Age Group Swimmer of the 12 months- 15-16

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Deciding the swimmer of the 12 months was not notably clear minimize for the 15-16 swimmers due to high swimmers leaping age classes. There have, nonetheless, been a couple of NAG information this season, even when among the athletes have been 15 for lower than a season. This 12 months’s 15-16 Age Group Swimmer of the 12 months Awards go to Rylee Erisman and Luka Mijatovic. Each swimmers may have additionally been the 13-14 Swimmer of the 12 months.

15-16 Women

Rylee Erisman, Laker Swim

Erisman spent a part of this 12 months as a 14-year-old, and broke a NAG document within the lengthy course 50 freestyle in March. She turned 15 shortly after, and has already set a brand new 15-16 NAG document within the 100 free quick course, twice.

In November, Erisman went 47.14 within the 100 free at her highschool state meet to interrupt Claire Curzan’s document of 47.23 from 2020. On the identical meet she set the Nationwide Public Excessive Faculty document within the 50 free, going 21.61 to interrupt Abbey Weitzeil’s earlier document.

Nearly a month later at Winter Juniors, Erisman rebroke her NAG document, going 46.69 within the 100 free to change into the primary 15-16 year-old below 47 seconds.

Erisman additionally swam on the 2024 Olympic Trials as a 15-year-old. She certified for the ultimate within the 50 free, ending fifth total. She swam within the semifinals of the 100 again and the 100 free, the place she positioned 14th and tenth respectively. She additionally swam the 200 free, ending thirty third, and the 200 again, inserting twenty eighth.

She additionally competed on the Junior Pan Pacs for Crew USA, and he or she is presently a member of the Girls’s Nationwide Crew.

On high of main the nation within the 50 free quick course, she additionally has 4 top-five 15-16 all-time swims.

Erisman’s 15-16 High-5 All-Time Swims:

• 50 free (SCY)- 21.61 (#2 all-time)
• 100 free (SCY)- 46.69 (#1 all-time)
• 50 free (LCM)- 24.62 (#2 all-time)
• 100 free (LCM)- 53.75 (#4 all-time)

Honorable Mentions:

• Charlotte Crush, Lakeside Swim Crew: Crush has additionally damaged a NAG document this season, decreasing her personal 100 backstroke document with the 49.46 she went at Winter Juniors earlier this month. She additionally holds top-five all-time swims in two different quick course occasions, the 200 again (#2 all-time), and the 100 fly (#3 all-time).
• Kayla Han, La Mirada Armada: Han doesn’t maintain any 15-16 NAG information, however she presently sits in 1st within the nation in 4 occasions, the five hundred free (4:36.88), 1000 free (9:30.10), 1650 free (15:56.07), and the 400 IM (4:04.44). She additionally held the highest time within the 800 free and 1500 freestyle throughout lengthy course. Her 1000 free (seventh) and her 400 IM (sixth) additionally are available in as top-10 all time swims for 15-16 year-olds.

15-16 Boys

Luke Mijatovic, Pleasanton Seahawks

Mijatovic is one other one who frolicked as a 13-14 this season, and even broke fairly a couple of 13-14 NAG information within the distance freestyle occasions. He turned 15 earlier than Olympic Trials, and has already began rewriting the 15-16 document books in the identical means.

This can be a 2024 award, so we’re solely taking a look at information damaged in the course of the 2024 calendar 12 months. If the document was damaged in 2023, it’s not a part of this 12 months’s award.

After setting new 13-14 information within the quick course 500 free and 400 IM and the lengthy course 200 free, 400 free, 1500 free, and 400 IM within the early phases of the 12 months, Mijatovic set his sights on the 15-16 information.

In August on the Junior Pan Pacs, Mijatovic broke his 1st 15-16 document, going 3:49.24 within the 400 free to beat Larsen Jensen’s 24-year-old NAg document of three:50.68 by greater than a second.

He went on to interrupt his 2nd document within the 500 freestyle in November. He swam the occasion in 4:12.34 to utterly demolish the earlier document of 4:15.36 set by Drew Kibler in 2016.

Mijatovic presently seems within the all-time top-10 rankings in six occasions throughout lengthy course and quick course, together with the 2 he has information in.

Mijatovic’s 15-16 High-Ten All-Time Swims

• 500 free SCY: 4:12.34 (#1 All-Time)
• 1000 free SCY: 8:45.28 (#2 All-Time)
• 200 free LCM: 1:47.96 (#3 All-Time)
• 400 free LCM: 3:49.24 (#1 All-Time)
• 800 free LCM: 7:56.91 (#5 All-Time)
• 1500 free LCM: 15:15.95 (#6 All-Time)

Honorable Mentions:

• Tim Wu, Pleasanton Seahawks: Wu seems within the top-10 in seven totally different occasions thus far this quick course season, the 100 free (sixth), 200 free (ninth), 500 free (4th), 1000 free (2nd), 100 again (third), 200 again (2nd), and the 200 IM (2nd). Mijatovic has six top-10 swims, and no different swimmer has greater than 5 this season. His 200 IM time of 1:45.25 from the US Open additionally ranks him fifteenth within the all-time 15-16 rankings.
• Andrew Eubanks, Portland Dolphins: Eubanks had a fully monster Winter Junior Nationals earlier this month, incomes nation-leading instances in each distances of breaststroke. His 100 breast time of 53.09 vaulted him right into a tie for ninth all-time within the occasion, and his 200 breast sits in 14th at 1:55.73. Eubanks has seen important drops this season, coming in at 55.56 within the 100 breast and a couple of:00.19 within the 200 breast.

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