Presenting our Weekly Wonders from the weekend of March twenty-ninth to thirty-first, 2019: Austin Winchester, sixteen, Waves of Wilmington (WOW-NC): 2 hundred IM, 1:52.51 – A 12 months ago, then-15-year-old Austin Winchester became 1: fifty-five .90 in the two hundred IM. Throughout the relaxation of 2018, he swam the race in some instances, never going underneath 1:59. Then, in January 2019, he became nifty eight. Severy four, and the remaining weekend, we dropped to one:52.Fifty-one.
Winchester also went first-class times in the hundred unfastened (45.48), a hundred again (fifty-one. 47), one hundred breasts (fifty-eight. Fifty-six), 100 plies (51.05), and two hundred flies (1: fifty-four. Eighty-two). Catherine Hughes, 13, Arlington Aquatic Club (AAC-PV): two hundred breasts, 1:03.Eighty-four – Then-12-year-vintage Catherine Hughes went a quality time of 2:24.25 inside the two hundred breasts. A 12 months later – earlier this month – she went 2:20.14. Then, the remaining weekend, she shaved off even more, going 2:17.17, hitting a Winter Juniors cut.
Kira Agne, 14, Wilmington Aquatic Club (WAV-MA): 1650 unfastened, 17:15.14 – In November of 2018, then-13-yr-old Kira Agne went 18:07.08 inside the mile, in and of itself a minute and forty-eight-second drops from her previous nice. Then, in January of this year, she turned 17:32.38. Last weekend, she took off some other 17 seconds, going 17:15.14. She was the second one-quickest 14-12 months-antique within u. S. A . Ultimate weekend. Agne also dropped over a 2nd inside the 500 unfastened (4:58.Fifty one) and swam her first-ever 1000 unfastened (10:24.95).
Josh Zuchowski, 14, Flood Aquatics Swim Club (FAST-FG): one hundred flies, forty-nine. 80 – After dropping seconds to interrupt:50 for the first time two weeks in the past (forty-nine. Eighty-three), 14-yr-vintage Josh Zuchowski can shave off a bit more time. He went fifty-one. Forty-six in prelims, then forty nine.80 in finals. He additionally went a quality time in his 500 loose (4:38.Sixty one), 50 back (22.78), two hundred breasts (2:04.Fifty seven), and four hundred IM (three:53.06) last weekend.
Katie McClintock, sixteen, Egg Harbor TWP Seahawks (SEA-MA): four hundred IM, 4:16.20 – Then-15-year-antique Katie McClintock closed 2017 excellent time of four:22.76 inside the 400 IM, then after a full year later, went a new first-class time of four:19.55. However, McClintock didn’t wait long after that and went 4:19.15 in the prelims closing weekend. In finals, she blew that point away, going four:sixteen. 20.
Catherine Weaverling, 15, Delaware Swim Team (DST-MA): one hundred back, 55.61 – Then-14-12 months-old Catherine Weaverling broke:57 inside the hundred returned for the first time March of 2018, going 56.95 then 56.89. Then, in advance in March, she was fifty-six. 33. Last weekend, she went 56.26 in prelims, then slashed off time to move fifty-five .S sixty-one in finals. She additionally went a nice time inside the 50 free (24. Forty-one), one hundred unfastened (51.14), 50 returned (26.45), 200 returned (2:00.Eighty one), 200 plies (2:03.Seventy four), and four hundred IM (4:28.61).
