On the fifth and final day of the 2016 long course YMCA Nationals,\u00a0another national record fell and multiple swimmers made repeat podium finishes as the Hickory women continued to show their distance prowess and Wilton took the top spots in the sprints.<\/p>\n
Cheshire’s\u00a0Karl Bishop\u00a0<\/strong>continued a successful weekend. The 18 year old touched in national record time of 8:11.69 to win the 800.\u00a0Ross Dant\u00a0<\/strong>of Hickory set the record at 8:17.21 in the opening 800 of his second place 1500 on Wednesday. Tonight, Dant was Bishop’s runner up again, also under the record with an 8:14.15. Dant is only 15 and will have many more opportunities to reclaim the mark. Wilton’s\u00a0Robby Giller\u00a0<\/strong>placed third in 8:18.64.<\/p>\n The meet closed with another YMCA National record. Upper Main Line stopped the clock in 3:28.78 to claim the men’s 400 freestyle relay title. The team of\u00a0Brendan Burns<\/strong>,\u00a0Sam Hawke<\/strong>,\u00a0Brian McKenrick<\/strong>, and\u00a0Billy Beard\u00a0<\/strong>won the event by nearly four seconds.<\/p>\n The Hickory women had an impressive four women in the eight person final of the 800 freestyle.\u00a0Emmaline Peterson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Madison Murtagh\u00a0<\/strong>represented the group in the top three. Peterson won the event in 8:51.13, three seconds shy of the National Record, and Murtagh took third in 9:00.75. Boise’s\u00a0Abbey Erwin\u00a0<\/strong>snagged second with an 8:45.65.<\/p>\n Phoenixville’s\u00a0Emma Seiberlich\u00a0<\/strong>led a tight pack into the finish of the women’s 200 butterfly. The 17 year old stopped the clock in 2:15.56. Separated by only .01 were\u00a0Brooke Perrotta\u00a0<\/strong>of Cheshire (2:15.93) and Countryside’s\u00a0Shannon Jelley\u00a0<\/strong>(2:15.94).<\/p>\n Corey Gambardella\u00a0<\/strong>of Soundview dropped six seconds from his prelims swim to take the title in the men’s 200 butterfly in 2:02.63. He finished well ahead of the field. Upper Main Line’s\u00a0Brendan Burns\u00a0<\/strong>battled Wilton’s\u00a0Lexo Walker\u00a0<\/strong>into the finish as the two touched in 2:05.78 and 2:05.90.<\/p>\n Wilton’s\u00a0Ky-lee Perry\u00a0<\/strong>won again this weekend with a 56.64 100 freestyle.\u00a0Camryn Forbes\u00a0<\/strong>of Butler finished runner up in 57.03 and Hamilton Area’s\u00a0Abbey Berloco\u00a0<\/strong>touched in 57.41 for third. Perry’s teammate\u00a0Hugo Sykes\u00a0<\/strong>also rose to the top of the podium again this weekend in 51.62. Coffman’s\u00a0Hank Siefert\u00a0<\/strong>grabbed silver in 52.12 and\u00a0Billy Beard\u00a0<\/strong>of Upper Main Line clinched third with a 52.46.<\/p>\n Metuchen’s 15 year old\u00a0Sarah Hardy\u00a0<\/strong>touched first in 2:20.71 to win the women’s 200 IM title.\u00a0Megan Bull\u00a0<\/strong>of Somerset Valley (2:21.30) and New Canaan’s\u00a0Lizzy Colwell\u00a0<\/strong>(2:23.03) completed the top three.<\/p>\n Grant House\u00a0<\/strong>of Countryside came up just shy of a National record in the 200 IM, as he finished in 2:05.55.\u00a0Hassler Carroll\u00a0<\/strong>of ME Lyons was second in 2:07.60, just ahead of Upper Main Line’s\u00a0Brian McKenrick\u00a0<\/strong>in 2:07.91.<\/p>\n The top six women finished under 30, with Edwardsville’s\u00a0Bailey Grinter\u00a0<\/strong>finishing just one tenth shy of the 2004 National Record. Grinter touched in 29.42. Fifteen year old\u00a0Athena Ye\u00a0<\/strong>of Kishwaukee was runner up in 29.70 and Greater Flint’s\u00a0Alaina Skellett\u00a0<\/strong>placed third in 29.78.<\/p>\n Grove City’s\u00a0Austin Wilson\u00a0<\/strong>touched in 27.20 to win the men’s 50 backstroke ahead of Chambersburg’s\u00a0Averly Barley\u00a0<\/strong>in 27.47 and South Shore’s\u00a0Auston Ramsay\u00a0<\/strong>in 27.82.<\/p>\n In the women’s 400 freestyle relay Hickory’s Faith Hefner<\/strong>,\u00a0Sophia Cherkez<\/strong>,\u00a0Anna Durak<\/strong>, and\u00a0Madison Murtagh<\/strong>\u00a0took home the crown in 3:54.45.<\/p>\n Wilton earned 747 points for the combined title, followed by Cheshire with 547.5 and Countryside with 540.\u00a0The Hickory women won the women’s meet with 336 points, followed by Countryside with 294 and Wilton with 290. The Wilton men compiled 457 points to take home that title. Upper Main Line finished runner up with 394 while the Cheshire men secured third with 288.5 points.<\/p>\n Full results available on Meet Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the fifth and final day of the 2016 long course YMCA Nationals,\u00a0another national record fell and multiple swimmers made repeat podium finishes as the Hickory women continued to show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":102553,"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":[58138,58156,17240,58148,58181],"class_list":["post-215057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-2016-ymca-long-course-nationals","tag-hickory","tag-wilton","tag-ymca-nationals","tag-ynats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n