With so many different meets across the country attracting the best junior swimmers in America, it’s been difficult to keep track of all of the big swims. We’ve compiled a big listing of all of the top 8 swims from the last two weekends to get a better picture of how 18 & unders in the U.S. fared across the various big meets nationwide.
Below are times in the USA Swimming database from the following meets:
US Open
Junior Nationals
NCSAs
ISCAs
YNats
Futures
This is a lot of data, so this post is dedicated to the top junior boys. Keep in mind, too, that there may have been errors or omissions from the USA Swimming databases, and we’re only human, so please leave any corrections in the comments.
Oh You CAN compare him to Juniors as he will be swimming at Junior Worlds along with many other fast “juniors” who aren’t on this list because they have been racing the last couple of weeks because they are preparing for Junior Worlds. Should make for a very good show. I hope all of the boys from USA are impressive… they will have plenty of competition!
I go back and forth on this. He has kinda plateaued in the last year or two, but that still puts him as the US’s best junior swimmer. And given that he’s still so young, you’d assume he’ll have at least another set of time drops…unless his unique training style means he’s peaked, or something. (Unlikely, but possible.)
Whatever ya wanna say about the kid, he’s still pretty good and however it goes over the next decade, it’s gonna be compelling as hell.
Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.
Pretty sure Iida went that at NCSA
200 IM 2:01.8
Thanks, fixed it.
Josh Bottleberge was 1:02.4 in the 100 breast at US open
Dylab– that was actually a swim from US Nationals (AKA Worlds Trials). This list is only for meets that happened in the last two weeks.
Oh that’s the meet I was talking about. Thought you guys were including those results as well my bad
Perception changes everything.
MA a good .6 ahead in 50 free and 1 breast. Impressive.
But he’s a professional so everything’s different, can’t compare to juniors anymore.
Perception.
Oh You CAN compare him to Juniors as he will be swimming at Junior Worlds along with many other fast “juniors” who aren’t on this list because they have been racing the last couple of weeks because they are preparing for Junior Worlds. Should make for a very good show. I hope all of the boys from USA are impressive… they will have plenty of competition!
Still impressive
I go back and forth on this. He has kinda plateaued in the last year or two, but that still puts him as the US’s best junior swimmer. And given that he’s still so young, you’d assume he’ll have at least another set of time drops…unless his unique training style means he’s peaked, or something. (Unlikely, but possible.)
Whatever ya wanna say about the kid, he’s still pretty good and however it goes over the next decade, it’s gonna be compelling as hell.