Karina Plaza Breaks 200 Breaststroke NAG Report, 1 Evening After Taking Down 100 Yard Mark

2025 North Carolina Swimming Quick Course Age Group Champs

A day after changing into the youngest feminine swimmer in historical past to go beneath 1 minute within the 100 yard breaststroke, 14-year-old Karina Plaza additionally broke the 13-14 Nationwide Age Group Report within the 200 breaststroke.

The SwimMAC’er touched in 2:09.40, profitable the title by greater than seven seconds, and shaving .18 seconds off the document set final 12 months by Californian Mikayla Tan.

Very like within the 100, this was a back-half swim for Plaza vis-a-vis the document. She was out in 1:02.28, as in comparison with Tan’s opening break up of 1:01.87; however got here house in 1:07.12, as in comparison with Tan’s 1:07.71.

She equally did a lot of the work on her outdated private finest on the finish of the race: 1.3 of the 1.94 seconds she dropped off her finest time got here within the ultimate 50.

Plaza’s opening 100 would rank within the high 65 American 13-14s of all-time as a standalone swim. Her 2:11.34 from March was the earlier North Carolina LSC Report within the occasion and her earlier private finest.

This was Plaza’s third particular person win of the week within the 13-14 age group. She additionally gained the 400 IM in 4:12.12, dropping 5.44 seconds off her earlier finest time.

Additionally on Saturday, she completed 2nd within the 100 again in 53.88 and break up 59.96 on the breaststroke leg of SwimMAC Carolina’s profitable 400 medley relay (3:40.27).

Different Day 3 Highlights:

• John Williams has been sizzling all weekend lengthy and continued that on Saturday with a win within the 200 breaststroke in 2:06.34, knocking .37 seconds off his finest time. That added to prior wins within the 400 IM (4:00.16), 100 breast (57.72), 200 free (1:41.22), and 100 IM (52.25).
• TAC Titans 14-year-old Reina Liu beat out Plaza within the 100 backstroke by a margin of 51.98 to 53.88. That just-missed Liu’s finest time of 51.86 from Winter Juniors – East. Liu additionally gained the 50 free in 22.17, knocking .29 seconds off her lifetime finest, and strikes her as much as 4th-place within the all-time age group rankings. One other TAC Titan, Claire Curzan, holds the document in 21.89, adopted by Gretchen Walsh, Charlotte Crush, Liu, and Kate Douglass, who was bumped to fifth on that record.
• After breaking the North Carolina Swimming LSC Report within the 1000 free to open the meet, Sam Wooten had a giant drop within the 500 free. He gained the race in 4:31.58, taking nearly three seconds off his Sixth-place swim from the North Carolina 4A State Championship Meet 10 days in the past.
• SwimMAC’s Emma Richardson gained the 13-14 ladies’ 200 fly in 2:01.23, which is a 4.6-second drop off her earlier finest time carried out at Age Group Sectionals in March 2024.