Owen Chiles Cracks Decades-Old Iowa Record with 47.97 100 Back at IHSAA District Meet

2024 IHSAA Boys Swimming Districts – Dubuque

  • February 3rd, 2024
  • Dubuque, Iowa
  • SCY (25 yards)
  • Results

Team Scores

  1. Dubuque Hempstead – 412
  2. Pleasant Valley – 371
  3. Bettendorf – 326
  4. Dubuque Senior – 261
  5. Davenport Central – 189
  6. Muscatine – 136
  7. Davenport West – 115
  8. Clinton – 87

The Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) held their District meets for boys swimming and diving this past weekend, which lead into the state meet this coming weekend. At the Dubuque District, we saw a longstanding IHSAA state record broken. Pleasant Valley HS senior Owen Chiles, also a University of Cincinnati recruit, threw down a huge new personal best of 47.97 to win the 100 back. Not only was that swim a best time by over a second for Chiles, he shattered the state record of 48.83, which had stood for 21 years.

Chiles was great outside of the 100 back as well, winning the 100 free in 44.26. That time was another personal best and he won the race by a huge margin of 3 seconds. He also led the 200 free relay off in 20.36, another personal best. That relay would go on to win in 1:24.31. Chiles helped the 400 free relay to victory (3:05.64). In addition to Pleasant Valley, Chiles swim club for Iowa Flyers.

Chiles had a very successful meet at the 2023 Speedo Winter Junior Championships in Westmont, IL, taking 14th in the 200 IM (1:48.66), 18th in the 200 free (1:37.80), and 24th in the 100 back (49.04).

Fellow Pleasant Valley senior Will Gorman also won two events on the day. Gorman first won the 200 free in 1:40.32, then went on to win the 500 free in 4:36.14. He took the 500 by nearly 19 seconds.

Davenport West junior Eric Ding was another double event winner, taking the 200 IM in 1:53.97 and the 100 breast in 57.41.

EVENT WINNERS

  • 50 free: Kyle Powers (Dubuque Hempstead) – 21.55
  • 100 fly: Ricky Zillmer (Bettendorf) – 51.18
  • 200 medley relay: Dubuque Senior – 1:38.22

The IHSAA Boys Swimming State meet will be held this weekend, February 9th and 10th, at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

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thezwimmer
9 months ago

Boy wouldn’t it be wonderful if a great swimmer like that could go on to swim for an in- state school with amazing facilities…

OldIAswimmer
9 months ago

I believe the old record belonged to Andrew VanMeter from Ames

TXSwimDad
9 months ago

Would be cool to mention whose record he broke from way back when

The Original Swim Swam Art Vandelay
Reply to  TXSwimDad
9 months ago

Andrew Van Meter

TXSwimDad

Thanks!

JimSwim22
9 months ago

Sub 47 back in 1999!

PBJSwimming
Reply to  JimSwim22
9 months ago

Last edited 9 months ago by PBJSwimming
Rock Chalk
Reply to  JimSwim22
9 months ago

Well those lists are quite inaccurate.

SwimCoach
Reply to  Rock Chalk
9 months ago

Yup. Surprising really.

Seth
9 months ago

I wonder if the NFHS creates a list of top ten fastest times ever swam.
If so I bet this swim would be close to that.

Swimming a 47 in the 100 back in high school is crazy!!!!!

Jamison
Reply to  Seth
9 months ago

They have all American times for high school and he is on there.

Mike in Dallas
Reply to  Seth
9 months ago

high schoolers go 45 on the 100 back now. 47 is good, not top-10 ever lol

SwimCoach
Reply to  Seth
9 months ago

Unlikely top 10. For example Ohio had three different boys go a 46 in the 100 backstroke last year during the HS season.

Octavio Gupta
Reply to  SwimCoach
9 months ago

Alex Lim’s 46.82 in 1999 is legendary

this guy
Reply to  Seth
9 months ago

Murphy went 45.34 12 years ago.

Caleb
Reply to  Seth
9 months ago

don’t let them be mean to you, Seth, 47.9 is really fast!