The male and female winners in USA Swimming’s IM Xtreme (IMX) challenge for the SCY 2014-2015 have been announced, with some familiar names highlighting the tops of the point rankings. Sean Grieshop, Courtney Harnish, Andrew Seliskar and Taylor Ruck are among those young stars on the rise, who are already competing and making a name for themselves at the senior level.
To refresh, the IM Xtreme (IMX) ranking is tallied from swimmers competing in a series of five or six events, where their times are then ranked via a “Power Points” system. Swimmers must swim each required event at least once a season at a USA Swimming-sanctioned meet.
The events per age group are as follows:
9 & Under; 10-year olds: 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM
11-year olds; 12-year olds: 400 Free (LC) or 500 Free (SC), 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18-year olds: 400 Free (LC) or 500 Free (SC), 200 Back, 200 Breast, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM
IMX SCY 2014-2015 Winners:
17-18 yr old female – Sophie Cattermole, Sarasota Sharks, 5353 points
17-18 yr old male – Andrew Seliskar, NCAP, 6121 points
15-16 yr old female – Courtney Harnish, York YMCA, 5398 points
15-16 yr old male – Sean Grieshop, Nitro Swim, 5528 points
14 yr old female – Taylor Ruck, Scottsdale Swim, 5402 points
14 yr old male – Garrett Clasen, West Chicago Sharks, 5398 points
13 yr old female – Isabel Gormley, Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics, 5165 points
13 yr old male – Ethan Heasley, Hillsboro Swim Team, 5413 points
11-12 yr old female – Joy Jiange, Westchester Aquatic Club and Meghan Lynch, GYW Dolphins, 4607 points each
11-12 yr old male – Brett Feyerick, NCAP, 4724 points
10&U female – Ava Muzzy, Virginia Gators, 4782 points
10&U male – Jaeddan Gamilla, Maverick Swim Club, 5020 points
I think Michael Andrew might have the most of all time. I was looking at his deck pass and nearly all of his swims are in the 1000 area except his 500 which is still pretty good.
lol Seliskar…
Anyone have data on if that’s the highest IMX to date? It’s gotta be… I know 5k plus is legitimately outstanding. Not sure I recall any 6k scores.
According to this article, Andrew Seliskar is 6k+ at 6121.
The highest I saw in a quick look over archives was Phelps with a 6163 for the 2003 LC season
I know Michael Andrew has had 6k+ before also.
Seliskar’s best times in these events
500 free – 4:16.17
200 back – 1:41.37
200 breast – 1:51.57
200 fly – 1:41.33
200 IM – 1:42.84
400 IM – 3:37.52
wow, wow, wow
4 out of 6 of those times would have been top 8 at NCAA’s. The 500 free time would have been 17th. The 200 back would have been 18th. Basically, all 6 are NCAA scoring potential swims.
Doesn’t diminish how fast the 2 IM time is and I think he could probably go faster, but his 2 IM time would have only B finaled in the morning.
More wow…if there is a HS this year who could do ONE of these events on these times, that’d be the #1 recruit in the country for 2016. He is basically the equivalent of the best free, breast, back and IM recruit in the country on a given year all in one.