The 2016 NCSA Juniors National Championships begin tomorrow in Orlando, FL with the short-course distance events. The meet, which boasts a wide variety of talented swimmers ages 13-18, hosts a number of close match-ups.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest match-ups of the meet will be between 16-year-old breaststroke dynamos\u00a0Michael Andrew<\/strong> and\u00a0Reece Whitley<\/strong>. The two will be competing in multiple events with some seeds closer than others. The two sit as the 1-2 seeds in the 100 breaststroke with times of 51.75 (Andrew) and 52.56 (Whitley).<\/p>\n While the two young superstars are closely matched in the 100, Whitley leads Andrew in the 200 by almost seven seconds. Whitley sits at the number one seed with a 1:53.66 over Andrew’s ninth place seed of 2:00.34. The pair’s other close match-up will be in the 200 IM with first and seventh place seeds of 1:42.77 (Andrew) and 1:47.55 (Whitley).<\/p>\n Katherine Drabot<\/strong> holds the number one seed time in\u00a0a total of eight events, including a sweep of the 50 through 500 freestyle events. Along with the four freestyle events, Drabot is the top seed in the 200 (1:56.05) and 400 (4:08.67) IM’s and 50 and 100 (52.37) fly.<\/p>\n Competing in many of the same events as Drabot is\u00a0Margaret Aroesty<\/strong>, who leads the competition in the 100 breaststroke with a 1:00.00. Seeded a slim .02 seconds behind her is\u00a0Alexis Wenger<\/strong> with a 1:00.02.<\/p>\n Aroesty boasts a qualifying time of 4:12.03 for the second-place seed in the 400 IM, just behind Drabot, and a second-place seed of 2:11.67 in the 200 breaststroke behind\u00a0Halladay Kinsey’s\u00a0<\/strong>2:11.56.<\/p>\n Ethan Young<\/strong> tops the men’s 200 back with a seed time of 1:43.52, while fellow 18-year-old\u00a0Ryan Baker<\/strong> sits second with a 1:44.88.<\/p>\n The young\u00a0Robert Freeman\u00a0<\/strong>tops an older crowd with a number one seed time of 4:18.82 in the 500 yard free. That leads by almost four seconds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2016 NCSA Juniors National Championships begin tomorrow in Orlando, FL with the short-course distance events. The meet, which boasts a wide variety of talented swimmers ages 13-18, hosts a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":102221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[56785,33378,28365,33450,33625,25824,36522,57215,31825],"class_list":["post-190385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-2016-ncsa-junior-nationals","tag-alexis-wenger","tag-ethan-young","tag-katherine-drabot","tag-margaret-aroesty","tag-michael-andrew","tag-reece-whitley","tag-robert-freeman","tag-ryan-baker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n