14-Year-Old Kayla Han Swims 4:11.34 400 Free At Indy Sectionals

2023 INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDO SECTIONALS

• March 23-26, 2023
• IU Natatorium – IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Lengthy Course Meters (50 meters)
• Psych Sheet
• Meet Outcomes (Put up Session, underneath “Meet Days”)
• Meet Outcomes on Meet Cell: “Spring 2023 Speedo Sectionals”

Yesterday marked the third day of racing on the 2023 Indianapolis Speedo Sectionals, with swimmers taking up the 100 again, 400 free, 100 breast, 200 fly, and the 800 relay for the lads.

Highlighting the night for the each the women and men was the 400 freestyle. Olympian Drew Kibler obtained his hand on the wall first within the males’s race, touching in a private greatest time of three:52.25. Kibler’s earlier greatest time stood at 3:52.75, which he had accomplished again in 2019. The closest he had been since then was a 3:54.63, which he swam at thePro Swim cease in Fort Lauderdale earlier this month.

Kibler, who returned to Carmel to coach, has been on fireplace this weekend. He opened his meet with a private greatest time within the 50 free, then returned the subsequent day to submit a world-leading 200 freestyle. His remaining occasion would be the 100 freestyle, set to happen at the moment.

18-year-old Aaron Shackell completed simply 0.17 behind Kibler to take 2nd in a greatest time of three:52.42. Shackell, a Cal commit, practically ran down Kibler within the remaining 100. Shackell closed in 57.93, which is nearly a second quicker than Kibler’s remaining break up (58.83). Shackell took off three seconds from his earlier greatest time, and is now ranked forty second all-time within the 17-18 age group.

14-year-old Kayla Han threw a greatest time of 4:11.34 to win the ladies’s 400 freestyle. She dropped practically two seconds from her earlier better of 4:13.22, which she swum on the Worldwide Workforce Trials final April. Her time strikes her from twelfth to sixth all-time amongst 13-14 women.

15-year-old Lynsey Bowen completed 2nd, additionally with an enormous greatest time. Bowen stopped the clock at 4:12.28, which is over seven seconds quicker than the very best time she set at this meet a 12 months in the past. Bowen nonetheless has over a 12 months remaining within the 15-16 age group, however her swim at present ranks her forty ninth all-time.

Carmel’s Molly Sweeney cracked the 1:10-barrier for the primary time within the girls’s 100 breaststroke. The 15-year-old touched 1st in a 1:08.83, which is a second and a half drop from her greatest set at Summer season Juniors. Sweeney’s time put her fifteenth within the 15-16 all-time rankings. Dani Karnaugh and Mary Elizabeth Cespedes additionally secured Olympic Trial cuts within the occasion, as they completed at 1:09.73 and 1:09.83, respectively.

Josh Bey from the Highland Hurricanes received the lads’s 100 breaststroke. The 16-year-old dropped over two seconds on the day to submit a 1:02.44, transferring him to #16 all-time for 15-16 boys.

Daniel Diehl got here inside a second of his personal Nationwide Age Group (NAG) within the males’s 100 backstroke. Diehl, 17, posted a 53.70, marking his 4th-fastest time ever within the occasion.

Different Occasion Winners:

• Carmel’s Berit Berglund received the ladies’s 100 backstroke with a 1:01.00. The swim was not a private greatest, however secured Berglund her Olympic Trials reduce as her PB was accomplished earlier than the qualifying window opened.
• Gregg Enoch from Carmel dominated the lads’s 200 fly. He cleared the sphere by about two seconds to submit his 2nd-fastest time ever at 2:01.98.
• Alex Shackell topped the ladies’s 200 fly subject, stopping the clock at 2:10.90 to come back inside a second of her PB. Lainy Kruger took 2nd at 2:12.96, and in addition secured an Olympic Trials qualifying time.
• SwimMac’s workforce of Norvin Clontz (1:52.16), Jack Haywood (1:56.42), Alex Ayers (1:54.60), and Caleb Madari (1:52.90) mixed for a successful time of seven:36.08 within the males’s 800 freestyle relay. The quickest break up of the occasion belonged to Will Modglin from Zionsville Swim Membership, who anchored in 1:51.50.