2025 Mid States All-Star Championships
- January 4-5, 2025
- Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Meet Results
Team Indiana defended home turf over a crew of their midwestern neighbors that participated in the 2025 Mid States All Star Championships two weeks ago.
The meet featured teams of 14 & under swimmers from Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. The Indiana Swimming LSC has long been known for organizing these all-star team based competitions, and the 2025 meet attracted some of the top youth talent from across the region.
Final Team Scores:
- Team Indiana: 4327
- Team Ohio: 3282
- Team Minnesota: 2159
- Team Michigan: 2093.5
- Team Kentucky: 1943.5
- Team Wisconsin: 1427
The top scorers for Indiana included Kate Allen, who scored 120 individual points with 6 individual event wins in the 11-12 age group, which included best times in the 50 fly (27.15) and 200 IM (2:08.81) – the latter being a 3.5 second improvement on her best time.
On the boys’ side, Team Minnesota had many of the individual headlines, though they only finished 4th in boys’ point scoring as a team. Kai Joyner was the other perfect scorer with 120 points in the boys’ 13-14 age group, including a personal best of 1:51.67 in the 200 IM.
That swim for Joyner moves him into the top 50 all-time in age group history and broke the 2017 LSC Record set by Hayden Zheng by more than a second. It also ranks him 5th nationally midway through the 2024-2025 season.
His Team Minnesota, and Rochester Swim Club, teammate Elliot Leasure won the 200 back (1:50.05) and 200 fly (1:53.73), in spite of only being 13 competing in the 13-14 age group. Both swims came in new lifetime bests and lead the nation among 13-year-olds this season, with the 200 back being 2.37 seconds clear of the next-best at that age and into the 13-14 age group top 100 all-time
Other Highlight Performances
- Lana Shapero won the girls’ 13-14 200 fly in 2:03.87, knocking three-quarters of a second off her previous lifetime best.
- Gabriel Brown from Indiana grabbed three wins in the 10 & under age group, including a three second drop in the 200 IM (2:22.36) and a three-tenths drop in the 100 free (59.16).
Fun Flavor
The meet featured a rubber doc drop, where rubber ducks were dropped off the 10-meter platform. Swimmers who caught them won prizes.
The duck drop is awesome. Add it to college as a fourth diving event – one point per duck. Water polo rules for contract.
Mid States was an awesome event even with the weather causing some audibles. I’m so proud of Gabriel and his Indiana teammates for bringing the title back home 🙂