{"id":484791,"date":"2021-08-05T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=484791"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:11:31","slug":"speedo-summer-championships-14-year-old-alex-shackell-rips-swift-100-butterfly-in-greensbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/speedo-summer-championships-14-year-old-alex-shackell-rips-swift-100-butterfly-in-greensbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedo Summer Championships: 14-Year-Old Alex Shackell Rips Swift 100 Butterfly in Greensboro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speedo Summer Championships: 14-Year-Old Alex Shackell Rips Swift 100 Butterfly in Greensboro<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the middle evening of racing at the Speedo Summer Championships in Greensboro, N.C., a 14-year-old from Indiana defeated a swimmer more than twice her age and swam almost as fast as any swimmer her age ever has. In the women’s 100 butterfly, Alex Shackell<\/strong>, who represents Carmel Swim Club, went out in 27.52 and then held off a late charge from Columbus’\u00a0Leah Gingrich<\/strong>. Shackell touched the wall in 59.61, just 0.11 ahead of the 31-year-old Gingrich in 59.72. Teenagers\u00a0Gigi Johnson <\/strong>of Swim Atlanta (59.91) and\u00a0Tess Howley<\/strong> of Long Island (59.92) broke 1:00 to take third and fourth, respectively.<\/p>\n

The men’s 400 IM saw Club Wolverine’s\u00a0Charlie Swanson<\/strong> grab the win in 4:14.33, about three seconds off his lifetime best of 4:11.46. Swanson got his meet off to a strong start Wednesday when he placed first in the 200 breast and broke 2:10.<\/a> SwimMAC’s Baylor Nelson<\/strong> continued his strong meet with a 4:20.78 for second, and Club Wolverine’s\u00a0Jared Daigle<\/strong> took third in 4:23.05. Indiana’s\u00a0Mackenzie Looze<\/strong> used a stellar breaststroke leg to pull ahead of the field and tak the win in the women’s 400 IM, with Jersey Wahoos’\u00a0Erin Cavanagh<\/strong> (4:49.58) and Wolfpack Elite’s\u00a0Yara Hierath<\/strong> (4:51.13) taking second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n

The only other individual event on the day was the men’s 100 fly, and SwimMAC’s\u00a0Tim Connery\u00a0<\/strong>won that in 53.07, using a blazing back half to overcome Treasure Coast’s\u00a0Mitchell Ledford<\/strong>, who ended up just 0.01 behind in 53.08. Cincinnati Marlins’\u00a0Aaron Sequeira<\/strong> was third in 53.56.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Long Island Aquatic Club’s team of\u00a0Sophia Karras<\/strong>,\u00a0Chloe Stepanek<\/strong>, Howley and\u00a0Cavan Gormsen<\/strong> earned an 800 freestyle relay victory in 8:09.48.<\/p>\n