{"id":271407,"date":"2017-08-08T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=271407"},"modified":"2017-08-08T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:14:29","slug":"dakota-luther-carson-foster-highlight-first-morning-of-junior-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/dakota-luther-carson-foster-highlight-first-morning-of-junior-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Luther, Carson Foster Highlight First Morning of Junior Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first morning of the 2017 Speedo Junior National Championships featured only four races, but featured many names that will be well known in about four years time. One of those names that is already getting to be well known is 17-year-old <strong>Dakota Luther<\/strong> of Austin Swim Club. She swam in Budapest at the World Championships in the 200 fly and returned to Juniors in East Meadow for the 200 fly top seed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carson Foster<\/strong>, <strong>Zoie Hartmann<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Roy<\/strong> are the top seeds in their events. Foster and Roy are both going to be attending the World Junior Championships at the end of the month in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/results\/pdf\/2017-speedo-junior-national-championships-day-1-prelims-results-day-1-usa-age-group-2017-08-08.pdf\">Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women&#8217;s 200 Fly<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s 200 Fly<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s 100 Breast<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s 100 Breast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Women&#8217;s 200 Fly<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dakota Luther<\/strong> is fresh off of a 15th place at the 2017 FINA World Championships in the 200 fly as she returned to racing at the Speedo Junior National Championships with the top seed in the 200 fly on Tuesday morning in New York. Luther swam a comfortable 2:11.40, about three seconds off of what she swam to make the Worlds team in June earlier. Luther is ahead of Metroplex&#8217;s <strong>Lindsay Looney<\/strong> (2:12.59) and Enfinity&#8217;s <strong>Olivia Carter<\/strong> (2:13.50).<\/p>\n<p>Nation&#8217;s Capital&#8217;s <strong>Isabella Gati<\/strong> (2:14.01), AquaKids&#8217; <strong>Mary Smutny<\/strong> (2:14.19), Magnolia&#8217;s <strong>Lillie Nordman<\/strong> (2:14.21), Issaquah&#8217;s <strong>Sarah Dimeco<\/strong> (2:14.60) and SoCal&#8217;s <strong>Elise Garcia<\/strong> (2:14.68) will also swim in the A-final.<\/p>\n<p>If Luther is in the same shape she was in in Budapest, she could challenge the meet record held by <strong>Jasmine Tosky<\/strong> from 2010 at 2:09.28, however a third taper is always tough to grasp.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 1  Women 200 LC Meter Butterfly<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n     Jr World: W 2:06.51  8\/8\/2015  Yufei Zhang, China\r\n         Meet: M 2:09.28  8\/9\/2010  Jasmine Tosky, Palo Alto Stanfo\r\n    Name            Age Team                 Seed    Prelims  FINA       \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Luther, Dakota   17 Austin Swim Club  2:08.71    2:11.40  q796  \r\n    r:+0.73  29.28      1:02.08 (32.80)\r\n        1:36.01 (33.93)     2:11.40 (35.39)\r\n  2 Looney, Lindsay  16 Metroplex Aquati  2:12.75    2:12.59  q775  \r\n    r:+0.76  29.40      1:02.08 (32.68)\r\n        1:36.73 (34.65)     2:12.59 (35.86)\r\n  3 Carter, Olivia   17 Enfinity Aquatic  2:12.22    2:13.50  q759  \r\n    r:+0.70  30.04      1:04.05 (34.01)\r\n        1:38.62 (34.57)     2:13.50 (34.88)\r\n  4 Gati, Isabella   17 Nation's Capital  2:14.63    2:14.01  q750  \r\n    r:+0.73  30.11      1:03.74 (33.63)\r\n        1:38.33 (34.59)     2:14.01 (35.68)\r\n  5 Smutny, Mary     16 AquaKids Sharks-  2:13.28    2:14.19  q747  \r\n    r:+0.70  30.18      1:03.72 (33.54)\r\n        1:38.37 (34.65)     2:14.19 (35.82)\r\n  6 Nordmann, Lilli  15 Magnolia Aquatic  2:15.06    2:14.21  q747  \r\n    r:+0.72  30.17      1:04.21 (34.04)\r\n        1:39.04 (34.83)     2:14.21 (35.17)\r\n  7 Dimeco, Sarah    16 Issaquah Swim Te  2:16.25    2:14.60  q741  \r\n    r:+0.73  31.25      1:06.18 (34.93)\r\n        1:40.45 (34.27)     2:14.60 (34.15)\r\n  8 Garcia, Elise    17 Socal Aquatics A  2:15.59    2:14.68  q739  \r\n    r:+0.69  29.86      1:03.69 (33.83)\r\n        1:38.66 (34.97)     2:14.68 (36.02)<\/pre>\n<h3>Men&#8217;s 200 Fly<\/h3>\n<p>15-year-old <strong>Carson Foster<\/strong> of the Mason Manta Rays in Ohio had the fastest swim of the morning with a 1:59.18 just ahead of <strong>Jack LeVant<\/strong> of the North Texas Nadadores. LeVant was second at 1:59.58 as him and Foster were the only two swimmers under two minutes. Foster and LeVant will represent the United States at the World Junior Championships later this month in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Aquadarts&#8217; <strong>Luca Urlando<\/strong> (2:00.33), Irvine Nova&#8217;s <strong>Andrew Koustik<\/strong> (2:00.40), Team Greenville&#8217;s <strong>Tal Davis<\/strong> (2:01.21), Multnomah&#8217;s <strong>Van Mathias<\/strong> (2:01.37), Mason Manta Rays&#8217; <strong>Jake Foster<\/strong> (2:01.41) and Delaware&#8217;s<strong> Jake Johnson<\/strong> (2:01.57) will also swim in the championship final tonight.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 2  Men 200 LC Meter Butterfly<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n     Jr World: W 1:55.92  8\/27\/2014 Andrew Seliskar, USA\r\n         Meet: M 1:56.54  8\/5\/2013  Andrew Seliskar, Nation's Capital\r\n    Name            Age Team                 Seed    Prelims  FINA       \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Foster, Carson   15 Mason Manta Rays  2:02.73    1:59.18  q819  \r\n    r:+0.73  26.74        57.60 (30.86)\r\n        1:28.43 (30.83)     1:59.18 (30.75)\r\n  2 LeVant, Jack     17 North Texas Nada  1:59.11    1:59.58  q810  \r\n    r:+0.73  27.09        57.28 (30.19)\r\n        1:28.02 (30.74)     1:59.58 (31.56)\r\n  3 Urlando, Luca    15 Davis Aquadarts-  2:00.25    2:00.33  q795  \r\n    r:+0.74  27.22        57.15 (29.93)\r\n        1:28.09 (30.94)     2:00.33 (32.24)\r\n  4 Koustik, Andrew  18 Irvine Novaquati  1:58.55    2:00.40  q794  \r\n    r:+0.68  26.40        56.83 (30.43)\r\n        1:28.40 (31.57)     2:00.40 (32.00)\r\n  5 Davis, Tal       18 Team Greenville-  2:03.36    2:01.21  q778  \r\n    r:+0.73  27.85        58.81 (30.96)\r\n        1:29.51 (30.70)     2:01.21 (31.70)\r\n  6 Mathias, Van     16 Multnomah Athlet  2:01.44    2:01.37  q775  \r\n    r:+0.71  27.22        58.03 (30.81)\r\n        1:29.84 (31.81)     2:01.37 (31.53)\r\n  7 Foster, Jake     16 Mason Manta Rays  2:04.39    2:01.41  q774  \r\n    r:+0.72  27.35        57.99 (30.64)\r\n        1:29.25 (31.26)     2:01.41 (32.16)\r\n  8 Johnson, Jake    17 Delaware Swim Te  1:59.77    2:01.57  q771  \r\n    r:+0.69  26.60        57.18 (30.58)\r\n        1:28.65 (31.47)     2:01.57 (32.92)<\/pre>\n<h3>Women&#8217;s 100 Breast<\/h3>\n<p>16-year-old <strong>Zoie Hartman<\/strong> of the Crow Canyon Sharks swam the fastest 100 breast on Tuesday morning in East Meadow as she swam a 1:10.03 to snag the top seed. She is ahead of a tight field separated by a second and a half. Triton&#8217;s <strong>Claire Donan<\/strong> (1:10.86), Chelsea Piers&#8217;<strong> Kaki Christensen<\/strong> (1:10.92) and <strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> (1:10.96) were the only other swimmers under 1:11 in the heats.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin Community&#8217;s <strong>Ellie Andrews<\/strong> (1:11.09), Texas Ford&#8217;s <strong>Rachel Ramey<\/strong> (1:11.09), Santa Clara&#8217;s <strong>Jenny Ma<\/strong> (1:11.40) and Asphalt Green&#8217;s <strong>Sophia Zhang<\/strong> (1:11.40) will also swim in the A-final that is tightly bunched.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 3  Women 100 LC Meter Breaststroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n     Jr World: W 1:05.39  8\/20\/2014 Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania\r\n         Meet: M 1:08.11  8\/8\/2016  Zoe Bartel, Fort Collins Are\r\n    Name            Age Team                 Seed    Prelims  FINA       \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Hartman, Zoie    16 Crow Canyon Coun  1:09.79    1:10.03  q775  \r\n    r:+0.75  33.03      1:10.03 (37.00)\r\n  2 Donan, Claire    15 Triton Swimming-  1:11.00    1:10.86  q748  \r\n    r:+0.65  33.33      1:10.86 (37.53)\r\n  3 Christensen, Ka  17 Chelsea Piers Aq  1:10.46    1:10.92  q747  \r\n    r:+0.80  33.50      1:10.92 (37.42)\r\n  4 Douglass, Kate   15 Chelsea Piers Aq  1:10.43    1:10.96  q745  \r\n    r:+0.74  33.55      1:10.96 (37.41)\r\n  5 Andrews, Ellie   14 Dublin Community  1:11.31    1:11.09  q741  \r\n    r:+0.70  33.02      1:11.09 (38.07)\r\n  5 Ramey, Rachel    18 Texas Ford Aquat  1:11.39    1:11.09  q741  \r\n    r:+0.77  33.48      1:11.09 (37.61)\r\n  7 Ma, Jenny        18 Santa Clara Swim  1:12.28    1:11.40  q732  \r\n    r:+0.76  33.96      1:11.40 (37.44)\r\n  7 Zhang, Sophia    15 Asphalt Green Un  1:10.65    1:11.40  q732  \r\n    r:+0.73  33.67      1:11.40 (37.73)<\/pre>\n<h3>Men&#8217;s 100 Breast<\/h3>\n<p>17-year-old <strong>Daniel Roy<\/strong> from the King Aquatic Club swam the fastest 100 breast of the morning with a 1:02.28 ahead of <strong>Hank Poppe<\/strong> of Stanford (1:02.43) and Team Rebel&#8217;s <strong>Zane Backes<\/strong> (1:02.68). Roy will represent the United States at the FINA World Junior Championships at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Manta Rays&#8217; <strong>Jake Foster<\/strong> (1:03.03), Portland&#8217;s <strong>Josh Bottelberghe<\/strong> (1:03.35), King&#8217;s <strong>Ethan Dang<\/strong> (1:03.44), SwimMAC&#8217;s <strong>Will Chan<\/strong> (1:03.46) and Ohio State&#8217;s <strong>Jason Mathews<\/strong> (1:03.69) will also swim in the A-final.<\/p>\n<p>Top prelim seed <strong>Reece Whitley<\/strong> of Penn Charter was noticeably absent as he scratched and did not swim in his preliminary heat.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 4  Men 100 LC Meter Breaststroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n     Jr World: W   59.31  6\/23\/2017 Nicolo Martinenghi, Italy\r\n         Meet: M 1:00.08  8\/8\/2016  Michael Andrew, Race Pace Club-M\r\n    Name            Age Team                 Seed    Prelims  FINA       \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Roy, Daniel      17 King Aquatic Clu  1:01.72    1:02.28  q827  \r\n    r:+0.66  29.58      1:02.28 (32.70)\r\n  2 Poppe, Hank      18 Stanford Swimmin  1:02.67    1:02.43  q821  \r\n    r:+0.79  29.44      1:02.43 (32.99)\r\n  3 Backes, Zane     18 Team Rebel Aquat  1:03.08    1:02.68  q811  \r\n    r:+0.76  29.50      1:02.68 (33.18)\r\n  4 Foster, Jake     16 Mason Manta Rays  1:03.59    1:03.03  q797  \r\n    r:+0.71  29.25      1:03.03 (33.78)\r\n  5 Bottelberghe, J  17 Portland Aquatic  1:02.42    1:03.35  q785  \r\n    r:+0.81  29.82      1:03.35 (33.53)\r\n  6 Dang, Ethan      15 King Aquatic Clu  1:03.16    1:03.44  q782  \r\n    r:+0.68  29.70      1:03.44 (33.74)\r\n  7 Chan, Will       17 SwimMAC Carolina  1:04.13    1:03.46  q781  \r\n    r:+0.72  29.57      1:03.46 (33.89)\r\n  8 Mathews, Jason   18 Ohio State Swim-  1:03.02    1:03.69  q773  \r\n    r:+0.67  29.56      1:03.69 (34.13)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first morning of the 2017 Speedo Junior National Championships featured only four races, but featured many names that will be well known in about four years time. 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