14-Yr-Outdated Dhriti Upadhyaya Wins 50 Backstroke On Night time Three of Austin Futures

2026 USA Swimming Futures — Austin

The third night time of the 2026 Austin Futures Championships featured a number of youngsters setting large private bests to win their occasions.

Katy Aquatics Club 14-year-old Dhriti Upadhyaya swam 29.17 to win the 50 backstroke and take eight tenths off the 29.95 she set in June.

She completed 4 tenths forward of Alexia Duncan, a rising junior on the University of Houston, who stopped the clock in 29.57.

Upadhyaya’s time will transfer her as much as #1 within the 13-14 age group this season within the occasion, placing her virtually 4 tenths forward of Santa Clara Swim Club’s Aya Gillis-Pade.

The women’ 200 breaststroke additionally went to a youthful teenager with 15-year-old Haylee Pramono, from Aquazot Swim Club, swimming 2:32.13 to complete greater than a second forward of Swim Streamline 17-year-old Sloane Rocha.

Pramono took seven tenths off the two:32.87 she swam in May and three seconds off her pre-season greatest of two:35.14.

Ella Gaca Thile was the ultimate excessive schooler to win an occasion, swimming 1:00.52 within the women’ 100 fly to choose up her third occasion win of the meet. The USC commit dropped 4 tenths from the 1:00.93 mark she set again in May.

All of the lads’s occasions went to present faculty athletes, however the largest drop got here from Kiefer Roemer of Texas Ford Aquatics. The Missouri State rising sophomore gained the lads’s 200 breaststroke in 2:16.30, virtually a full second forward of Bolles School’s Louis Joos, who swam 2:17.15 for 2nd.

This swim was a 4 second drop for Roemer, who got here into the meet at 2:20.88 from July of 2024. Joos took a second off his greatest of two:18.06, which he set in May. Joos is dedicated to Yale for the autumn.

Other Event Winners

• Boys 50 again: John Simmons (BTA), 25.88 — Simmons, who simply wrapped up his freshman yr at Texas A&M, swam took three tenths off his former greatest time of 26.19 to swim 25.85 in prelims. He was barely off that point within the remaining, however nonetheless gained by seven tenths.
• Girls 400 free: Avery Dillon (KATY), 4:18.59 — 18-year-old Dillon, who might be beginning her sophomore yr at TCU within the fall, took 4 seconds off her earlier better of 4:22.41, which she swam in July of 2025.
• Boys 400 free: Cooper McDonald (DYNA), 3:58.32 20 — Indiana’s McDonald, a rising junior, eked out the win within the 400 free by 4 tenths over Charlie Kulp, a rising sophomore at Duke. McDonald added 4 seconds from the three:54.46 he set in May of 2024.
• Boys 100 Fly: Quint Erwin (CFSC), 54.09 — Rising TCU sophomore Erwin dropped almost two seconds within the 100 fly from the 55.85 he swam in July of 2025.
• Girls 400 Free Relay: Bolles School Sharks, 3:51.99 — The staff of Emmie Lewis (57.84), Maryn McDade (57.53), Sophie Oldham (58.89), and Ella Gotham (57.73), gained by two seconds over Katy’s 3:54.09.
• Boys 400 Free Relay: Bolles School Sharks, 3:23.81 — Bolles School’s George Dovellos (50.29), Carter Wright (50.46), Jarrid Dame (51.64), and Tommy Lussier (50.79) beat their very own ‘B’ relay’s tiem of three:27.45 in 2nd place.