Spectrum Aquatics Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming: Junior Pan Pacs Version

Brought to you by Spectrum Aquatics, a SwimSwam associate, our Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming collection celebrates swimmers of all ages and expertise stage with age group profiles of some latest outcomes.

Sydney Hardy, 15, Sarasota Sharks (FL): Hardy set new lifetime bests en path to a pair of particular person medals on the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Vancouver, claiming silver within the ladies’ 200 IM and bronze within the 400 IM. In the 200 IM, after setting a brand new PB of two:13.59 on the U.S. National Championships, Hardy bought right down to 2:13.44 at Junior Pan Pacs, transferring her as much as twenty second all-time within the ladies’ 15-16 age group and seventh amongst American 15-year-olds. In the 400 IM, Hardy shattered her finest time at Nationals, setting new PBs within the prelims (4:46.14) and ultimate (4:42.12), after which at Junior Pan Pacs, clocked 4:40.70 to win bronze forward of U.S. teammate Audrey Derivaux. That swim moved Hardy right into a tie for sixteenth all-time within the 15-16 age group and fifth amongst 15-year-olds. Hardy accomplished the complete medal set by profitable gold because the anchor leg of the U.S. ladies’ 4×200 free relay, whereas she additionally positioned eleventh within the 200 free (2:01.21) and 400 free (4:14.77) in Vancouver.

Davis Jackson, 17, TAC Titans (NC): Jackson produced the three-fastest 100 again swims of his profession at Junior Pan Pacs, breaking the 55-second barrier for the primary time. Entering the meet with a PB of 55.29 from June, the 17-year-old clocked 55.20 within the particular person ultimate, inserting 4th, after which adopted up later that very same session by main off the U.S. blended 4×100 medley relay in 54.85. That ranks him twenty sixth all-time within the boys’ 17-18 age group and helped the Americans win the silver medal. He gained one other relay silver on the finish of the meet within the boys’ 4×100 medley relay, main off in 55.13. In the 200 again, he gained gold in a time of 1:59.21, simply shy of the 1:58.67 PB he clocked en path to profitable the junior ultimate at Nationals.

Zara Kocak, 17, Excel Aquatics (SE): Entering 2026 with an extended course finest time of two:15 within the 200 fly, Kocak has had a giant summer time, going 2:10 or quicker 4 totally different instances within the occasion. After clocking 2:10.86 on the AP Race London International in May after which 2:10.85 on the Southeastern Championships in mid-July, she dropped a time of two:09.36 within the prelims at U.S. Nationals, rating sixth total and cracking the highest 20 all-time within the ladies’ 17-18 age group. In the junior ultimate, she was the runner-up to Derivaux in 2:10.07, incomes a spot on the Junior Pan Pac crew. At Junior Pan Pacs, regardless of racing out of the ‘B’ ultimate within the 200 fly (because the third-fastest American) and formally inserting eleventh in 2:12.61, Kocak gained bronze within the 100 fly in a time of 59.73, undercutting her earlier better of 59.78 from the AP Race London International meet. She additionally set a finest time of two:19.47 within the 200 IM, inserting 14th, and 57.78 within the 100 free, taking twenty fourth, at Junior Pan Pacs.

Ewan Dalrymple, 17, Columbia Swimming (SC): One of the few swimmers who raced at Nationals, Junior Nationals and Junior Pan Pacs, Dalrymple extremely set new finest instances in 10 totally different occasions throughout the three meets, highlighted by the 200 fly. The 17-year-old set a PB of 1:56.45 within the prelims at Nationals earlier than profitable the junior ultimate in 1:56.56, after which adopted up by profitable the Junior National title one week later in 1:55.65, transferring him as much as #5 all-time within the boys’ 17-18 age group. He capped it off by claiming gold at Junior Pan Pacs in 1:56.41. In the 100 fly, he broke 54 seconds for the primary time within the Nationals prelims (53.91) and went quicker in each the junior ultimate there (53.89) and Junior National ultimate (53.83), inserting tenth total. Dalrymple gained bronze at Junior Nationals within the 400 IM (4:21.17), and likewise set finest instances within the 100 again (56.60), 200 again (2:00.64) and 50 fly (25.24), the latter coming in a time trial. At Junior Pan Pacs, along with his victory within the 200 fly, he established new finest instances within the 100 free (53.24), 50 again (26.59) and 200 IM (2:04.61). Another finest time got here within the 400 free at Nationals in 3:57.74, his first time below the 4:00 barrier.

Vivienne Zangaro, 17, Long Island Aquatic Club (MR): Zangaro gained gold at Junior Pan Pacs within the ladies’ 400 free, opening up a small hole on Japan’s Haruno Tanimoto on the again half to the touch first in a time of 4:09.81, dipping below her earlier better of 4:10.31 set en path to a Third-place end within the junior ultimate at U.S. Nationals. The Junior Pan Pac ultimate truly got here on her seventeenth birthday, however because of the guidelines for NAG report rankings making use of to the beginning date of the competitors, Zangaro’s swim formally ranks her twenty fourth all-time within the ladies’ 15-16 age group. She additionally gained gold because the lead-off swimmer on the U.S. ladies’ 4×200 free relay (2:00.70), and took 4th individually within the 200 free (2:00.74) and 800 free (8:40.79). Like Dalrymple, she additionally raced at Nationals, Junior Nationals and Junior Pan Pacs. At Junior Nats, she was the runner-up within the 800 free in a lifetime better of 8:39.42, rating 72nd all-time within the 15-16 age group.

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