The Mt. Hood Speedo Sectionals meet continued Friday with four simple individual events: the men’s and women’s 200 free and 400 IM. Scottsdale Aquatic Club continued to grow their lead in the team scores, bypassing the 1,000 mark with a total of 1,069.5 points, while Boise YMCA rose above Phoenix Swim Club to take second with 758 over PSC’s 638.<\/p>\n
15-year-olds reigned supreme in the finals of the women’s 200 free as\u00a0Ashley Strouse<\/strong> of Scottsdale Aquatic Club and\u00a0Kathryn Shalney<\/strong> of Foothills Swim Team posted the top two times of the night. Strouse claimed the gold medal with a strong finish of 2:02.37, while Shanley took second with a 2:05.18<\/p>\n Shanley was followed closely to the wall by Tualatin Hills Swim Club’s\u00a0Ryan Falk<\/strong>, who stopped the clock at a final time of 2:05.20.<\/p>\n Isaac Stump<\/strong>, representing Tucson Ford Aquatics, added another 200 victory to his name, this time in freestyle. Stump scraped .66 seconds off his prelims time of 1:51.90 to finish first overall with a 1:51.24.<\/p>\n Hugo Sykes<\/strong> of University of Denver Hilltoppe picked up the silver medal with a 1:52.97, followed closely by Wasatch Front Fish Market’s\u00a0Lucas Hess<\/strong> and his time of 1:53.06.<\/p>\n 14-year-old\u00a0Mia Rankin<\/strong> of Phoenix Swim Club bested a field of fellow teenagers in finals of the women’s 400 IM. Rankin slashed a whopping 6.39 seconds off her prelims time of 5:01.89 to win the event with a personal best time of 4:55.50.<\/p>\n Flatiron Athletic Club’s\u00a0Amelie Lessing<\/strong> turned in a 4:57.80 for second place, followed by Rankin’s teammate\u00a0Sydney Carlson<\/strong> and her time of 4:58.51.<\/p>\n The big time drops continued as the top three finishers in the men’s 400 IM each scraped more than six seconds off their prelims time.\u00a0Hiromasa Fujimori<\/strong> led the charge, dominating the men’s final with a time of 4:23.04.<\/p>\n Mesa Aquatic Club’s\u00a0Kevin Keil<\/strong> delivered a second place finish of 4:31.89, while Boise YMCA’s\u00a0Jackson Cunningham<\/strong> took third with a 4:35.02.<\/p>\n All results can be found on Meet Mobile – 2018 Speedo Sectionals – Mt. Hood.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mt. Hood Speedo Sectionals meet continued Friday with four simple individual events: the men’s and women’s 200 free and 400 IM. Scottsdale Aquatic Club continued to grow their lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":306066,"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":[7],"tags":[69145],"class_list":["post-318933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-2018-speedo-sectionals-long-course"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nMen’s 200 Free<\/h3>\n
Women’s 400 IM<\/h3>\n
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