2026 Pro Swim Series — Sacramento: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

2026 Sacramento Pro Swim Series

It is time for the ultimate prelims session of the 2026 Pro Swim Series cease in Sacramento, and this morning’s session will probably be quick with solely six particular person occasions (three per gender).

Event Lineup

• 50 Fly
• 100 Breast
• 100 Free

The session will kick off with the 50 butterfly occasions the place Taylor Ruck is the ladies’s high seed in 25.71, and 100 fly Olympic champion Torri Huske will probably be within the lane subsequent to her.

Dylan Carter is the lads’s high seed, however Sean Niewold, who has been having an distinctive meet, is the 2nd seed only a tenth again of Carter.

In the 100 breaststroke, Silje Slyngstadli would be the high seed on the ladies’s aspect and Josh Matheny is the highest seed on the lads’s.

The session will wrap up with the 100 freestyle. Torri Huske will race once more as the highest seed within the ladies’s race, whereas Ruck is the 2nd seed.

Henry McFadden is the highest seed within the males’s 100 freestyle, and he has already gained two occasions this meet and will probably be on the lookout for the highest seed tonight.

Women’s 50 Butterfly– Prelims

• World Record: 24.43 – Sarah Sjostroem, SWE (2014)
• American Record: 24.66 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
• U.S. Open Record: 24.66 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
• Pro Series Record: 24.93 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
• Junior World Record: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee, JPN (2017)

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Marie Wattel (SUN) — 26.43
2. Taylor Ruck (CAN) — 26.67
3. Kalia Antoniou (UN) — 26.79
4. Lismar Lyon (SOFL) — 26.80
5. Caroline Larsen (UOFL) — 26.82
6. Torri Huske (UN) — 26.99
7. Kasia Wasick (UN)/Katrin Otaegi (SRVA) — 27.24

Sun Devil Aquatics’ Marie Wattel earned the highest seed within the ladies’s 50 fly ultimate tonight, touching in 26.43 to swim the quickest prelims time by two tenths.

Wattel, who represents France internationally has a better of 25.33, which she swam in August of 2022.

Canada’s Taylor Ruck completed 2nd in 26.67, a couple of tenth forward of Kalia Antoniou, from Cyprus. Ruck’s lifetime finest is 25.71 from the 2025 World Championships in Singapore whereas Antoniou’s finest is 26.51 from the World University Games final summer time.

Torri Huske certified sixth in 26.99, greater than a second off her lifetime better of 25.33 fro June of 2023.

Men’s 50 Butterfly — Prelims

• World Record: 22.27 – Andrii Govorov, UKR (2018)
• American Record: 22.35 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2022)
• U.S. Open Record: 22.80 – Maxime Grousset, FRA (2026)
• Pro Series Record: 22.80 – Maxime Grousset, FRA (2026)
• Junior World Record: 22.96 – Diogo Matos Ribeiro, POR (2022)

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Sean Niewold (BAMA) — 22.94
2. Michael Andrew (MASA) — 23.37
3. Dylan Carter (AZFL) — 23.49
4. Santo Condorelli (FAST) — 23.61
5. Finlay Knox (CAN) — 24.03
6. Aiden Hayes (NCST) — 24.22
7. Brandon Ha (DART) — 24.54
8. Ryan Nordheim (UN) — 24.60

Sean Niewold continues to impress in Sacramento, setting a private finest time of twenty-two.94 to choose up the highest seed within the males’s 50 fly prelims. His earlier finest was 23.04 from the Pro Swim Series cease in Westmont. This swim will vault Niewold as much as be the third quickest performer on the earth this season.

Michael Andrew swam 23.37 to complete 2nd, slightly greater than half-a-second off his finest of twenty-two.79 from June of 2022.

Dylan Carter took third in 23.49, six tenths off his lifetime finest 22.85 from June of 2022. He was simply over a tenth forward of Santo Condorelli, who swam 23.61 to be the ultimate prelims swimmer below 24 seconds.

Women’s 100 Breaststroke — Prelims

• World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
• American Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
• U.S. Open Record: 1:04.45 – Jessica Hardy, USA (2009)
• Pro Series Record: 1:05.32 – Lilly King, USA (2022)
• Junior World Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Aliz Kalmar (FRES) — 1:09.46
2. Silje Slyngstadli (CAL) — 1:09.53
3. Lucy Thomas (ALTO) — 1:09.54
4. Addie Robillard (ALTO) — 1:09.63
5. Jenna Pulkkinen (FRES) — 1:09.84
6. Mikayla Tan (SRVA) — 1:09.94
7. Phoebe Bacon (WISC) — 1:10.80
8. Caroline Bricker (ALTO) — 1:10.88

The ladies’s 100 breaststroke prelims went to Fresno State’s Aliz Kalmar in 1:09.46 as six ladies got here in inside half-a-second.

Kalmar led the pack, splitting 23.42/37.04 so as to add rather less than two seconds from her lifetime finest 1:07.57, which she set in December on the U.S. Open.

Cal’s Silje Slyngstadli touched in 1:09.53, only one hundredth forward of Stanford’s Lucy Thomas, who swam 1:09.54. Slyngstadli break up 32.10/37.43 to return in about two seconds off her better of 1:07.53 from April of 2025. Thomas was 31.87/37.67 on her 50s, additionally including about two seconds from her better of 1:07.63, which she swam in August of 2022.

Addie Robillard, additionally from Stanford, swam 1:09.63 to complete 4th with the quickest closing 50 within the area. She opened in 32.94 and got here dwelling in 36.59 to complete only a second over her better of 1:08.79, which she swam in June of 2023.

Jenna Pulkkinen (1:09.84) and Mikayla Tan (1:09.94) additionally got here in below the 1:10 mark of their prelims swims to qualify fifth and sixth respectively.

Men’s 100 Breaststroke — Prelims

• World Record: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019)
• American Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew, USA (2021)
• U.S. Open Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew, USA (2021)
• Pro Series Record: 58.67 – Michael Andrew, USA (2021)
• Junior World Record: 58.94 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025)

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Michael Andrew (MASA) — 1:01.23
2. Yamato Okadome (CAL) — 1:01.45
3. Carles Coll Marti (ESP) — 1:01.47
4. Eli Martin (VT) — 1:01.54
5. Andrew Eubanks (TDPS) — 1:01.54
6. Tom Higdon (DART) — 1:02.01
7. Josh Matheny (ISC) — 1:02.08
8. Daniel Li (ROSE) — 1:02.31

Women’s 100 Freestyle — Prelims

• World Record: 51.71 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2017)
• American Record: 52.04 – Simone Manuel, USA (2019)
• U.S. Open Record: 52.43 – Torri Huske, USA (2025)
• Pro Series Record: 52.74 – Siobhan Haughey, HKG (2024)
• Junior World Record: 52.70 – Penny Oleksiak, CAN (2016)

Men’s 100 Freestyle — Prelims

• World Record: 46.40 – Zhanle Pan, CHN (2024)
• American Record: 46.81 – Jack Alexy, USA (2025)
• U.S. Open Record: 46.99 – Jack Alexy, USA (2025)
• Pro Series Record: 47.38 – Chris Guiliano, USA (2026)
• Junior World Record: 46.86 – David Popovici, ROU (2022)