Speedo Sectionals competition resumed at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in North Carolina this evening.<\/p>\n
SwimMAC dominated in the women’s 100-yard backstroke, making up the entire A-final and\u00a0grabbing the top two\u00a0spots in the B-final. Caroline<\/strong> Hauder<\/strong> topped the event in a blistering 53.84, while\u00a015-year-old Madelyn<\/strong> Flickinger<\/strong> finished second in a 54.36. 200-yard freestyle champion Sinclair Larson\u00a0<\/strong>took third place with a 54.41. Teammates Sophie<\/strong> Lindner<\/strong>, Stephanie<\/strong> Nelson<\/strong>, and Jane Donahue<\/strong>\u00a0were also included in the top 10 finishers.<\/p>\n NC State’s\u00a0Noah<\/strong> Hensley<\/strong> was the winner in the men’s event over\u00a0Cardinal Swim Club’s\u00a0Nicolas<\/strong> Albiero<\/strong>, with a time of 46.93. Albiero was second in 47.74, and teammate DeMercurio swam a 49.40 for third place.<\/p>\n SwimMAC Carolina’s Julia<\/strong> Menkhaus<\/strong> continued her outstanding meet, garnering first-place honors\u00a0<\/strong>in the women’s 200-yard butterfly to start off the meet, against some stiff competition. She finished in a time of 1:58.98 to second-place Elysse<\/strong> Pardus<\/strong> of South Carolina Swim Club’s 1:59.84. Third place Lindsay<\/strong> Cohee<\/strong> of SwimMAC came in just shy of under two minutes in 2:00.02.<\/p>\n Louisville-bound senior Albiero swam a time of 1:43.53, good for first place by four seconds and the twelfth all-time performance in the 17-18 age group for the event. SwimMAC’s Talmadge<\/strong> Davis<\/strong>\u00a0finished in second place with a time of 1:47.85, and\u00a0Seth<\/strong> Kyriakidis<\/strong>\u00a0of Ensworth Aquatic Club dropped three seconds from his prelims time for\u00a0a third-place performance of 1:48.69.<\/p>\n Next came the sprint event of the evening, the 50 freestyle, in which\u00a0Georgia club teams dominated on the women’s side. Danielle<\/strong> Dellatorre<\/strong> of Athens Bulldog Swim Club sprinted to a 23.03 for first place.\u00a0Julie<\/strong> Woody<\/strong> of Savannah Swim Team was behind in 23.10, out-touching third place Emma<\/strong> Cole<\/strong> of Chattahoochee Gold Swim Club by 0.01.<\/p>\n SwimMAC’s William<\/strong> Chan<\/strong> overtook Albiero in the men’s 50 freestyle, stopping the clock in a quick 20.14 to Albiero’s 20.23. Jacob DeMercurio finished third in the event with a time of 20.56.<\/p>\n The women’s 200-yard breaststroke saw some fast swims, SwimMAC’s Donahue\u00a0coming out on top in 2:12.84. Unattached Bethany<\/strong> Leap’s<\/strong> time of 2:13.32 was good for second place, and Donahue’s 16-year-old teammate Lillian<\/strong> Higgs<\/strong> finished third in 2:14.08.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n SwimMAC went 1-2-3 in the men’s breaststroke, with Chan stepping\u00a0right back up to the blocks and blasting a 1:59.08 for first place, just ahead of teammate Lucas<\/strong> Johnson<\/strong>‘s 1:59.46. Colson<\/strong> Zucker<\/strong> was third with a 2:02.26.<\/p>\n The women’s 500 freestyle was a tight race, with Larson just out-touching 15-year-old Eleanor<\/strong> Marquardt<\/strong> of Aquatic Team of Mecklenburg in 4:53.30 to Marquardt’s 4:53.36. Third was Chattahoochee Gold’s Bayler Frierson<\/strong> in 4:55.22.<\/p>\n To finish off the evening, Curtis<\/strong> Wiltsey<\/strong> of SwimMAC dropped a 4:27.14 for first place in the men’s 500. Konstantinos<\/strong> Siokos<\/strong> was second, stopping the clock in 4:27.99, and John Frith<\/strong> of New South Swimming was third in 4:30.13.<\/p>\n Competition will pick back up tomorrow morning for prelims, and tomorrow night at 6pm for the last night of finals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speedo Sectionals competition resumed at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in North Carolina this evening. 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