2024 NOVATO SECTIONALS
Brooke Boak impressed on the ultimate day of Novato Sectionals with a personal-best 25.20 on her solution to the ladies’s 50 freestyle win on Sunday evening.
The 37-year-old Stanford alum shaved .14 seconds off her previous-best 25.24 from March, which was her first time swimming the 50 free for the reason that 2008 Olympic Trials. Boak wound up inserting twenty eighth on the U.S. Olympic Trials final month in 25.38.
Indiana commit (’25) Liberty Clark earned the runner-up end within the 50 free in 25.95, inside half a second of her personal-best 25.50 from Might. The Crow Canyon Nation Membership Sharks 16-year-old is a two-sport star who additionally performs volleyball.
Rising San Jose State senior Ela Freiman took the ladies’s 200 IM title in 2:19.79, dropping greater than a second off her previous-best 2:20.82 from final month. She beat Crow Canyon Nation Membership Sharks 16-year-old Raya Mellott (2:19.89) by only a tenth of a second. Mellott, a Virginia commit (’25), shaved a pair tenths off her previous-best 2:20.16 from final August.
Crow Canyon Nation Membership Sharks 18-year-old Devyn Caples got here away with the boys’s 200 IM victory in 2:05.36, narrowly lacking his personal-best 2:05.35 from April. Rising College of the Pacific senior Mitchell Hopper crushed his finest time from 2022 by virtually six seconds with a 2nd-place exhibiting in 2:06.29.
A pair of North Bay Aquatics 18-year-olds had an exhilarating battle within the males’s 50 free. Denison commit (’24) Harry Parsons dropped 4 tenths off his lifetime finest (23.34), nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient for the win as Harvard commit (’24) Marre Gattnar prevailed in 23.03. Gattnar touched inside a tenth of his personal-best 22.96 from Might.
Alto Swim Membership 16-year-old Garic Shao executed an enormous time drop within the males’s 1500 free to drag out the victory in 16:03.29. He dropped greater than 23 seconds off his previous-best 16:26.70 from February. LaMirada Armada 17-year-old Leon Mikulski earned the runner-up end in 16:14.47, crushing his previous-best 16:32.77 from February by 18 seconds.
Crow Canyon Nation Membership Sharks 16-year-old Lillyana Caples captured the ladies’s 800 free crown in 9:03.43, about 10 seconds off her personal-best 8:52.68 from Might. It was nonetheless sufficient to skirt previous LaMirada Armada 17-year-old Mayu Yager (9:14.99), who dropped virtually 4 seconds off her previous-best 9:18.94 from April.
