{"id":234965,"date":"2016-12-26T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=234965"},"modified":"2016-12-25T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T05:03:50","slug":"are-junior-nationals-producing-faster-times-than-senior-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/are-junior-nationals-producing-faster-times-than-senior-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Junior Nationals Producing Faster Times Than Senior Nationals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The month of December plays host to several of the nation\u2019s fastest meets. During the last month of the year we saw the NCAP Invitational, Jingle Bell Classic and our Winter Junior and Senior National Championships meets take place, each with their own speedy swims.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest of the nation\u2019s swimmers usually gather at the Senior National meet, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. However, this year, we saw a different trend begin.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 East &amp; West Winter Junior Nationals were faster than the 2016 Winter Senior Nationals. After reading that bold statement, one may think: \u201cThat simply can\u2019t be true! Junior Swimmers are younger and therefore slower!\u201d. While the 18 and under swimmers may be a bit younger than some of the senior national participants, they are not that much slower and, in many cases, they are faster. We see evidence of this in this year\u2019s results.<\/p>\n<p>On the men\u2019s side, five of the top times out of the 13 total individual events, from both junior nationals were faster than the top times of the senior national meets. In some events, the juniors actually obliterated the times posted at Senior Nationals. For example, in the men\u2019s 50 freestyle and 100 Freestyle, no one from the Senior Nationals broke 19 seconds or 42 seconds in either of the sprint freetyles whereas the Junior National Champion, <strong>Ryan Hoffer<\/strong>\u00a0from Scottsdale, swam an 18.71 in the 50 freestyle and 41.71 in the 100 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>In some of the cases that the senior national\u2019s swimmers were faster than the junior swimmers, the times were fairly close. For example, in the men\u2019s 200 IM, <strong>Vini Lanza<\/strong> from Indiana University claimed the Senior National title with a 1:43.57. In the same race at his Junior National meet, <strong>Reece Whitley<\/strong> from Penn Charter Aquatics clocked a 1:43.93, which would have been right behind Lanza had they faced off in the same pool. In that same event, no junior swimmer in the top-eight from either the East or West went above 1:47.60, whereas in that event at senior nationals we saw three swimmers above 1:47.60 from just the top eight, and many more from the B and C finals.<\/p>\n<p>We see this in several other events too, like the men\u2019s 1650 freestyle. <strong>Zachary Yeadon<\/strong> of Alamo Area posted the top time from both junior meets with a 14:49.90. That is comparable to IU\u2019s <strong>Marwan El Kamash<\/strong>\u2019s 14:48.34 from senior nationals. Also, interestingly enough, both junior meets had more swimmers under 15 minutes than the senior meet did.<\/p>\n<p>The junior men aren\u2019t the only one\u2019s who are starting to beat the veterans at Senior Nationals. The women\u2019s Junior Nationals was also significantly faster than the senior meet. From both the east and west Junior National meets, eight of the 13 total events had top times that were faster than the top times at Senior Nationals. Much like the men\u2019s side, when the junior women were not faster than the senior women, they were very close. In the women\u2019s 100 Breaststroke, <strong>Melanie Margalis<\/strong> from Athens Bulldogs posted the top time from Senior Nationals with a 58.09, while the fastest time from both Junior National championships was 58.80 by <strong>Alexandra Walsh<\/strong>, out of Nashville Aquatic Club.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_234969\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234969\" data-attachment-id=\"234969\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/are-junior-nationals-producing-faster-times-than-senior-nationals\/ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23-2-e1482718140547.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23  12\/25\/2016&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Melissa Lundie&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23-2-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23-2-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-234969\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23-2-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"ryan-hoffer-winter-junior-nationals-2014-23\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-234969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Melissa Lundie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like Hoffer on the men\u2019s side, Riptide\u2019s <strong>Regan Smith<\/strong> swam the fastest times by any junior from either the East or West in the 100 and 200 backstroke, with times of 51.09 and 1:51.79 respectively. Smith\u2019s 100 backstroke time would have put her one and a half seconds ahead of the Senior National champion in that event and her 200 backstroke time was about a half second ahead of the Senior National Champion.<\/p>\n<p>We saw a few athletes compete at both the Junior and Senior National Championships, but no one besides Gator Swim Club\u2019s <strong>Isabel Ivey<\/strong> won events at both meets. Her success is an anomaly in my analysis of the two meets because she won the 100 freestyle at both Senior Nationals and swam the fastest time out of both junior meets. Although, she did go on to progress from a 48.33, which won her a Senior National title, to a 47.88, which would win her a Junior National East title. The pure fact that Ivey is only 16 years old and was able to dominate Senior and Junior Nationals, contributes to the original point that Winter Junior Nationals are now faster than Winter Senior Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just individual events that were faster either, some of the junior relay events far outshine their senior counterparts. In the women\u2019s 800 freestyle relay, the top three times from both junior meets, beat the fastest time from the senior meet. Also, the fourth place team at Senior Nationals, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill would not have placed in the top eight if you were to combine both Junior National meets.<\/p>\n<p>A few other events show similar comparisons as well. When we see so many Junior National Champions like Hoffer and Ivey post times that would have far surpassed what was done at Senior Nationals and with Yeadon and Whitely, being so close to our Senior National champions, it might make us wonder; which is the faster meet? Are our elite-level Junior swimmers ready to take on the seasoned veterans? Will we see another young Olympic team? With evidence like this, it might make us answer \u201cyes\u201d to these questions.<\/p>\n<p><em>All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern The month of December plays host to several of the nation\u2019s fastest meets. 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