{"id":656284,"date":"2026-10-29T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=656284"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:56:11","slug":"u-s-world-short-course-trials-day-two-prelims-tyler-ray-van-mathias-hit-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-world-short-course-trials-day-two-prelims-tyler-ray-van-mathias-hit-records\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. World Short Course Trials, Day Two Prelims: Tyler Ray, Van Mathias Hit Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. World Short Course Trials, Day Two Prelims: Tyler Ray, Van Mathias Hit Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Ray<\/strong> and <strong>Van Mathias<\/strong> started the first full day of U.S. World Short Course Trials with record swims Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Ray equaled the U.S. Open record in the men\u2019s 100 butterfly by going 48.47 in the first event of the morning in Westmont, Illinois. Mathias lowered <strong>Nic Fink\u2019s<\/strong> American record in the 100 breaststroke with his time of 55.48 seconds, which is also the U.S. Open mark.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2026\/2026-SCM-trials-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-world-short-course-trials-day-one-finals-ryan-erisman-moves-to-no-5-all-time-american-in-800-freestyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Night 1 Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the action from the first prelims session:<\/p>\n<h3>Men\u2019s 100 butterfly<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Tyler Ray<\/strong> upstage a star-studded field, at least in prelims. His time of 48.47 matches what <strong>Noe Ponti<\/strong> did in this same pool last October during the World Cup for the U.S. Open record. It gives Ray a middle lane for the night when the competition is going to be chasing him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luca Urlando<\/strong> was second in 48.66. American-again <strong>Ilya Kharun<\/strong> was third in 48.93, with <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> fourth in 49.76. <strong>Dare Rose<\/strong> is also lurking in fifth at 50.02.<\/p>\n<h3>Women\u2019s 50 backstroke<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s an easy lift to fill out the finals, with only eight Americans among 10 swimmers all advancing. <strong>Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> led the way in 25.50. She is ahead of <strong>Olivia Smoliga\u2019s<\/strong> 25.73 and <strong>Claire Curzan\u2019s<\/strong> 25.77. It\u2019s a gap back to fourth-place <strong>Isabelle Stadden, <\/strong>who went 26.21.<\/p>\n<h3>Men\u2019s 200 backstroke<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Destin Lasco<\/strong> was head and shoulders out in front of the field, winning prelims in 1:48.96, a margin of 2.52 seconds over any of the chasers. Second was <strong>Gabriel Jett<\/strong> in 1:51.48, with <strong>Owen McDonald<\/strong> .06 seconds behind. <strong>Jack Dahlgren<\/strong> finished fourth in 1:52.55.<\/p>\n<h3>Women\u2019s 200 breaststroke<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking of domination, <strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> was more than four seconds clear of the field, going 2:16.83 to get the top seed. Second is her UVA training mate <strong>Alex Walsh,<\/strong> but it\u2019s a distant one at 2:20.99. There\u2019s another two-plus seconds back to <strong>Mia Cheatwood<\/strong> in third, followed by Maddy Huggins.<\/p>\n<h3>Men\u2019s 100 breaststroke<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Van Mathias<\/strong> is off to a rocketing start, the Indiana swimmer going 55.48 to down the American record set in 2021 by <strong>Nic Fink<\/strong> (55.56) and the U.S. Open Record set in 2019 by <strong>Adam Peaty<\/strong> during the International Swimming League season (55.92).<\/p>\n<p>Mathias was a second up on one-time training mate <strong>Brian Benzing,<\/strong> who went 56.54. There\u2019s a gab in finals back to <strong>Andy Dobrzanski\u2019s<\/strong> 57.59, which starts a cluster of five swimmers within .15 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Third in prelims was Swedish international <strong>Oliver Munn<\/strong> in 57.30. That is a national record, downing <strong>Erik Persson\u2019s<\/strong> 2021 mark of 57.51, but he won\u2019t be in the Americans-only finals.<\/p>\n<h3>Women\u2019s 400 freestyle<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rylee Erisman<\/strong> is putting herself in position for a worlds berth in the 400 free to join her brother. She led the eight-swimmer field in prelims at 4:08.47, six tenths up on <strong>Claire Weinstein. Chloe Stepanek<\/strong> was a second back in 4:09.60, the only other swimmer to crack 4:11.<\/p>\n<h4>Women\u2019s 50 freestyle<\/h4>\n<p>Back in the water again, <strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> topped the field in the 50 free with a time of 22.87. That\u2019s .12 off the newly minted world record of <strong>Gretchen Walsh,<\/strong> who coasted into the second seed in 23.20.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Clark is the third seed in finals after a time of 23.49, a tenth up on <strong>Camille Spink.<\/strong> <strong>Caroline Larsen<\/strong> was third, followed by <strong>Cadence Vincent, Torri Huske<\/strong> and <strong>Olivia Smoliga.<\/strong> That leaves no room for <strong>Simone Manuel,<\/strong> who finished 11th.<\/p>\n<h3>Men\u2019s 50 freestyle<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Chris Guiliano<\/strong> leads a crowded pack in the 50 free with a studded final eight. He topped the field in prelims with a time of 20.63 seconds, .03 up on <strong>Jack Alexy.<\/strong> Next came three swimmers facing doubles, with <strong>Ilya Kharun<\/strong> third in 20.73, <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> fourth in 20.84 and <strong>Van Mathias<\/strong> fifth in 20.87.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tolu Young<\/strong> of Arizona State was sixth in 20.89, with the Fijian international likely not in the final despite being designated as such. There\u2019s a tie for seventh between <strong>Jonny Kulow<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Chaney<\/strong> in 21.05 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-buddies-adam-chaney-jonny-kulow-author-classic-double-swim-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for the love of god doesn\u2019t require a double swim-off<\/a>. <strong>Brendan Whitfield<\/strong> is the first alternate though should take Young\u2019s spot in 21.12.<\/p>\n<p>Among those on the outside looking in are <strong>Matt King, Patrick Sammon<\/strong> and <strong>Brooks Curry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Women\u2019s 200 butterfly<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Regan Smith<\/strong> dominated the prelims field with a time of 2:03.73 in the same pool where she set her American and U.S. Open records last October. <strong>Alex Shackell<\/strong> was second in 2:05.28, less than two tenths up on <strong>Rachel Clinker. Lillie Nordman<\/strong> was fourth in 2:08.55, followed by a pair of internationals in <strong>Lea Polonsky<\/strong> and <strong>Julia Ullmann.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Men\u2019s 400 freestyle<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Luke Hobson<\/strong> was the narrow first choice in prelims of the 400 with a time of 3:40.38. American record holder <strong>Kieran Smith<\/strong> was .05 seconds behind, and <strong>Mitchell Schott<\/strong> was a tenth back of that in 3:40.59 to lead the way. It\u2019s a small gap back to <strong>Ryan Erisman\u2019s<\/strong> 3:41.58. The next American is more than nine seconds back in <strong>Luke Brennan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth overall in the morning was Alabama\u2019s <strong>Leonardo Alcantara<\/strong> in 3:41.93.<\/p>\n<h3>Women\u2019s 100 individual medley<\/h3>\n<p>In her second race of the morning, <strong>Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> went 57.84 to ease to the top seed in the IM. She was 1.09 seconds clear of <strong>Phoebe Bacon,<\/strong> who went 58.93. <strong>Torri Huske<\/strong> was third in 59.63. Walsh is the world record holder at 55.11.<\/p>\n<h3>Men\u2019s 100 individual medley<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Maximus Williamson<\/strong> capped the morning with the top seed in 51.36. He\u2019s a half-second up on <strong>Grant House\u2019s<\/strong> 51.84, with <strong>Owen McDonald<\/strong> a further hundredth behind. <strong>Logan Robinson<\/strong> was fourth. <strong>Caeleb Dressel,<\/strong> in his third swim, was fifth in 52.14, a spot up on <strong>Michael Andrew<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. World Short Course Trials, Day Two Prelims: Tyler Ray, Van Mathias Hit Records Tyler Ray and Van Mathias started the first full day of U.S. World Short Course Trials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":640358,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[123031,25942,58437,25010,56016,138653,45350,133850,135008,63186],"class_list":["post-656284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-chris-guiliano","tag-destin-lasco","tag-gretchen-walsh","tag-kate-douglass","tag-katharine-berkoff","tag-oliver-munn","tag-regan-smith","tag-rylee-erisman","tag-tyler-ray","tag-van-mathias"],"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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