2024 U.S. Para Swimming National Championships
- December 13-15, 2024
- Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center, Orlando, Florida
- Long Course Meters (50m)
- Results on Meet Mobile: “U.S. Paralympic Swimming Nationals 2024”
- Final Meet Results (PDF)
Koehn Boyd wrapped a perfect five-for-five week on Sunday at the U.S. Para Swimming National Championships, winning Swimmer of the Meet honors with 5,691 total para-swimming points.
On Sunday, the 15-year-old from the Edina Swim Club in Minnesota won the 200 IM in 2:14.93. That time is a new lifetime best by more than two seconds, following three seconds of improvement so far in the short course season.
The 200 IM was one of five individual wins and five best times in the meet for Boyd.
Koehn Boyd’s Wins, 2024 U.S. Para Swimming National Championships
- 400 free – 4:11.03 (908 points)
- 100 fly – 58.13 (909 points)
- 400 IM – 4:44.28 (1063 points)
- 50 free – 25.13 (919 points)
- 200 IM – 2:14.93 (919 points)
- 200 free – 2:03.48 (863 points) prelims only
Not far behind with five wins of her own was Katie Kubiak, an S4 swimmer out of the state of New York. She smashed two more American Records, swimming 1:17.73 in the women’s 100 freestyle and 2:44.81 in the women’s 200 freestyle. In both cases, those swims broke her own records of 1:23.26 and 2:56.47, respectively, from the Bill Keating Jr. Memorial meet in Cincinnati in May.
The time in the 100 free also broke Tanja Scholz‘s 2022 World Record of 1:19.28 set at a meet in her home country of Germany.
Team USA’s Paris athletes continued to shine in the pool with two-time Paralympian Lawrence Sapp (Waldorf, Maryland) adding two more first-place finishes on the third day. Paralympians Olivia Chambers (Little Rock, Arkansas) and Grace Nufher (Indianapolis, Indiana) also picked up top results in the women’s 200m IM SM5-14 to add a gold and silver their collections, respectively.
World Para Swimming and U.S. Paralympics Swimming competition for the 2025 season resumes for the first world series of next year beginning on Feb. 14 in Australia. U.S. swimmers will have the opportunity to participate in several international and domestic events before the season culminates at the Singapore 2025 World Para Swimming Championships set to take place from Sept. 21-27, 2025.
In Paralympic swimming, classes S1-S10 are for athletes with physical impairments, classes S11-S13 are for athletes with visual impairments, and class S14 is for athletes with intellectual impairments. Within each of those ranges, a lower number generally indicates a more severe impairment.
Athletes receive separate classifications for freestyles/backstroke/butterfly events (S#), breaststroke events (SB#), and individual medley events (SM#). They can be the same, or they can be different, depending on the impairment.
In a multi-class scoring meet like this, athletes are given a point value for their swim that is relative to the World Record for their classification. The swimmer with the highest score (closest to the World Record) wins, though they won’t necessarily have the fastest time.
A press release from World Para-Swimming contributed to this article.
