2022 NCSA Junior Nationwide Championships
- March 15-19, 2022
- Rosen Aquatic and Health Heart, Orlando, Florida
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards), Prelims/Finals
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
The 2022 NCSA Junior Nationwide Championships kick off Tuesday morning in Orlando, Florida and can run by means of Saturday.
Whereas not fairly as deep as USA Swimming’s Junior Nationwide Championships, the meet nonetheless serves as one of many largest and greatest within the nation, with swimmers representing most of the greatest groups within the Jap United States.
We’ve seen an unbelievable quantity of quick age group swimming over the previous couple of months, and there’s each purpose to assume there will likely be a lot extra in Orlando this week.
With a lot expertise colliding right here, it’s not possible to cowl the entire massive names and storylines in-depth, however right here’s only a few of the issues that stood out as we take a look at the psych sheet.
First, we’ll begin with one swimmer who really gained’t be competing, and that’s Lengthy Island Aquatic Membership’s Cavan Gormsen. The 17 year-old’s identify tops the psych sheet within the three longest freestyle occasions, however she is outwardly sick and won’t be competing this week.
However, one other 17 year-old leads the psych sheet in a distinct set of freestyle occasions, and that’s NCAP’s Camille Spink. The Tennessee recruit is coming off of a number of wins on the Virginia Class 6 Excessive College Championships, was a part of a record-setting relay on the PVS Championships, and leads the sphere within the 50, 100, and 200 free.
TNT’s Levenia Sim additionally had a powerful winter, and though she’s solely lately turned 15, she leads the 100 again subject with a seed time of 51.03, a time that put her #1 all-time within the 13-14 age group. She’s additionally seeded within the prime 5 within the 200 again, 100 fly, and the 200 fly.
Zoe Dixon of NOVA leads the IM psych sheets with occasions of 1:56.29 and 4:08.06, respectively, and the Gators commit has a large margin over the remainder of the sphere within the 400.
The breaststroke occasions are shaping as much as be nice battles. Elmbrook’s Lucy Thomas is seeded #1 within the 100 with a time of 59.32, however WILD’s Kaelyn Gridley is the one different girl seeded beneath a minute, with a 59.92. The scenario is flipped within the 200, the place Gridley leads with a 2:10.25 seed time, and Thomas is the one different girl beneath 2:12.6 with a 2:10.88.
On the boys’s facet, three swimmers maintain prime seeds in two occasions (not counting the 50 strokes, the place seeding is predicated off 100 occasions).
Levi Sandidge of the Metropolis of Richardson swim crew, is the one man seeded beneath 9 minutes within the 1000 free (8:59.87), and he’s additionally the one man seeded beneath 15:00 within the 1650 (14:57.96). Sandidge, one of many prime distance recruits in the highschool class of 2022, is heading to Kentucky subsequent yr.
Sandidge’s teammate Giovanni Linscheer is seeded 2nd behind Sandige within the 1650, and he additionally holds the highest seed within the 400 IM (3:48.08) and the five hundred free (4:22.98). Sandidge is the #2 seed within the 500 free, so look ahead to the teammates to battle it out in a number of evens this week.
On the shorter finish of the spectrum, the Hurricanes’ Charlie Crosby leads the psych sheet within the 50 free (19.57) and the 100 again (46.41). Crosby. These are the 2 identical occasions Crosby, a Texas commit, gained on the Minnesota Excessive College Class A State Championship a pair weeks in the past.
The boys’s facet can even function among the prime highschool recruits within the nation within the type of guys like Nathaniel Germonprez, Josh Zuchowksi, Landon Gentry, and Toby Barnett, amongst loads of others, establishing loads of nice races.
