Wolfpack Closes U.S. National Championships with Three Medals, National Title, & High Point Award

IRVINE, CA. – The choose members of the Wolfpack squad wrap up their outing west after a 5 day competitors within the U.S. National Swimming Championships in Irvine California. The Pack totaled 34 finals appearances, captured three medals, topped one U.S. National Champion, and continued to rewrite this system’s lengthy course document e book with a number of private bests and top-five all-time performances. 

Max Carlsen opened the meet with a fifth place end within the 1,500 freestyle, touching the wall in a private greatest time of 15:14.76. The swim marked his quickest efficiency within the occasion and was his first time competing within the 1,500 freestyle for the reason that 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

Erika Pelaez continued her document breaking season by reducing her personal faculty document twice within the 200 freestyle. She first set a brand new mark of 1:58.22 in the course of the prelims earlier than bettering it once more within the finals with a time of 1:58.05 to complete seventh total. Pelaez returned to the rostrum on day three, capturing the bronze medal within the 100 butterfly. Her private greatest swim earned her first medal of the championship whereas shifting her into fourth place all-time in program historical past within the occasion’s LCM rankings. Pelaez closed out an impressive week by being named the recipient of the High Point Award, offered to the male or feminine athlete who amassed probably the most factors all through the championship. The honor capped a outstanding meet that included two faculty information, a bronze medal, and one of many prime particular person performances of the competitors.

Quintin McCarty as soon as once more proved why he is without doubt one of the nation’s prime backstrokers. After recording the quickest prelims time to earn the highest seed, McCarty efficiently defended his U.S. National Championship within the 50 backstroke. He touched first in 24.73 to assert the gold medal and grow to be a two-time U.S. National Champion within the occasion. McCarty added one other medal to his assortment on the ultimate day, incomes silver within the 50 freestyle with a time of 21.75. The runner-up end secured his second medal of the championship.

Jerry Fox capped off the opening day with a fifth place end within the 100 freestyle. His prelims swim of 48.25 stands because the second quickest time in program historical past and secured his place within the championship last.

In the boys’s 200 backstroke, Gavin Keogh recorded a career-best swim of 1:57.68 to complete fourth total. The efficiency moved him into fourth place all-time in this system’s lengthy course meters (LCM) document e book.

Incoming freshman Emma Cigna made an instantaneous influence by incomes a second swim within the 200 butterfly after posting a prelims time of two:12.47. The efficiency would rank because the second quickest time in program historical past, and Cigna went on to complete twentieth total within the occasion. Fellow freshman Emerson Callis additionally delivered a robust efficiency within the occasion, inserting twenty second with a time of two:12.75. Her swim would rank because the third-fastest efficiency in program historical past, trailing solely Pelaez and Cigna.

Medal Tally: 
GOLD | Quintin McCarty | 50 backstroke LCM (24.73)
SILVER | Quintin McCarty | 50 freestyle LCM (21.75)
BRONZE | Erika Pelaez | 100 butterfly LCM (58.43)

School Records: 

Erika Pelaez | 200 freestyle | 1:58.22

Erika Pelaez | 200 freestyle | 1:58.05

Top- 24 Finishers: 

1st place | Quintin McCarty | 50 backstroke | 24.73

2nd place | Quintin McCarty | 50 freestyle | 21.75

third place | Erika Pelaez | 100 butterfly | 58.43 (Personal Best)(4th quickest in program historical past)

4th place | Erika Pelaez | 50 backstroke | 28.06

4th place | Gavin Keogh | 200 backstroke | 1:57.68 (Personal Best)(4th quickest in program historical past)

fifth place | Max Carlsen | 1500 freestyle  | 15:14.76 (Personal Best)

fifth place | Jerry Fox | 100 freestyle | 48.29 

sixth place | Kennedy Noble | 50 backstroke | 28.19

sixth place | Kennedy Noble | 100 backstroke | 59.81

seventh place | Erika Pelaez | 100 freestyle | 54.33

seventh place | Erika Pelaez | 200 freestyle | 1:58.05 (School Record)

seventh place | Kennedy Noble | 200 backstroke | 2:10.54

eighth place | Max Carlsen | 800 freestyle | 7:58.96

eighth place | Max Carlsen | 400 freestyle | 3:54.97

eighth place | Erika Pelaez | 100 backstroke | 59.97

ninth place | Gavin Keogh | 100 backstroke | 54.36

eleventh place | Lily Christianson | 50 freestyle | 25.11

eleventh place | Jerry Fox | 50 freestyle | 22.19

eleventh place | Daniel Diehl | 100 backstroke | 54.77

twelfth place | Erika Pelaez | 50 freestyle | 25.13

twelfth place | Gavin Keogh | 50 backstroke | 25.56

twelfth place | Max Buff | 200 backstroke | 2:00.47

thirteenth place | Lily Christianson | 50 butterfly | 26.84

14th place | Ian Stutts | 200 IM | 2:01.06

14th place | Wells Walker | 50 butterfly | 23.82

14th place | Wells Walker | 50 freestyle | 22.41

sixteenth place | Lily King | 100 freestyle | 55.74

twentieth place | Emma Cigna | 200 butterfly | 2:12.47 (2nd quickest time in program historical past)

twenty first place | Emerson Callis | 200 IM | 2:15.79

twenty second place | Emerson Callis | 200 butterfly | 2:12.75

twenty second place | Emma Cigna | 400 IM | 4:46.21

twenty third place | Emma Cigna | 200 IM | 2:15.79

twenty fourth place | Emerson Callis | 400 IM | 4:47.47

twenty fourth place | Emerson Callis | 400 freestyle | 4:17.97

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