Dillon Mezey’s information, Josie Dolan’s breakthrough spotlight day two of the 2026 U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships

BOISE, Idaho – More nationwide champions have been topped because the motion continued on day two of the 2026 U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships on the Idaho Central Aquatic Center in Boise, Idaho. 
 
Dillon Mezey (Colorado Springs, Colorado; S3) cemented himself in the Paralympic swimming information ebook by breaking two American information. The S3 swimmer shattered the American file within the males’s 50-meter butterfly by greater than 40 seconds with a time of 1:02.02 and adopted it up by setting a brand new American file within the males’s 50 freestyle through the morning prelims, ending in 54.72. 
 
Fifteen-year-old Josie Dolan (Phoenix, Arizonia; S9) additionally made her mark on day two, successful the ladies’s 100 breaststroke and putting third within the girls’s 50 freestyle for her first two podium finishes on the nationwide championships. 
 
Koehn Boyd (Ramsey, Minnesota; S10) added two extra medals to his haul, bringing his meet complete to 5 by means of two days of competitors. He received the lads’s 200 butterfly in 2:08.44 and later positioned second within the males’s 50 freestyle. 
 
The males’s 50 freestyle was probably the most electrical races of the day as Noah Jaffe (Carlsbad, California; S8) earned his first gold medal of the meet. Boyd positioned second, whereas Noah Busch (Saint Petersburg, Florida; S9) adopted in third for his first podium end of the championships. Jaffe later returned to the rostrum, putting third within the males’s 100 backstroke. 
 
After ending second within the 100-meter butterfly on Friday, Lawrence Sapp (Waldorf, Maryland; S14) claimed gold within the males’s 100 backstroke with a time of 1:04.04, whereas Aiden Stivers (Fortville, Indiana; S9) additionally earned his first gold medal of the meet, posting a 1:11.14 within the males’s 100 breaststroke. 
 
After breaking an American file on day one, Piper Sadowski (Grand Rapids, Michigan; S14) earned silver within the girls’s 100 backstroke. Fellow U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center resident athlete Liberty Freeman (Oro Valley, Arizona; S9) captured her first gold medal of the meet with a successful time of 1:15.66 within the 100 backstroke. 
 
Paralympians Leanne Smith (Salem, Muschettes; S9) and McKenzie Coan (Clarkesville, Georgia; S7) joined the motion Saturday. Smith received the ladies’s 50 breaststroke in 1:03.54 and later added a second gold within the girls’s 50 freestyle. Coan completed second within the 50 freestyle behind Smith. 
 
The nationwide championships come to an in depth tomorrow, Sunday June 13 with preliminary heats starting at 9 a.m. MT and finals at 5:30 p.m. MT. All occasions are contested in multiclass format, with outcomes decided utilizing the World Para Swimming factors system to create an equitable discipline of play throughout classifications.  
 
For full outcomes from day one, go to USParaSwimming.org.  
 
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