Audrey Derivaux Clears 1:00 100 Back Barrier On Day 2 Of Greensboro Futures

By Will Baxley on SwimSwam

2025 Greensboro Futures

Greensboro Aquatic Heart, Greensboro, NC
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“2025 USA Swimming Futures – Greensboro” on Meet Cell
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We’re now midway by the U.S. Futures championships, and down in North Carolina, evening two proved to be simply as fast as evening one.

Age group sensation Audrey Derivaux took the largest highlight of the session. The 15-year-old threw down a 59.83 within the 100 backstroke to take the win by two seconds. Derivaux joins Rylee Erisman as the one 15-16 American ladies below the 1:00 barrier this season.

This marks a powerful drop for the New Jersey native, bettering her 1:00.94 greatest from June. Nevertheless, it’s not totally surprising, seeing as Derivaux’s 200 greatest stands at 2:06.68. This bodes nicely for some other backstroke races Derivaux may swim this week, although her title will not be on the psych sheet, so it’s not clear what her line-up is.

Derivaux was not the one occasion winner to crack an enormous barrier in Greensboro. Outdated Dominion College’s Zach Redding raced to a 49.90 within the 100 free earlier within the session, his first time below the coveted mark.

The College of Kentucky males proved they’ve been placing within the work this summer season with one other pair of victories tonight. First, Levi Sandidge adopted up his mile win yesterday with a 4:16.88 400 IM victory. Then, fellow Wildcat Devin Naoroz hit angel numbers within the 100 again en path to a 55.22 victory. This marks an unbelievable private greatest for Naoroz, undercutting the 55.93 he turned in at U.S. Nationals by almost three quarters of a second.

One other head-turning swim got here from NCAP’s Sadie Buckley within the 400 IM. Buckley busted out a 4:45.21 for a decisive win, taking pictures her as much as #4 within the 15-16 rankings this season. It additionally marks a lifetime greatest by 4 seconds.

Different Occasion Winners

College of South Carolina’s Amy Riordan and TAC’s Reina Liu went 1-2 within the 200 free on day 1, and so they adopted it up with one other 1-2 within the 100 free. Riordan stopped the clock in 55.70, a brand new greatest by two tenths.
Liu later joined the Whelehan sisters – Meredith, Sloane, and Finola – for a dominant 800 free victory. The foursome put collectively an 8:16.15 effort to win by over eight seconds
Membership swimmers acquired one of the best of the 50 fly in each genders. MAC’s Emma Richardson took the ladies’s occasion in 26.93, whereas Langston Duncan of Eagle Swim Staff got here out on high of the boys’s area. This was a very swift swim for Duncan, a Northwestern commit, bringing his pb from 24.62 to 24.25
NCAP boys made it two for 2 on relays, posting a 7:37.62 to take the 800 free relay