-time for the 17-18 age group and sits nine seconds off the National Age Group record, though he was still ten seconds off his 15-16 NAG record set back in 2015 at 8:45.11. Hirschberger competes for the Nation’s Capital Swim Club and will attend Stanford next season.
In the girls event, Schmidt went 9:35.06. She, too, is still a high school senior, but is already competing for Club Wolverine after verbally committing to swim for Michigan next year. Schmidt was 9:35.06 to win the women’s event, moving to #16 all-time for 17-18 girls and displacing Kaitlin Sandeno for that spot.
Also of note, Madison Homovich of the Marlins of Raleigh took second in 9:38.16, jumping to #21 all-time in the 15-16 age bracket. In the men’s race, Robert Freeman was second for the Baylor Swim Club. He, too, moved up in the 15-16 ranks, going 8:56.30 to jump from 8th to 7th all-time in that age class.
The night concluded with four relay races. Machine Aquatics won the boys 200 free relay in 1:22.14, getting straight 20-second splits from Thomas Hallock (20.14 leadoff), Christian Ginieczki (20.31), Casey Storch (20.82) and Jayaprakash Kambhampaty (20.87).
Minnesota’s Aquajets Swim Team won the girls 200 free relay in 1:31.94. That included a 22.68 anchor job from Rachel Wittmer as well as a 22.96 split from 13-year-old Abigail Kapeller. Also on the winning squad were Carly Quast (23.33 leadoff) and Alexis Schaaf (22.97).
The girls medley relay went to Nation’s Capital in 1:40.25, narrowly touching out the Aquajets. 14-year-old Phoebe Bacon led off in 25.10, with Abigail Harter splitting 28.13 on breaststroke, Isabella Gati 24.95 on fly and Katelyn Mack 22.07 on freestyle.
The boys medley relay is still unofficial. The meet website indicates that a “DQ in question” has the results still up in the air, and results were not included on Meet Mobile or in the linked results.
Dear swimswam, live recap for tonight’s session? I will watch finals live until Saturday. Not too late for France. It starts at 11 PM.
By the way it’s really irritating to not have live results. We are in 2017.
Hey bobo – plan is after-the-fact prelims and live finals.
Worst swimming announcer? Worse than Rowdy Gaines? Can’t even keep the sound on the live stream, it’s just awful.
Rowdy is unfortunately becoming the Javale McGee of swimming. Easy to pile on, but he’s not really that bad.
No no no. Javale McGee is that bad.
Wait when did Sierra Schmidt leave NBAC? When Bowman left?
Is she home schooled?? Is that how she is already at MI & competing for club wolverine??
She might have graduated early like some football players do and then enrolled in January? just guessing. Not sure if she is able to train with the team if that is the case. Football players (mostly quarterbacks) are allowed to train with team in this scenario.
She’s also going to turn 19 on May 6th so maybe she already graduated?
A lot of the NBAC swimmers left when Posegay left for Penn State, especially the distance swimmers.
NCAP boys unofficially went 1-2 in Medley.
Which team dq’ed?
22.07 anchor for 15-yr-old Katelyn Mack for NCAP — wow
Not Hirschberger’s first time under 9:00. He has the 15-16 NAG at 8:45, which happens to be faster than the 17-18 NAG as well. This is his first time under 9:00 as a 17-18 year old tho.
Not bad for someone who not been doing any distance work in over a year. Jeff will fix that.