Carmel Swim Club came away with the combined title thanks to a mostly balanced scoring between their boys and girls. Current photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography

After winning the 200 back earlier this week, Flood’s Josh Zuchowski comes in as the top qualifier in the boys 200 IM tonight.

Lucy Thomas was part of Elmbrook’s NAG record-setting relay on Friday. Check out all A final race videos from night five of the Junior National Championships

15-year-old Chloe Kim out of Scarlet Aquatics took 2nd, swimming a 16:28.77, while 16-year-old teammate Kate Hurst was 3rd in 16:37.22. 

This morning’s prelims session will be a short one, featuring just the 200 IM and 50 free.

He sits behind only Michael Andrew, who holds the 13-14 NAG at 2:04.13.

August 07th, 2022 Club, National, News

The 2022 Summer Junior Nationals is now in the books, so let’s take a moment to examine the final team scores. Carmel Swim Club won the combined team title, while Dynamo Swim Club won the boys’ title, and Elmbrook Swim Club took the girls’ title.

Carmel Swim Club came away with the combined title thanks to a mostly balanced scoring between their boys and girls. CSC came in 2nd in girls scoring, while the boys team finished 6th overall. Here is Carmel Swim Club’s roster from the meet:

Leading the way for Carmel was the sibling duo of Alex Shackell and Aaron Shackell. Alex was one of the highest scoring individuals of the meet, racking up 65 individual points, despite not racing an individual event on the last day of the meet. She swept the girls fly events, winning the 100 fly in 58.33 and the 200 fly in 2:09.44. Just 15 years old, Shackell also took 3rd in the 100 free, and won the ‘B’ final of the 200 free, taking 9th overall. She also was pivotal in Carmel’s relays, helping lead the 800 free relay to victory, the 200 medley and 200 free relays to 2nd place finishes, a 3rd place finish in the 400 free relay, and a 5th place finish in the 400 medley relay.

Impressively, Carmel Swim Club’s ‘B’ girls 400 free relay also scored team points, finishing 14th.

Meanwhile, 17-year-old Aaron Shackell scored 49 points individually, swimming a nearly identical schedule to his sister. Aaron also won the 200 fly, taking the boys event in 1:57.42. He also took 4th in the 400 free and 5th in the 200 free. Shackell was also in the ‘C’ final of the 100 free, finishing 20th overall. While Carmel Swim Club’s boys relays didn’t finish as highly as their girls relays, they still accumulated quite a few points. Their highest finishing boys relay was the 800 free relay, which took 4th. Carmel’s 400 free relay was also on the podium, finishing 5th. The medley relays were strong as well, with the 400 medley coming in 9th and the 200 medley 10th. Their 200 free relay was a little further back, finishing 15th, but that was still good to contribute 4 points to the team score.

Dynamo Swim Club handily won the boys team title, outscoring runner-up Nitro Swimming by 59 points. Dynamo scored massive relay points but had some highly productive individual swimmers as well. 18-year-old Owen McDonald scored 57 points, taking 3rd in the boys 400 IM, 4th in the 200 free, 5th in the 200 IM, 9th in the 200 fly, 14th in the 200 back, and 16th in the 200 back. McDonald was also critical in helping Dynamo’s boys relays to Junior National titles in the 200 medley, 200 free, and 400 free relays. They also took 4th in the 400 medley relay and 6th in the 800 free relay.

Idris Muhammad, who is a rising sophomore at Purdue, but is competing for Dynamo this summer, picked up 26 individual points. Muhammad finished 5th in the boys 100 back and 7th in the 50 free. He also turned some heads in the 200 free relay, where he anchored Dynamo to victory with a sizzling 22.26.

Here is Dynamo Swim Club’s boys team roster for the meet:

The girls team race was probably the most exciting of the meet. Carmel Swim Club was leading the standings heading into the final day of the meet, but Elmbrook Swim Club overtook them during the final session, ultimately winning the girls title by 27 points.

Elmbrook Swim Club was strong in scoring individual points, however, they had a nearly perfect performance in the girls relays. The only relay Elmbrook didn’t win at these Junior Nationals was the 800 free relay, where they finished 2nd to Carmel. In the 200 medley, 400 medley, 200 free, and 400 free relays, EBSC won the title, breaking several 15-18 National Age Group Records as well.

Individually, 16-year-old Lucy Thomas was huge for her team, winning the girls 100 breast and finishing 14th in the 100 free. In a grueling triple on the final day of the meet, Thomas took 12th in the 200 IM before posting a 3rd place finish in the 50 free. She then went on to aid the 400 medley relay to a decisive victory with a 1:09.56 breaststroke split that evening as well.

16-year-old teammate Maggie Wanezek was big for the team too, winning the 100 back and taking 4th in the 200 back. She was also a member of all 5 EBSC relays.

Here is Elmbrook Swim Club’s girls roster for the meet:

Can u tell us what State or LSC each team is from?

Google. Your like my parents who email me what the schedule is for the fall. Go to the website it’s posted. WTG 2 South texas teams.

How is Idris Muhammad eligible for this meet if he’s going into his sophomore year of college?

It’s an 18 and under meet?

It’s based on age, not grade level. There are some swimmers who haven’t started college yet but have already turned 19 – like Baylor Nelson – who aren’t eligible. Idris is a year ahead of most his age in college – he doesn’t turn 19 until January, so will actually be eligible for Winter Juniors as well.

I don’t know the exact reason he’s younger than his class, but I have a good guess, given that he’s an aerospace engineering major at Purdue while competing at a high level in Division I athletics. He’ll basically write his own ticket to any job he wants when he finishes that. Smart guy.

Well, swimmers never think of the swimmers with dyslexia or ADD which probably means not as a good student as a kid. Michael Phelps has ADD and Amanda Beard had dyslexia. Its not fun as a kid since I had dyslexia and had to pushed to learn to read.

How do teams who chose to attend Futures instead of Juniors affect the score .

They will score less points at juniors.

Proud Atlantan – with two Clubs in the Top 10!

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