Regan Smith Closes Austin Sectionals With Wins in 200 IM (2:11.17) and 50 Fly (26.04)

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 3

The Speedo Sectionals in Austin have formally come to an in depth, and the ultimate day of motion was spearheaded by Regan Smith, who picked up one other two wins in every of the ultimate two ladies’s occasions of the meet.

Day 4 featured solely the boys’s and girls’s 200 IM and 50 butterfly. And on the ladies’s aspect, the commonality between the 2 was the highest finisher.

Smith first captured the 200 IM in 2:11.17, greater than eight seconds faster than the remainder of the sphere. That time nonetheless sits nicely off her season finest of two:09.65 from the Longhorn Elite Invite in June, which slots her in because the thirteenth quickest performer on the planet this season.

Directly after that, she was again on the blocks for the finals of the 50 fly, the place as soon as once more, she would emerge because the winner, this time by a full second in 26.04. Nobody else within the discipline was in a position to sustain with Smith, as Avery Littlefield was the following closest finisher in 27.04.

The males’s outcomes had some extra selection, because the 200 IM was gained by Shaine Casas, who continued his sturdy exhibiting in house water along with his 1:57.63. This time is simply greater than a second slower than the time that he went in June on the Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invite in 1:56.42, a time that also ranks him sixth on the planet for the season.

Just behind Casas in that 200 IM had been a slew of Longhorns, each previous and current; Carson Foster completed runner-up, simply over a second off of Casas’ successful time in 1:58.88. Then got here a trio of present Texas swimmers in Rex Maurer (1:59.59), Michigan switch Luka Mladenovic (2:03.18), and Will Modglin (2:03.54).

The closing occasion of the meet, the boys’s 50 fly, was captured by Garrett Gould in 24.01, a brand new lifetime finest, topping his former finest time from June of 2024 of 24.04 by simply three hundredths of a second. In that successful effort, Gould simply edged out Mark Nikolaev and his 24,16 efficiency, as every of the highest 4 swimmers within the closing managed to clock instances underneath 25 seconds.