Reece Whitley and Jenny Thompson Race As 10 Records Fall on Day 2 of Masters Nationals

US Masters 2026 Spring Nationals

The 2026 U.S. Masters Spring Nationals are in full swing in Greensboro and day two of the meet noticed the Masters Nationals debut of former Cal swimmer Reece Whitley together with 10 new meet data.

Whitley graduated from Cal in 2023 after a really profitable profession in swimming that noticed him break 23 NAG data, and earn two World Junior silver medals. His NCAA profession noticed him qualify for the ‘A’ finals in each breaststroke occasions seven occasions throughout his 4 NCAA Championship meets.

On Friday, Whitley swam the boys’s age 25-29 100 yard breaststroke, successful the occasion in 52.28. He was seven tenths off the Masters Record time of 51.51 set by Benjamin Cono in 2023.

Jenny Thompson made her debut on Friday as effectively, racing the 50 fly and the 100 free within the ladies’s 50-54 age group. Thompson swam 25.71 within the 50 fly and 53.37 within the 100 freestyle. She simply missed her personal 100 freestyle file of 52.00 from 2023 and was one hundredth off the 50 fly file of 25.70 set by Leslie Livingston in 2013.

While Thompson and Whitley didn’t set any data, there have been a lot of different data set on day two.

Records Set on Day Two

Men’s 100 Breaststroke

• 75-79: Robert Wright (MOVY Masters) — Wright swam 1:15.21 to take only one hundredth off the previous file of 1:15.22 set by Herbie Kerns in 2025.

Women’s 200 Backstroke

• 75-79: Cecilia McCloskey (Swim Fort Lauderdale) — The ladies’s 200 backstroke 75-79 age group occasion went to Cecilia McCloskey in 2:45.41. She took a second off her personal file of two:46.57 from final 12 months.

Men’s 200 Backstroke

• 75-79: Larry Day (Sarasota Sharks Masters) — Day received the boys’s 75-79 200 backstroke in 2:22.98. He took virtually 4 seconds off his personal file time of two:26.55 from March.

Women’s 50 Butterfly

• 70-74: Penny Noyes (Ensworth Aquatics Masters) — Noyes swam 30.25 within the ladies’s 70-74 age group 50 yard butterfly. This broke her personal file of 30.27 from 2025 by two-hundredths.

Men’s 50 Butterfly

• 18-24: Joseph Gurski (Nashville Aquatic Club) — Gurski received the 18-24 age 50 butterfly in 21.09 to take 4 hundredths off Henrik Lindau‘s 2015 file time of 21.13.
• 45-49: Kevin Doak (Michigan Masters) – The males’s 50 butterfly went to Kevin Doak in 22.32, three tenths quicker than the previous file time of twenty-two.67 from 2008.

Women’s 200 IM

• 95-99: Barbara Eisele (Greenville Splash) — Eisele swam 8:34.31 within the ladies’s age 95-99 200 yard IM. This swim took 4 seconds off her personal file of 8:38.32 from October of 2025.

Men’s 200 IM

• 75-79: Larry Day (Sarasota Sharks Masters) — Day picked up his 2nd file of the day within the males’s 200 IM, swimming 2:26.39. He broke his personal file of two:32.46 from March by 4 seconds.

Men’s 100 Freestyle

• 75-79: Robert Wilson (New Mexico Masters Swimming) — Wilson received the boys’s 100 freestyle in 58.38, slicing three tenths off the 58.68 from 2009.

Mixed 200 Medley Relay

There was additionally one file set on day one which was not reported. Heidi George, who swims for Pacific LMSC broke the ladies’s 50-54 1000 yard freestyle file within the preliminary break up of her 1650 free file. She swam 10:35.28 to take three seconds off her former file time of 10:38.07 from January.