YMCA Nationals: Anna Moesch Shines Once more; Emily Thompson, Garrett Gould Earn Third Titles
At some point after transferring the YMCA Nationwide file within the 200 freestyle into 1:43 territory, Better Somerset County’s Anna Moesch continued to shine with one other record-breaking efficiency within the 50 free at YMCA Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., whereas teammates Emily Thompson and Garrett Gould every clinched their third particular person wins of the competitors.
Moesch clocked 21.73 to win the 50 free by a full second, and her time knocked 24-hundredths from the earlier nationwide file of 21.97 she set in 2022. This efficiency would have left her simply exterior of the A-final at this 12 months’s NCAA Championships within the occasion.
Thompson, already the winner of the 100 butterfly and 400 IM, produced a time of 1:56.41 for a three-second victory within the 200 IM. Later within the session, the workforce of Moesch, Thompson, Victoria Castro and Colleen Bull took the win within the 400 medley relay in 3:37.92, nearly one-and-a-half seconds away from the sector and solely 11-hundredths off the nationwide file of three:37.81 set by Center Tyger in 2015.
The opposite women’ occasion contested Friday was the five hundred free, with Spartanburg’s Hayden Penny grabbing the highest spot in 4:51.37.
For the boys, Gould was the one swimmer to interrupt 20 within the 50 free as he clocked 19.92. Schroeder’s Ethan Schutten used a blazing remaining 150 yards to take first within the 500 free, clocking 4:26.63, and Farmington Valley’s John Rusnock received the 200 IM in 1:46.44. transferring from sixth place on the midway level into the lead with a sensational breaststroke leg.
Schroeder’s workforce of Sam Lorenz, Jack Paull, Brody LePine and Jack Sullivan received the 400 medley relay in 3:13.14, setting a brand new championship file. Getting into the ultimate day of the meet, the Schroder boys have the lead with 270 factors, however Better Somerset (247.5) and Ridley Space (245) are simply behind. The ladies’ competitors, then again, is a runaway, with Better Somerset at 373.5 whereas Schroeder is nicely again at 297.
