Professional Swim Sequence Indy, Day 2 Prelims: Katharine Berkoff Fires Meet Report in 50 Again
Katharine Berkoff was able to go for Thursday’s prelims session of the TYR Professional Swim Sequence in Indianapolis, popping a meet file within the girls’s 50 backstroke.
Her time of 27.05 downs the sequence mark of 27.13 set by Kylie Masse of Canada in Fort Lauderdale on Might 1, 2025. Berkoff’s time brushes inside a tenth of her American file, set final summer season, at 26.97.
All of the motion from prelims on Thursday:
Girls’s 100 butterfly
Gretchen Walsh received the morning off to a flyer with a time of 55.56 within the 100 fly, grabbing the highest seed by 2.5 seconds over her sister Alex Walsh, who went 58.08. Alex Shackell, swimming near house, was second in 58.63, with Claire Curzan’s 58.85 the one different sub-59 swim.
Fifth was Torri Huske in 59.08. then got here two ties. Tess Howley and Erika Pelaez have been stage on 59.44 for sixth. A swim-off is required to separate teenagers Charlotte Crush and Rylee Erisman, who tied for eighth in 59.63.
The B ultimate contains Liberty Clark in twelfth and Leah Shackley in thirteenth. Of be aware within the B ultimate is a finest time for 14-year-old Finola Whelehan, the TAC Titans swimmer going 59.69 to trim 1.5 seconds off her finest. She’s only a second off the NAG of Curzan, set in 2019 at 58.61.
Males’s 100 butterfly
Kaii Winkler led the way in which in 51.52, the German worldwide the one one to interrupt 52 and adopted by a parade of 10 52s. Dylan Carter was first amongst them in 52.23, .02 up on Ilya Kharun. Thomas Heilman and Ole Eidam tied for fourth in 52.54. Dare Rose was sixth in 52.74. Maxim Skazobtsov and Michael Andrew spherical out the highest eight.
In eleventh place was Caeleb Dressel, who went 52.98. He’ll swim within the B ultimate.
Girls’s 200 breaststroke
Kate Douglass led the way in which with a time of two:25.28, the meet and American file holder out in entrance by practically three seconds. Second place went to Alex Walsh, on the again finish of a double, in 2:27.99.
Aimee Canny had a uncommon swim that didn’t end in a South African file this week, due to the spectacular depth in that program’s breaststroke historical past. Canny was third in 2:28.64.
Elizabeth Nawrocki, Adalene Robillard and Eneli Jefimova all cracked 2:30 to achieve the A ultimate, joined by Katie Christopherson and Sophia Umstead.
Males’s 200 breaststroke
Luke Barr posted the quickest time within the morning at 2:11.98, a finest time for the 23-year-old and an enchancment by practically a second on the PB he set final month. Josh Bey was second, flying the flag of Indiana, in 2:12.61, with Jed Garner of Towson third in 2:12.92.
Charlie Egeland was third, joined within the 2:13s by Finnley Conklin, Denis Petrashov and Josh Matheny. Wilson York, a 16-year-old, rounded out the highest eight in 2:14.48.
Girls’s 50 backstroke
Katharine Berkoff’s was the swim of the morning, going 27.05 to immediately problem her year-old American file of 26.97. She’s the chief however solely by a tenth over Isabelle Stadden, whose spectacular kind continues. She set a finest time of 27.18 for second in what could be a two-horse race.
Veteran Olivia Smoliga was third in 27.78, two tenths up on Claire Curzan, who has a time of 27.26 in her previous. Olympian Rhyan White was fifth in 28.01, .02 up on Maggie Wanezek and .06 forward of Kaitlyn Owens. Leah Shackley’s 28.15 rounded out the highest eight.
No room for Erika Pelaez, who was ninth. Gretchen Walsh completed tenth in 28.24. Additionally within the B ultimate are Anna Peplowski in twelfth and Phoebe Bacon in thirteenth.
Males’s 50 backstroke
Recent off his win within the 100 again, comeback child Ryan Murphy led the way in which once more within the 50 again, going 24.75. He was .17 up on Quintin McCarthy of NC State, and his fellow Wolfpacker Kaii Winkler positioned third in 25.04.
Adam Chaney was fourth in 25.18. The A ultimate additionally contains Michael Andrew, David King, Grant Bochenski and Remi Fabiani, 25.36 required to get in.
Daniel Diehl and Aiden Hayes are among the many B finalists.
Girls’s 400 IM
Males’s 400 IM
