Karina Plaza

Five Storylines To Watch At The 2025 Winter Junior Championships – East

Already the owner of the girls’ 15-16 NAG in the 100 free, Rylee Erisman has a great chance of erasing Claire Curzan’s longstanding 50 free mark this week.

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2025 USA Swimming Summer Junior Nationals: Day 5 Finals Recap

Julie Mishler fired off a new Championship Record in the girls’ 50 freestyle (25.00) on the final night of U.S. Junior Nationals in Irvine.

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2025 USA Swimming Summer Junior Nationals: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

15-year-old Gabi Brito of Beach Cities Swimming is expected to be one of the top contenders in the girls’ 100 butterfly final.

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The Legacy of Lilly King, and What Comes Next for United States Breaststrokers

We are in the final month of the storied “Lilly King Breaststroke Era” in the United States and new swimmers are rising to take her place.

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Rising National Names To Watch For This Olympic Cycle – Women

With 2025 U.S. Nationals on the horizon, here are some rising U.S. women to watch during this Olympic cycle, the first typical quad since the lead up to 2016.

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Mike Rice Cracks Top 10 All-Time In 15-16 100 Free (43.16) To Close Best of the South Meet

Rice set a lifetime best of 43.16 in the 100 free to launch himself into 10th all-time in the boys’ 15-16 age group.

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Spectrum Aquatics Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming: 2/22/2025

Our Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming series celebrates swimmers of every age and experience level with age group profiles of some recent results.

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Samuel Wooten Sets 1650 LSC Record, Reina Liu Triples On Final Night of NC Age Group Champs

Wooten dropped more than 30 seconds off his personal best time in the 1650 free to climb to #12 all-time in the boys’ 13-14 age group.

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Karina Plaza Breaks 200 Breaststroke NAG Record, 1 Night After Taking Down 100 Yard Mark

SwimMAC Carolina’s Karina Plaza has broken her second National Age Group Record in as many nights as the North Carolina Age Group Championships.

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Karina Plaza Becomes Youngest Female in History To Break 1:00 in the 100 Breaststroke (59.94)

With this blistering-fast swim of 59.94, Plaza broke Alexis Wenger’s national age group record in the 100-yard breaststroke

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14-Year Old Samuel Wooten Knocks Five Seconds Off North Carolina Age Group Record in 1000 Free

Samuel Wooten dropped almost 27 seconds off his lifetime best in the 1000 free on Thursday, moving into the all-time top 10 in age group history.

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Myers Park Girls, Cardinal Gibbons Boys Win 2025 NCHSAA 4A State Titles

This is the Myers Park girls’ fourth straight North Carolina 4A State Championships and the Cardinal Gibbons’ boys first since 2013.

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SwimMAC 13-14s Crush National Age Group Relay Record by 4 Seconds

The team of Karina Plaza, Scott Williams, Emma Grace Richardson, and Eli Sweet took more than four seconds off a mixed 400 medley national age group record last weekend.

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2024 Winter Junior Championships – East: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

Charlotte Crush leads the girls’ 200 back by over three seconds after becoming the #2 performer in the 17-18 age group this morning.

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2024 Winter Juniors – East: Swims You May Have Missed on Day 2

With our live recap of finals completed, this post highlights some of the great performances from the day that may have went unmentioned on the recap.

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