Shaine Casas Swims 50.89 100 Fly on Evening 3 of Austin Sectionals

2026 Speedo Sectionals – Austin

• July 15-19, 2026
• Austin, Texas
• Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center
• LCM (50 meters)
• Results on Meet Mobile: “2026 ST TXLA SZ LC Sectional Champs”
• Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2

Day three of the Speedo Sectionals meet wrapped up on Friday, and Shaine Casas led the Texas professional group with an enormous swim within the males’s 100 fly ultimate, the final occasion of the session.

Casas, who received the 50 and 100 again on the primary two days of the meet, wrapped up the session with the 100 fly win. He stopped the clock in 50.89 to the touch about three seconds forward of Aggie Swim Club’s Logan Brown, who swam a private finest 54.05 to complete 2nd.

Casas break up 23.42/27.47 to set his third quickest 100 fly time this season. He has solely been quicker in prelims and finals on the 2025 U.S. Open Championships in December, when he set his lifetime finest of fifty.24, which at the moment ranks 2nd on this planet this season. Only six different individuals have been quicker than Casas’ 50.89 this season.

On prime of Casas, the remainder of the Texas professional group additionally had sturdy performances. Regan Smith earned her third occasion win of the meet, swimming 2:06.14 to complete greater than 10 seconds forward of 2nd place finisher Halina Panczyszyn‘s 2:16.81.

Smith break up 29.43/31.86/32.56/32.29, coming residence nearly two seconds quicker than her morning break up of 34.26 on the ultimate 50. Her season finest time stands at 2:04.85 from the Longhorn Elite Invite in June, which is the third quickest time on this planet this season.

In the 50 freestyle, Simone Manuel swam 24.67 to set the highest time by about eight tenths over SMU’s Maddy Parker. This was Manuel’s 2nd quickest efficiency this season within the occasion, solely behind the 24.42 she set on the U.S. Open Championships in December.

This was additionally Manuel’s third occasion win of the meet after she set a brand new season finest to win the 100 free on day one, and completed simply seven hundredths forward of Erin Gemmell within the 200 free on day 2.

Chris Guiliano received the boys’s 50 freestyle, stopping the clock in 22.12, 4 tenths quicker than Mark Nikolaev‘s 22.58 in 2nd place.

Guiliano’s private and season finest stands on the 21.43 he swam on the Pro Swim Series in Westmont, which at the moment ranks 4th on this planet this season.

Other Event Winners

• Jillian Cox received the ladies’s 400 freestyle in 4:08.98, ending practically 10 seconds forward of Hayen Miller, from Cypress Fairbanks, who touched in 4:18.66 for 2nd. This was a brand new season finest for Cox and was nearly two seconds off her lifetime better of 4:06.31 from June of 2024.
• The males’s 400 free was one of many closest races of the session. Rex Maurer got here out on prime after trailing Carson Foster via the primary 250 meters. Maurer break up 1:50.90/1:56.54 to cease the clock in a season finest 3:47.44, whereas Foster swam 1:50.53/1:58.53 to swim 3:49.06 in 2nd.
• New Texas professional Jack Aikins received the boys’s 200 backstroke in 2:01.53. This was a couple of second-and-a-half off the two:00.16 he swam on the Longhorn Elite Invite at first of June, however nonetheless received the occasion by three seconds over SMU’s Asher Good, who swam 2:04.50.
• Hannah O’Leary, who simply wrapped up her junior season at Texas A&M, received the 100 breast in an enormous private finest 1:10.24, taking greater than a second off the 1:12.06 she swam final month.
• University of Texas swimmers took the opposite two occasions. Campbell McKean, who’s a rising sophomore, swam 59.93 to win the boys’s 100 breaststroke, his 2nd quickest efficiency this season. He completed about three tenths forward of Luka Mladenovic‘s 1:00.22.
• Rising Texas junior Lillie Nesty received the 100 fly in a private finest 59.32. This swim marked her first ever time below 1:00 within the occasion, taking practically a second off her pre-meet better of 1:00.21, which she set in July of 2025.