By Claire Wong on SwimSwam
2025 Speedo Winter Junior Championships – West
December 10 – 13, 2025
Lee & Joe Jamil Texas Swimming Middle, Austin, Texas
SCY (25 Yards)
Meet Central
Psych Sheets
Reside Outcomes – additionally accessible on Meet Cellular: “2025 West Speedo Winter Juniors”
Reside Recaps
Prelims: Day 2 | Day 3
Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Day 3 Prelim Warmth Sheet – Ladies
Day 3 Prelim Warmth Sheet – Boys
Night time 3 of Winter Juniors – West was crammed with thrilling occasions from high swimmers, a lot of which now we have reported on in their very own articles; nevertheless, we’d additionally like to focus on some swims that we felt had been spectacular however could have snuck underneath the radar.
Within the 400 IM, Maya Hetland received the comfort closing in a time of 4:13.29. The ASU commit, who represents Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, dropped 5.15 seconds from prelims and a complete of 8.5 seconds on the day, as her earlier finest sat at 4:21.79—set at Winter Juniors final yr.
On the lads’s aspect, 18-year-old Dan Ginaitis, a West Virginia College commit for fall of 2026, had a standout swim to win the C-final. Ginaitis posted a time of three:50.56 to win his warmth by over a second and shave 4.17 seconds from his prelims time, which was a brand new PB. Coming into this meet, Ginaitis had solely been as quick as 3:56.99, a time he swam at NCSAs again in March of this yr.
Yury Kuzmenko and Aidan Villars each posted finest occasions within the 100 fly to win their respective finals. Kuzmenko, who’s headed to Princeton subsequent fall, swam a 1.31 second PB of 47.18 en path to his win. Villars in the meantime, had an enormous breakout swim within the C-final, posting a 46.77. That point, a finest by 1.06 seconds, was the 4th general quickest time of the evening.
Micah Tennison and Yuri Plaksin each broke notable limitations within the 200 free to position sixth and seventh, respectively, within the 200 free. Tennison, a Texas A&M commit, got here into the meet with a PB of 1:37.43. This morning, he broke each the 1:37 and 1:36 barrier for the primary time with a 1.52 second drop. He shaved one other tenth off in finals tonight for a closing time of 1:35.81. Plaksin additionally got here into the meet with a finest within the 1:37 vary, and he lowered it by 1.24 seconds over the day to interrupt that barrier, coming in at 1:36.52.
Within the 100 breast, 14-year-old Lexie D’Amico received the B-final with an unbelievable time of 1:00.74. That strikes her as much as #8 all time within the 13-14 age group, and marked a 1.07 second PB. This swim comes not lengthy after a formidable exhibiting at Sectionals again in July, the place she swam a 1:10.66 within the lengthy course version of this occasion.
Cal commit Jordan Ragland accomplished the 100 breast/100 again double with a brand new PB within the former. Within the 100 breast, he took 1.59 seconds off his finest time coming into the meet for sixth general (54.07). Within the 100 again, he posted a 47.45 for fifth, which was barely off the PB he set in prelims of 46.56. Regardless, each occasions had been underneath his finest coming into the meet (47.83).
Within the 200 free relay, the quickest break up of the evening got here from Orinda Aquatics’ Stella Canoles. She anchored the workforce to a tenth place end in a break up of twenty-two.03, and was the only swimmer underneath 22.2 within the discipline. Canoles took fifth within the 50 free earlier within the meet with a PB of twenty-two.43.
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