Miriam Sheehan Breaks Puerto Rican Record at Iowa Long Course Championships

2022 Iowa Lengthy Course Championships

11 LSC Data had been damaged final weekend on the 2022 Iowa Lengthy Course Championships.

The Iowa LSC consists of many of the state of Iowa, although the less-populated westernmost counties of the state compete within the Midwestern Swimming LSC as a substitute.

Among the many weekend’s record-breakers was Tokyo 2020 Olympian Miriam Sheehan, who gained the 100 free in 55.95. That breaks the Iowa 17-18 LSC Report for the 17-year previous.

Sheehan grew up coaching within the Phoenix space, the place she broke quite a lot of US Nationwide Age Group Data. In 2018, when she was 13, she started representing Puerto Rico internationally, and is presently the proprietor of 11 Puerto Rican Data. She now trains with the Dubuque Space Swimmin’ Hurricanes in Iowa.

Her 100 free was in need of including a twelfth file to her listing: Vanessa Garcia nonetheless holds that one with a 55.00 from 2010.

Iowa data weren’t the one ones she broke within the meet, although: Sheehan additionally gained the 100 fly in 59.94. That’s her first time below 1 minute in that occasion and the time breaks her personal Puerto Rican Report of 1:00.01 set on the 2019 World Junior Championships. Sheehan turns 18 this 12 months, and thus is simply too previous to symbolize Puerto Rican on the 2022 World Junior Championships subsequent month.

Sheehan got here shut to some different Puerto Rican data as effectively. She swam a greatest time of two:04.95 within the 200 free (six-tenths from the Puerto Rican Report). She additionally gained the 100 again (1:03.54) and 50 free (25.96) individually, which made her the meet’s second-highest scorer within the senior age group (100 factors).

The one swimmer to attain extra was Des Moines’ Annie Honkamp (101 factors), who didn’t win any particular person occasions however recorded seven finishes within the prime 6 locations, together with a variety of occasions from the 100 breast all the best way as much as the 1500 free.

The boys’ excessive scoring instructed the same story. 16-year previous Joe Polyak scored essentially the most factors (98) with seven A-final swims and no wins, however his teammate Isaac Weigel (90 factors) grabbed essentially the most particular person gold medals with three.

Weigel gained the 200 IM (2:08.71), 200 free (1:53.35), and 100 free (51.58) on the meet. Weigel simply accomplished his first season of school swimming at Dartmouth, the place he completed as excessive as sixth place on the Ivy League Championships within the 200 yard free.

Different Highlights within the Senior Age Group:

• Asher Havenhill swam a relay leadoff 100 backstroke in 57.88, hitting his first Summer season Junior Nationals lower in lengthy course (he’s already certified within the 100 and 200 backstroke in yards). Havenhill is a rising highschool junior dedicated to swim at Arizona State in fall 2023. In complete, he hit greatest instances in 7 occasions he swam at this meet.
• Scarlet Martin of the Iowa Flyers, in her final LSC Championship earlier than heading to the College of Florida, didn’t win any races, however did hit 4 private bests. That features a 26.75 within the 50 free and 57.84 within the 100 free. Her future Florida group actually must construct out its dash corps, so her enhancements will probably be tantalizing for head coach Anthony Nesty.
• 15-year previous Hayden Hakes swam 59.34 within the 100 backstroke, which places him within the prime 25 American 15-year olds this 12 months in that occasion.

Age Group Highlights

There have been quite a lot of multi-winners throughout the age teams at this meet, however possibly essentially the most spectacular amongst these was 14-year previous Hudson Huberg of the Iowa Flyers Swim Membership. By FINA factors, he had the 9 greatest swims within the boys’ 13-14 age group on the meet, choosing up wins within the 50 free (23.93), 100 free (53.59), 200 free (1:59.74), and 400 free (4:20.32). He additionally added private bests within the 100 fly (1:00.90) and 200 IM (2:17.03).

His 50 free time was a brand new Iowa LSC Report, knocking .11 seconds off the previous file held by Diggory Dillingham. Dillingham, who now trains in Oregon, is presently the quickest 50 yard freestyler in the highschool class of 2023. At 14, that swim qualifies Huberg for Summer season Juniors. His greatest time coming into the meet was 24.63 from a Sectionals meet in March.

Huberg is now the #4 ranked 13-14 boy within the age group within the US in 2022, and #16-ranked boy within the age group all-time.

Heberg started swimming within the small western-Iowa city of Spencer with the native YMCA. Spencer is the most important city in a county of solely 16,000 individuals. Marie Koenigsfeld, a coordinator on the LSC, says that the household contacted them when he was 10 or 11 to become involved with the USA Swimming scene, and the household ultimately moved to Cedar Rapids due to his mother and father’ work – the place Heberg has flourished at IFLY.

The most important winner of the day was one other IFLY swimmer, 11-year previous Caite Schaffel. The 11-year previous, despite being on the youthful finish of the 11-12 age group, went an ideal 9-for-9 in particular person occasions on the meet, along with three relay wins on a busy weekend.

She gained the 200 free, 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM, and 400 IM on the meet in a herculean effort.

She was the very best scorer throughout all age teams on the meet.

Different Age Group Highlights:

• Maelyn Woltz of Black Hawk Swim Workforce very-nearly matched Schaffel’s feat. She gained 8 races on the meet, and in addition grabbed a runner-up end within the 50 fly. Woltz gained races throughout all 5 disciplines (together with IM0, and each distance from 50 meters to 400 meters.