Mikayla Tan, Michael Powell, Katrin Otaegi Nab Wins on Day 3 of Walnut Sectionals

2026 Walnut Speedo Sectionals

• July 16-19, 2026
• Walnut — CA
• LCM (50 Meters)
• Live Results Available on Meet Mobile: “2026 CA/NV Summer Speedo Sectionals @ BREA -“
• Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 

Day three of the Walnut Speedo Sectionals delivered some strong performances. Leading the best way had been a number of age-group standouts, amongst them Mikayla Tan, Michael Powell, and Katrin Otaegi.

Tan, 16, competed in a pair of occasions on day three, profitable one and ending third within the different. Her win got here within the girls’s 100 breast, surging to a 1:09.29, greater than two and a half seconds sooner than the remainder of the sector. That time nonetheless sits over a second off of her finest time of 1:08.16 from the Pro Swim Series in Sacramento in May. That time ties her for ninth all-time within the 15-16 nationwide age-group rankings.

She additionally raced the 100 fly, ending third in 1:02.38, simply over a second off of winner Katrin Otaegi, who managed to decrease her profession finest from 1:01.35 on the Sacramento Pro Series in May. Otaegi, a fellow 16-year-old, managed to outlast University of Denver swimmer Julia Saxman with an enormous last 50 of 32.99 to carry off Saxman’s efforts in 1:01.50.

One of the highest performances of the day on the boys’s facet got here by the hands of sophistication of 2027 Virginia commit Michael Powell, who swam to a serious profession finest within the 400 free to take the win within the lone sub-4:00 time of three:58.13. Powell had beforehand swum a lifetime finest within the prelims of 4:00.49, which on the time marked a serious drop from his former prime time on the Speedo Junior National Championships in August of final 12 months, when he clocked a 4:04.38. Powell was adopted carefully by Sullivan Benes, the 15-year-old from Desert Storm Swimming, clocking 4:00.45, a close to three-second time drop in his personal proper from his earlier better of 4:03.48 from the Western Zone Senior Championships final July.

Stanford’s Daniel Li took the win within the males’s 100 breast, touching in the one swim beneath 1:02 within the last in 1:00.57, additionally discovered himself swimming a profession finest in Walnut, slicing over a second off of his former finest time of 1:01.57 from the Sacramento Pro Series only a few months in the past.

Other Event Winners:

• Men’s 100 Fly: Hamish McLellan (TOPS) – 53.88
• Women’s 400 Free: Alyssa Ton (NOVA) – 4:19.27
• Women’s 200 Back: Lindsay Barnes (TROJ) – 2:12.55
• Men’s 200 Back: Hayden Kwan (ALTO) – 2:02.81
• Women’s 400 Free Relay: Irvine Novaquatics – 3:51.67
• males’s 400 Free Relays: Alto Swim Club – 3:26.59