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Smith swam a 50.58 to lower her own 15-16 NAG record in the 100 back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith\u2019s old NAG record was a 50.84 from Speedo Sectionals in March. She furthered the distance between her and second all-time,\u00a0<\/span><b>Isabelle Stadden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, also from Minnesota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Smith was in college, she would have the second fastest time in the nation in Division I, only sitting behind Wisconsin junior <\/span><b>Beata Nelson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/beata-nelson-cracks-american-record-in-100-back-with-49-67-at-texas-invite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the American Record<\/a> last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smith has yet to commit to a school yet as she is only a junior in high school.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith moved up to 16th all-time in the event, passing <\/span><b>Ali DeLoof <\/b>(50.59, 2016)\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and sitting just behind <\/span><b>Hannah Stevens\u00a0<\/b>(50.57, 2017)<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre>21 Riptide-MN  'A'                     3:44.11    3:45.68  \r\n     1) Smith, Regan 16               2) r:+0.20 Burg, Nicole 16      \r\n     3) r:+0.18 Craig, Winter 17      4) r:+0.41 Dougan, Claudia 16   \r\n             24.63        50.58 (50.58)\r\n        1:21.94 (31.36)   1:57.98 (1:07.40)\r\n        2:23.54 (25.56)     2:53.44 (55.46)\r\n        3:18.25 (24.81)     3:45.68 (52.24)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old Regan Smith was not entered in any backstroke events this weekend at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals West Championships in Austin, Texas, but she did lead off her club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":321372,"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":[72683,72684,27638,33590,29940,63211,45350],"class_list":["post-341063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-2018-winter-junior-nationals-east","tag-2018-winter-junior-nationals-west","tag-ali-deloof","tag-beata-nelson","tag-hannah-stevens","tag-isabelle-stadden","tag-regan-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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