{"id":574200,"date":"2023-12-06T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T01:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=574200"},"modified":"2023-12-06T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T01:49:50","slug":"winter-junior-nationals-thomas-heilman-maximus-williamson-put-on-200-free-show-at-separate-sites-both-set-nag-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/winter-junior-nationals-thomas-heilman-maximus-williamson-put-on-200-free-show-at-separate-sites-both-set-nag-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Junior Nationals: Thomas Heilman, Maximus Williamson Put on 200 Free Show at Separate Sites, Both Set NAG Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter Junior Nationals: Thomas Heilman, Maximus Williamson Put on 200 Free Show at Separate Sites, Both Set NAG Records<\/strong><\/p>\n

A pair of future University of Virginia teammates<\/a>, both regarded as future stars<\/a> on the international scene<\/a>, competed at the two different sites of U.S. Winter Junior Nationals to see who could lay down the more impressive performance in the 200-yard freestyle. Both Thomas Heilman<\/strong> and\u00a0Maximus Williamson<\/strong> broke National Age Group records in the event leading off their respective team’s 800 free relays to launch what will surely be prolific meets for both men.<\/p>\n

At the east site in Columbus, Ohio, Heilman led off Cavalier Aquatics’ relay in 1:32.46, crushing the previous NAG mark of 1:33.07 set by Williamson last year by six tenths. Heilman was joined by David King<\/strong>,\u00a0Will Browne<\/strong> and\u00a0Will Charlton<\/strong> on the way to a winning time of 6:24.56. Carmel’s team of\u00a0Gregg Enoch<\/strong>,\u00a0Andrew Shackell<\/strong>,\u00a0Lewis Zhang<\/strong> and\u00a0Michael Gorey<\/strong> finished second in 6:29.73, with SwimMAC Carolina’s\u00a0Freddy Klein<\/strong>,\u00a0Granger Bartee<\/strong>,\u00a0Santi Alzate\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jack Haywood<\/strong> third in 6:30.19.<\/p>\n

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Maximus Williamson — Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

About one hour later in Westmont, Ill., Williamson had an even more impressive swim up his sleeve. He led off Lakeside Aquatic Club’s relay in 1:32.00, breaking\u00a0Maxime Rooney’s<\/strong> prior NAG record of 1:32.18 from 2017. Williamson was followed by Cooper Lucas<\/strong>, who split 1:33.57, before\u00a0Max Hatcher<\/strong> and\u00a0River Paulk<\/strong> finished off the win in 6:20.34. That entire relay also set a NAG record, knocking almost three seconds off the Carmel’s time of 6:23.21 from 2019, with a relay team that included future U.S. Olympian\u00a0Jake Mitchell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rose Bowl took second in 6:29.54 with\u00a0Daniel Li<\/strong>,\u00a0Logan Noguchi<\/strong>,\u00a0Ray Liu<\/strong> and\u00a0Nathan Kim<\/strong>, followed by Irvine Novaquatics’\u00a0Andrew Maksymowski<\/strong>, Will Chen<\/strong>,\u00a0Derek Hitchens<\/strong> and\u00a0Glen Santos<\/strong> in 6:33.05.<\/p>\n

The Lakeside boys also grabbed a 200 medley relay win at the Westmont meet, albeit in a much closer race. Williamson led off with a 21.96 backstroke split before Lucas,\u00a0Riccardo Osio<\/strong> and Paulk finished off a 1:27.41 win. In this race, the top three teams were split by less than two tenths.\u00a0Aquajets’\u00a0Luke Logue<\/strong>,\u00a0Jack Hackler<\/strong>,\u00a0Micah Davis<\/strong> and\u00a0Conner Hogan<\/strong> placed second in 1:27.52, followed by FMC’s\u00a0Szymon Mieczkowski<\/strong>,\u00a0Brady Johnson<\/strong>,\u00a0Jeffrey Hou<\/strong> and\u00a0Dominic Mazurek<\/strong> in 1:27.58.<\/p>\n

In Columbus, Nashville Aquatic Club edged out a Heilman-led Cavalier team for the relay win.\u00a0Blake Amlicke<\/strong>,\u00a0Gray Attmore<\/strong>,\u00a0Spencer Nicholas<\/strong> and\u00a0Mack Schumann<\/strong> clocked a mark of 1:26.16, winning by nine hundredths over Cavalier while also breaking the 17-18 NAG record of 1:26.43 set by Spartan Aquatic Club in 2020. Cavalier’s King,\u00a0Max Moore<\/strong>, Heilman and Brown touched in 1:26.25, with Heilman blasting a 19.87 butterfly split, while Lakeside Swim Team’s\u00a0Johnny Crush<\/strong>,\u00a0Wilson York<\/strong>,\u00a0Thomas Mercer<\/strong> and\u00a0Alex Thiesing<\/strong> placed third (1:28.12).<\/p>\n