2025 FAST HIGH SCHOOL OPEN
- Meet #1: November 9, 2025
- Meet #2: November 16, 2025
- FAST (Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training), Ocala, Florida
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet #1 Results on Meet Mobile: “FAST High School Open 2025 – WEEKEND #2”
- Meet #2 Results on Meet Mobile: “FAST High School Open 2025 – WEEKEND #2”
Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training hosted a pair of meets on back-to-back Saturdays following the FHSAA High School State Championships to provide swimmers with an opportunity to get some more racing in while they’re riding a taper.
The highlight swim of either meet came from Laker Swim’s Reef McMeeking, who competed on Nov. 16, one day after being disqualified in the heats of the boys’ 100 breast at the FHSAA 3A State Championships.
McMeeking, a 14-year-old freshman at Seabreeze Senior High School, chipped seven one-hundredths off his personal best time in the event at the FAST High School Open, clocking 55.48 to lower his previous PB of 55.55 set in early November at the FHSAA 3A Region 1 Championships.
The performance moves McMeeking up one spot into 7th all-time in the boys’ 13-14 age group.
All-Time Performers, Boys’ 13-14 100 Breaststroke (SCY)
- Reece Whitley, 53.06 – 2014
- Michael Andrew, 53.88 – 2014
- Shareef Elaydi, 54.66 – 2024
- Wilson York, 54.94 – 2024
- Ethan Dang, 55.06 – 2016
- Luke Zardavets, 55.45 – 2023
- Reef McMeeking, 55.48 – 2025
- Ethan Zhou, 55.54 – 2025
- Eli Siniak, 55.87 – 2024
- Noah Cakir, 55.94 – 2022
Had McMeeking gone that time in the FHSAA 3A state final, he would have placed 2nd to Allen Nease junior Luke Zardavets, who defended his title in 55.12.
Zardavets was also racing at the second FAST High School Open meet, opting for the 200 breast. The 16-year-old put up a season-best time of 1:59.55, ranking him 5th in the country this season in the 15-16 age group. The Florida commit’s PB stands at 1:56.96 from this past March.
One week earlier, at the first edition of the High School Open, Prakhanthi Rai (Thi Rai) of the Bolles School Sharks was the standout, setting new lifetime bests in the 200 breast and 200 IM.
In the 200 breast, the 16-year-old clocked 1:56.58 to rank him 22nd all-time in the boys’ 15-16 age group and 2nd this season, while in the 200 IM, his time of 1:48.92 ranked him 6th this season for 15-16 boys.
One day earlier, the Thai native won the FHSAA 1A state title in the 100 breast, setting a new PB of 53.44.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
- Fifteen-year-old Noah Walker of the Palm Harbor YMCA Piranhas set a new best time of 56.45 in the 100 breast, ranking him 11th this season among 15-year-old boys. Walker also clocked 49.96 in the 100 fly, just shy of his personal best of 49.78 set in early October.
- Bolles School’s Noah Stotler, 16, set new best times in the 100 free (45.66) and 200 fly (1:48.99), with the latter ranking him 12th this season in the boys’ 15-16 age group.
- His teammate Ali Canada, 14, set a lifetime best of 24.06 in the 50 free, ranking her 42nd this season in the girls’ 13-14 age group.
- Another Bolles swimmer, Liam Carrington, set a best time of 47.53 in the 100 back, ranking him 4th this season among 17-year-old boys.
- Fellow 17-year-old Bolles swimmer Ethan Bathala clocked 1:46.16 in the 200 back to rank 5th this season among 17-year-old boys. He set his personal best of 1:44.76 last season.
- Eighteen-year-old Lucy Mejia Arce, an Indiana commit, set season-bests in the girls’ 100 back (55.62) and 200 back (1:58.99), with the latter ranking her 61st this season in the girls’ 17-18 age group.
I forget sometimes that Reece Whitley was almost sub 53 at 14 years old.