2021 Speedo Summer Championships – Irvine
- August 3-7
- William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center, Irvine, CA
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Website (USA Swimming)
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Stream (USA Swimming)
FRIDAY FINALS HEAT SHEET
Day 4 – Friday, August 6
- 400 Freestyle
- 100 Breaststroke
- 100 Backstroke
- Men’s 4 x 200 Free Relay
MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – FINALS
Podium:
- David Johnston (TXLA) – 3:52.17
- Luke Hobson (LAKE) – 3:53.15
- Rex Maurer (ROSE) – 3:53.90
Rose Bowl 16-year-old Rex Maurer finished 3rd in the men’s 400 freestyle in Irvine tonight. Maurer kept pace with Luke Hobson, who ultimately finished 2nd, throughout the race, speeding to a huge new personal best of 3:53.90.
Maurer’s previous best was set in prelims, where he swam a 3:56.62 to qualify 4th for tonight’s A final. Prior to this meet, he had a lifetime best of 3:57.05, which he swam in early May of this year. In total, Maurer dropped 3.15 seconds in the event over the course of today.
Here is a split comparison between Maurer’s prelims swim this morning and his finals swim tonight:
| Splits | 2021 Speedo Summer Champs – Irvine PRELIMS | 2021 Speedo Summer Champs – Irvine FINALS |
| 50m | 26.62 | 26.47 |
| 100m | 29.25 | 29.10 |
| 150m | 29.68 | 29.39 |
| 200m | 30.06 | 29.85 |
| 250m | 30.18 | 29.53 |
| 300m | 30.34 | 30.08 |
| 350m | 30.48 | 30.13 |
| 400m | 29.91 | 29.35 |
| Final Time | 3:56.62 | 3:53.90 |
Maurer was out slightly faster tonight than he was this morning, swimming 0.30 seconds faster on the first 100. The main difference between the swims is that Maurer held his pace much better tonight, swimming 2.22 seconds faster on the final 300 of the race than he did this morning.
With the swim, 16-year-old Maurer becomes the #16 performer all-time in the boys 15-16 400 free. Here are the #11-20 all-time rankings for 17-18 boys in the LCM 400 free:
| Rank | Time | Swimmer | Date |
| 11 | 3:53.07 | James Plage | 8/8/2019 |
| 12 | 3:53.39 | Andrew Abruzzo | 8/26/2016 |
| 13 | 3:53.51 | True Sweetser | 8/6/2014 |
| 14 | 3:53.63 | Fran Crippen | 3/27/2001 |
| 15 | 3:53.69 | John Mykkanen | 1/1/1983 |
| 16 | 3:53.90 | Rex Maurer | 8/6/2021 |
| 17 | 3:54.00 | Cooper Lucas | 7/24/2021 |
| 18 | 3:54.12 | Trey Freeman | 8/26/2016 |
| 19 | 3:54.14 | Chris Yeager | 8/1/2015 |
| 20 | 3:54.34 | Daniel Kanner | 1/1/1990 |
Other lifetime bests from Rex Maurer this week:
- 100 free – 51.10
- 200 free – 1:50.21
Maurer’s 100 free ties for 60th all-time in the 17-18 boys age group, while his 200 free ranks #13 all-time in the age group. He’s slated to race both the men’s 800 free and 50 free tomorrow, so we’ll see if he opts to stick with both of those, and can add more all-time age group rankings to his resume.
What is interesting is this kid came from Chicago area which probably had good swimming programs as well. I think the parents were transferred to JPL. His explains why a kid from Chicago would moved to a more expensive area like Pasadena the parents were relocated to JPL or some other job.
I’d imagine it’s probably due to his mother’s position as associate head coach of USC, not JPL.
Well, his mom is an associate head coach at USC.
As far as I know, neither parent works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Rex’s dad works in finance.
Rex’s dad won ncaa’s in the 50 free before getting his degree. And he might be the slowest in the family when all is said and done. Wonderful guy who I got to watch along with his brother in high school. Feels good to see a family of good guys (guys includes women) doing so well.
Rex looks to be the premier Boy’s swimmer of the high school class of 2023. Strong family ties to Stanford with both parents Stanford grads and older brother Luke a highly recruited swimmer when the family lived in Illinois and now an impact swimmer on the current Stanford Roster. Mom, Lea, was Stanford HC at one time but is now an assistant at USC. The Maurer brothers swim for Rose Bowl Aquatics coached by Jeff Julian, former USC swimmer and recently an assistant at USC. Jeff’s son Trenton is an elite D1 swimmer at Cal. Rex attends Loyola High School in the downtown Los Angeles are just a few miles from the USC campus and the LA Coliseum “home base”… Read more »
I wondered if he was the son of Lea Maurer, currently assistant coach at USC, former Stanford head coach and former world and olympic gold medalist. Thank you for answering a question I was gonna ask.
I’m glad I had the opportunity to train with Luke and Rex when they lived here in IL for a while. Really made practice fun and challenging and we all got better at the end of the day. Happy to see Rex doing very well.
It’s incredible to see the name John Mykkanen who nearly 40 years ago went 3:53…think about that for a minute!
And the year later he won the silver medal in the 400 free in Los Angeles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNgphhkQDrs
Family of swimmers. His daughter Courtney swam at Cal recently. And we have 2 other Mykkanens this week in Irvine with Christopher on the men’s side and Cameron on the women’s side.
Bobo sometimes I think I’m a great swim nerd but then you come up with deep cuts like this. You’ve got just an insane depth of knowledge
Christopher Mykkanen (his son) was actually in this race and got 4th.