{"id":484695,"date":"2021-08-04T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T00:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=484695"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T01:16:47","slug":"speedo-summer-championships-charlie-swanson-jojo-ramey-impressive-in-greensboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/speedo-summer-championships-charlie-swanson-jojo-ramey-impressive-in-greensboro\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedo Summer Championships: Charlie Swanson, JoJo Ramey Impressive in Greensboro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speedo Summer Championships: Charlie Swanson, JoJo Ramey Impressive in Greensboro<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a disappointing Olympic Trials for Michigan graduate\u00a0Charlie Swanson<\/strong>, who was considered a contender to at least qualify for the final in the 400 IM. Swanson was 13th in the 400 IM, ninth in the 200 breaststroke and 18th in the 200 IM, but at the Speedo Summer Championships in Greensboro, N.C., the 23-year-old representing Club Wolverine put up a strong effort. Competing in the men’s 200 breaststroke final, Swanson away from 18-year-old Josh Matheny<\/strong> to win in 2:09.85, beating his lifetime best of 2:10.62 by almost a second. That inserted Matheny into the top 30 in the world in the event.<\/p>\n

Matheny, representing Team Pittsburgh, finished an impressive fifth in the 100 breast at Trials, but the 200 breast is his best event, as he owns a lifetime best of 2:09.40, but Matheny ended up 20th in that race. In Greensboro, he put up a 2:12.72 for second, holding off Indiana’s\u00a0Maxwell Reich<\/strong> (2:13.02).<\/p>\n

In the very next event, 16-year-old\u00a0JoJo Ramey\u00a0<\/strong>of Fishers Area (Indiana) won the women’s 200 backstroke in 2:09.34. Ramey finished seventh in the event at Olympic Trials in a very impressive national-level debut, and she actually ranks 17th in the world (sixth among Americans) in 2:08.90. Club Wolverine’s\u00a0Gabby DeLoof<\/strong> took second in 2:11.18, and Carmel’s\u00a0Madelyn Christmas<\/strong> was third in 2:11.27.<\/p>\n

In the men’s 200 backstroke, 24-year-old\u00a0Sam Stewart<\/strong> swam a time of 1:59.52 to take the win by almost a second. Stewart took fifth in the 200 IM and eighth in the 400 IM at Olympic Trials, but he did not swim the 200 back, likely because that event occurred on the same day as the 200 IM. Indiana’s\u00a0Jacob Steele<\/strong> took second in that race in 2:00.46, and Ohio State’s\u00a0Thomas Watkins<\/strong> grabbed third in 2:01.07.<\/p>\n

After Westchester’s\u00a0Claire Weinstein<\/strong> held off Long Island’s\u00a0Cavan Gormsen<\/strong> by a miniscule three hundredths in Tuesday’s 800 free<\/a>, the finish repeated itself in the women’s 200 free. Weinstein, 14, won the race in 1:59.56, about a half-second ahead of the charging Gormsen, who touched in 2:00.06. Tampa Bay’s\u00a0Summer Cardwell<\/strong> took third in 2:00.97. In an incredibly tight finish in the men’s 200 free, Indiana’s\u00a0Brendan Burns<\/strong> held off SwimMAC Carolina’s\u00a0Baylor Nelson<\/strong> by just one hundredth, 1:49.27 to 1:49.28. Nelson out-split Burns by a full second on the last 50, but Burns barely had enough to hang on.<\/p>\n

Indiana’s\u00a0Mackenzie Looze<\/strong>, daughter of Indiana head coach and U.S. Olympic assistant coach Ray Looze<\/strong>, dominated the women’s 200 breast with her time of 2:28.13, while Ohio State’s\u00a0Josie Panitz<\/strong> took second in 2:31.77.\u00a0Sofia Plaza<\/strong> was third in 2:33.43.<\/p>\n

Long Island Aquatic Club captured first in the women’s 400 free relay in 3:43.59, with\u00a0Tess Howley<\/strong> (55.80),\u00a0Joanie Cash\u00a0<\/strong>(57.45) and Gormsen (55.40) setting up anchor\u00a0Chloe Stepanek<\/strong>, who split a swift 54.94.<\/p>\n