SPEEDO WINTER JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – EAST
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Prelims: 9 am (ET)
- Finals: 5 pm (ET) – Wed. relays at 6 pm
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Stream
**Note: The live stream link will pull up the girls live stream. To get to the boys live stream, click the PIP in the corner of the screen.
The first day of individual events kicks off in Greensboro this morning, with the 500 free, 200 IM and 50 slated to take place. Prelims get under way at 9 AM EST.
Club Wolverine’s Hannah Bellard comes in as the top seed in the girls 500 free at 4:41.24, while Sarasota’s Liam Custer sits atop the psych sheets in the boys 500 at 4:18.49. Lifetime North Carolina’s Kiley Wilhelm will be the top seed in the girls 200 IM, with her lifetime best sitting at 1:56.67. The boys 200 IM highlights today’s races, with 2022’s top-ranked recruit Baylor Nelson of SwimMac scheduled to face off with 2023’s stop-ranked recruit Will Modglin. The session will wrap up with the 50 free, with Eagle Aquatics’ Erika Pelaez holding the top girls seed at 22.52 and Bolles’ Drew Salls coming in as the boys top seed with a lifetime best of 19.94.
Girls 500 free
Meet Record: Regan Smith (Riptide) 4:37.10 (2018)
Top 8 finishers:
- Michaela Mattes (SYS): 4:43.98
- Lynsey Bowen (CSC): 4:45.35
- Natalie Mannion (CS): 4:46.07
- Emma Hastings (ECA): 4:47.10
- Hannah Bellard (CW): 4:47.34
- Addison Sauickie (SYS): 4:47.80
- Maddie Waggoner (JW): 4:48.99
- Alex Mitchell (DYNA): 4:50.82
Sarasota’s Michaela Mattes will head into the final as the top seed after touching first in 4:43.98, just one second off of her lifetime best. Her teammate, 15 year old Addison Sauickie, will join her in the A final after qualifying 6th in 4:47.80.
Lynsey Bowen, a 14 year old from Carmel, dropped a half second from her lifetime best to nab the second seed for this evening in 4:45.35.
Top seed Hannah Bellard of Club Wolverine qualified 5th in 4:47.34. That swim is well off of her lifetime best of 4:41.24.
Boys 500 Free
Meet Record: Jake Magahey (Swim Atlanta) 4:12.72 (2019)
Top 8 finishers:
- Logan Zucker (MAC): 4:21.40
- Liam Custer (SYS): 4:22.10
- Sebastian Sergile (SA): 4:23.30
- Lance Norris (TAC): 4:23.46
- Henry McFadden (JW): 4:24.96
- Tristan Denbrok (SA): 4:25.42
- Aaron Shackell (CSC): 4:26.10
- Own McDonald (DYNA): 4:26.18
SwimMac’s Logan Zucker dropped a new lifetime best in the prelims to take the top seed for tonight’s final in 4:21.40. That is a 1.5 second drop the high school senior and Michigan commit, who nearly even-split his race 2:10.10-2:11.30.
Top seed Liam Custer of Sarasota Sharks coasted to the second seed in 4:22.10, well off the Stanford commit’s lifetime best of 4:18.49. Swim Atlanta’s Tristan Denbrok had the largest drop of the A finalists, dropping over 4.5 seconds to qualify 6th in 4:25.42.
Also notable was second seed and NC State commit Michael Cotter, who came in with a lifetime best of 4:19.93, missed a second swim all together. Cotter added over 11 seconds to finish in 37th in 4:31.19.
Girls 200 IM
Meet Record: Alex Walsh (Nashville Aquatic Club) 1:53.69 (2018)
Top 8 finishers:
- Devon Kitchel (CSC): 1:58.40
- Emily Thompson (GSCY): 1:59.30
- Elizabeth Tilt (GOLD): 1:59.45
- Alex Shackell (CSC): 1:59.51
- (Tie) Kiley Wilhelm (LTNC)/Rye Ulett (DYNA): 1:59.60
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- Gigi Johnson (SA): 1:59.66
- Natalie Mannion (CS): 1:59.71
Carmel’s Devon Kitchel takes the top seed heading into tonight’s final, posting a 1:58.40 which is a .7 second add from her lifetime best. Her 15-year-old teammate Alex Shackell will also join her in the A final this evening after posting a massive 4.5 second drop to finish fourth in 1:59.51.
Greater Somerset County Y’s Emily Thompson dropped nearly a full second from her lifetime best to qualify second for the final in 1:59.30.
Top seed Kiley Wilhelm of Lifetime North Carolina qualified in a tie for fifth with Dynamo’s Rye Ulett with a 1:59.60. That swim is almost three full seconds off of Wilhelm’s lifetime best of 1:56.67.
Commonwealth Current’s Natalie Mannion notably qualified for her second A final of the day, finishing in 8th in 1:59.71. She also qualified third in the 500 earlier.
Boys 200 IM
Meet Record: Carson Foster (Mason Manta Rays) 1:42.43
- Baylor Nelson (MAC): 1:44.77
- Kamal Muhammad (SPAC): 1:45.60
- Daniel Diehl (CUY): 1:46.69
- Owen McDonald (DYNA): 1:46.72
- Will Modglin (ZSC): 1:46.78
- Josh Zuchowski (FAST): 1:46.92
- Will Heck (BSS): 1:47.04
- Gibson Holmes (RAYS): 1:47.19
As expected, SwimMac’s Baylor Nelson defends his top seed and will be the favorite heading into the final tonight, posting a 1:44.77. That swim comes just three tenths off of his lifetime best of 1:44.46. Following a pair of great IM’s at last week’s US Open and a blistering 19.1 split on last night’s 200 medley relay, Nelson seems to be setting himself up for a big swim into tonight’s final.
Qualifying second was Spartan Aquatics’ Kamal Muhammad, who dropped three tenths to touch in 1:45.60. Daniel Diehl, one of the top swimmers in the high school class of 2024, dropped 2.5 seconds to qualify third in 1:46.69.
Second seed Will Modglin of Zionsville Swim Club added 1.6 seconds from his lifetime best to qualify in 5th in 1:46.78.
Girls 50 Free
Meet Record: Abbigail Weitzeil (Canyons Aquatic Club) 21.49
Top 8 finishers:
- Anna Moesch (Unattached): 22.52
- Alex Shackell (CSC): 22.54
- Katherine Helms (MAKO): 22.62
- Annam Olasewere (Unnatched): 22.69
- Alexa Fulton (UMLY): 22.71
- Erika Pelaez (EA): 22.72
- Julia Dennis (SWAT): 22.75
- (Tie) Mackenzie Headley (FVYT)/Fresh Sathianchokwisan (BSS): 22.83
Anna Moesch dropped three tenths from her lifetime best to narrowly take the top seed heading into the finals of the 50 free with a 22.52. She touched just ahead of Carmel’s Alex Shackell, who also posted a lifetime best just minutes after qualifying for the A final of the 200 IM.
There also was a tie for 8th between Farmington Valley Y’s Mackenzie Headley and Bolles’ Fresh Sathianchokwisan as 22.83. A swim-off will be needed to determine who will take the final spot in tonight’s A final.
Boys 50 Free
Meet Record: Ryan Hoffer (Scottsdale Aquatic Club) 18.71
Top 8 finishers:
- Thomas Heilman (CAY): 19.96
- Drew Salls (BSS): 20.07
- Lucca Battaglini (Unattached): 20.11
- Tate Bacon (Unattached): 20.22
- Brendan Whitfield (LY): 20.23
- Maximillian Zum Tobel (SAS): 20.27
- Daniel Diehl (CUY): 20.29
- Andres Dupont Cabrera (BSS): 20.32
14 year old Thomas Heilman was the only swimmer under 20 seconds this morning, posting a new lifetime best of 19.96. He still sits two tenths off of Michael Andrew’s 13-14 NAG record of 19.76 from 2014.
The Bolles School Sharks will have two swimmers in tonight’s A final, with Drew Salls qualifying second in 20.07 and Andres Dupont Cabrera qualifying 8th in 20.32. Salls was the top seed coming into the race with a lifetime best of 19.94.
Daniel Diehl, the only other swimmer in the field who has ever been under 20 seconds, finished 7th in 20.29. His race came just minutes after he qualified for the A final in the 200 IM.
Girls 50 free swim-off
- Fresh Sathianchokwisan (BSS): 22.68
- Mackenzie Headley (FVYT): 22.74
Both girls swam faster than their prelim time, but it was Bolles’ Sathianchokwisan that came away with the win in 22.68. That time would have qualified her fourth for tonight’s final, though she will swim in lane 8.
Heilman is nuts. what a talent
Rip Cotter
He says he’s recovering from the flu. No longer contagious, but not back to full strength. Plans to swim a medley relay and then head home.
19.96 for heilman to take top seed tonight now just .2 off MA’s record
Why is it only girls swimming for the live stream?
You gotta click the little picture-in-picture box on the bottom right, that’s the boys stream.
I hit it by accident, would have had no idea otherwise.
Also the boys stream hasn’t worked at all for me – the one I wanna watch – but I can see the girls stream just running smooth as silk in the bottom corner of my screen. Dangit.
Steve Nolan responding to Steve Nolan…. SteveNolanception.
Oh wow, that livestream is terribly unwatchable, unfortunate 🙁
Live stream quality is awful. That being said, it seems the girls and boys heats are being run at the same time in the same pool (with the bulk heads splitting the pool). Is that common practice? Do the waves from one side impact the other?
At giant meets like this in short course, it’s pretty common in prelims.
Then they come together for a joint finals session.
If they weren’t doing it this way, prelims would run from 9AM until finals started.
In big LC meets at GAC, I’ve seen them start swimmers at both ends. They’ll wait until the swimmers are on the last 15-20 meters before starting the other end. It was funny when piano man hit a swimmer and a fast swimmer was starting on the other end.
Assume this is for 100s and 200s only right?!
Yes, no 50s or distance events. 😁
Those are called “chase starts” and are usually not used in championship meets.
Stream is straight shiiii as usual
Dear USA swimming. Your stream is bad and you should feel bad.
Not just bad, unwatchable. So disappointing. I thought for sure after the issues last night that it would have been addressed.