2024 Columbus Sectionals
- July 18-21, 2024
- Columbus, Ohio
- McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion at Ohio State College
- LCM (50 meters)
- Outcomes on MeetMobile: “2024OH CZ East Speedo Sectionals”
A number of Ohio State swimmers earned victories to kick off Columbus Sectionals on Thursday, highlighted by a lifetime finest from rising Buckeye junior Krista Marlin within the ladies’s 200 backstroke.
Marlin captured the 200 again crown in 2:10.19, reducing her previous-best 2:10.26 from final month’s U.S. Olympic Trials, the place she positioned thirteenth. She touched a couple of seconds forward of Tennessee commit (’24) Emily Brown (2:13.41), who dropped a couple of tenths off her previous-best 2:13.73 from final July on her option to 2nd place.
A pair of 16-year-old boys impressed within the 200 backstroke. Nice Waves Aquatics’ Paul Moody crushed his finest time by greater than two seconds to the touch first in 2:02.33, rating No. 54 within the U.S. boys 15-16 nationwide age group (NAG) rankings. Northern Kentucky Clippers’ Chase Knopf reached the wall proper behind Moody in 2:02.47, knocking virtually two seconds off his previous-best 2:04.46 from final month.
Ohio State teammates Package Kat Zenick and Teresa Ivan tied for the ladies’s 50 free title in 25.64, the one two swimmers beneath 26 seconds within the last. Zenick, a current graduate, positioned forty sixth at Trials final month (25.69) and has been as quick as 25.49 final July. Ivan positioned tenth eventually month’s European Championships (25.24) and owns a lifetime better of 25.15 from final June.
The boys’s 50 free title went to current Buckeye graduate Mario McDonald (22.60), who eked previous rising Ohio State senior Daniel Baltes (22.62). McDonald, who positioned thirty ninth at Trials (22.71), was only a blink off his personal-best 22.55 from final July. Baltes positioned eleventh at Trials with a lifetime finest of twenty-two.14. One other Buckeye, rising junior Evan Fentress, was shut behind with Third-place displaying in 22.68, reducing his previous-best 22.86 from final Could.
Michigan Lakeshore Aquatics 17-year-old Sophia Umstead got here out on high within the ladies’s 200 breast with a time of two:31.68. The Virginia commit (’25) has been as quick as 2:31.53 final month. Umstead outdueled rising Northern Colorado junior Maria Erokhina (2:33.36), who was a couple of seconds off her personal-best 2:30.62 from final Could.
Rising Ohio State senior Karl Helmuth emerged victorious within the males’s 200 breast with a time of two:16.34. He’s coming off a Thirty sixth-place end at Olympic Trials final month with a lifetime finest of two:14.92. Rising Cincinnati sophomore Kyle Bumgardner was subsequent to the wall in 2:17.04, matching his finest time from final month.
Distance specialists had their time to shine within the ladies’s 800 free and males’s 1500 free. Rising Ohio State senior Gwen Woodbury received the ladies’s 800 free in 8:49.35, about seven seconds off her personal-best 8:41.63 from Could. She positioned twenty ninth at Trials final month in 8:47.55.
Within the males’s 1500 free, rising Ohio State junior Mason Edmund (15:33.62) dominated by greater than 20 seconds forward of classmate Sam Campbell (15:53.84). Edmund, who positioned thirty first at Trials final month (15:39.52), owns a lifetime better of 15:18.80 from final June. Campbell crushed his previous-best 16:00.68 from final June by virtually seven seconds.
