13-Year-Old Thomas Heilman Swims 48.81 100 Fly at Intrasquad

Photo Courtesy: Connor Trimble

13-year-old Thomas Heilman of Cavalier Aquatics and Piedmont YMCA put up some impressive short course times in his return to racing this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heilman assaulted the 13-14 national age group all-time rankings this weekend as he swam the 50 & 100 freestyle and the 100 butterfly.

Heilman started the weekend with a 20.54 in the 50 free, which put him sixth all-time in the 13-14 national age group rankings as he will have another year to catch Michael Andrew’s 19.76 from 2014. He dropped nearly a second off his best time of 21.50 that he swam in December 2019 when he was 12.

Thomas Heilman also swam a 48.81 in the 100 butterfly which was a huge improvement off his best time of 50.82 from January 2020. That swim put him tied for fourth all-time with Will Hayon and Ronald Dalmacio as Andrew holds the national age group record at 46.95.

He finished the weekend with a 45.66 in the 100 freestyle to put himself tied for 15th all-time in the 13-14 age group again with Hayon. His best time before that was a 47.15 from December 2019.

All-Time Rankings (50 Freestyle)

19.76, Michael Andrew, 2014
20.02, Ryan Hoffer, 2013
20.28, Daniel Krueger, 2014
20.29, David Curtiss, 2017
20.52, Will Rose, 2017
20.54, Thomas Heilman, 2020
20.56, Aiden Hayes, 2017
20.58, Jack Dolan, 2015
20.59, Matt Brownstead, 2017
20.59, Jack Alexy, 2017

All-Time Rankings (100 Butterfly)

46.95, Michael Andrew, 2014
47.78, Andrei Minakov, 2016
48.33, Aiden Hayes, 2017
48.81, Thomas Heilman, 2020
48.81, Will Hayon, 2019
48.81, Ronald Dalmacio, 2019
48.98, Michael Domagala, 2010
49.02, Long Gutierrez, 2010
49.07, Luca Battaglini, 2020
49.08, Luca Urlando, 2017

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