2024 AUSTIN SECTIONALS
July 11-14
Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swim Middle
LCM (50 meters)
Outcomes on MeetMobile: “2024 ST TXLA SZ LC Sectional Champs”
Day 1 Recap
Day 2 Recap
Current College of Texas graduate Emma Sticklen scorched a lifetime better of 57.74 within the 100 butterfly to outduel latest NC State graduate Abby Arens (58.42) on Saturday night time at Austin Sectionals.
Sticklen shaved just a few hundredths off her previous-best 57.77 that she clocked to qualify for the Olympic Trials ultimate final month, the place she in the end positioned eighth in 58.44. The 22-year-old ranks simply outdoors of the highest 30 on this planet this season. Sticklen is coming off back-to-back NCAA titles within the 200-yard fly.
Arens has been as quick as 58.16 final June. They had been the one two swimmers beneath one minute within the ultimate.
Within the males’s 100 fly, rising Texas sophomore Will Modglin blasted a personal-best 52.53 to take the title over rising Texas junior Aleksej Filipovic (53.70). Modglin dropped greater than a second off his previous-best 53.39 from final July to hit a lifetime finest that might have positioned 14th at Olympic Trials final month, the place he was a two-time finalist at Trials within the 100 again and 200 IM.
Rising SMU junior Jack Forrest captured the 400 free crown in 3:56.65, lower than half a second forward of Texas A&M commit (’25) Bucky Gettys (3:57.02). Each swimmers set finest instances, with the 20-year-old Forrest going nearly two seconds sooner than he was at Trials final month. Gettys knocked nearly a tenth off his previous-best 3:57.11 from final August.
Current Texas A&M graduate Chloe Stepanek positioned 1st within the ladies’s 400 free (4:17.31), just a few seconds off her finest time from 2022 (4:13.68). She’s at present within the NCAA switch portal looking for a fifth-year vacation spot after putting fifteenth within the 100 free (54.63) and sixteenth within the 200 free (2:00.02) finally month’s Olympic Trials. Stepanek reached the wall just a few seconds forward of rising Texas senior Olivia McMurray (4:20.61), who owns a personal-best 4:13.18 from again in 2019.
Rising Texas sophomore Emma Kern emerged victorious within the ladies’s 200 again at 2:15.19, taking a pair tenths off her previous-best 2:15.40 from final month. The 19-year-old positioned sixth within the 100 again (1:00.98) at Olympic Trials final month.
Rising Alabama sophomore Kate Christian lower greater than a second off her earlier finest 200 again time (2:17.27 from 2021) on her approach to a runner-up end in 2:15.81.
Current Texas A&M graduate Thomas Shomper secured the lads’s 200 again win in 2:00.21, a pair hundredths sooner than her previous-best 2:00.23 that positioned twenty fifth at Trials. Rising Texas sophomore Nate Germonprez additionally registered a lifetime finest within the 200 again with a 2nd-place exhibiting in 2:02.19, greater than half a second sooner than her previous-best 2:02.92 from 2022.
The boys’s 100 breast got here all the way down to the wire between latest Texas A&M graduate Vincent Ribeiro (1:02.84) and former Texas swimmer Adam Fusti-Molnar (1:02.91). Ribeiro touched lower than a tenth faster than Fusti-Molnar to clinch the win, only a couple tenths off his personal-best 1:02.60 from April.
Current Texas A&M graduate Charlotte Longbottom (1:10.57) beat Desirae Mangaoang (1:11.16) and Lindsey Hosch (1:11.36) within the ladies’s 100 breast. Longbottom positioned forty first in 100 breast (1:10.52) at Trials final month, greater than a second off her personal-best 1:09.39 from 2022.
