2025 NCISAA Swimming & Diving Championships – Division III
- February 10, 2025
- Greensboro Aquatic Heart, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards), Prelims/Finals
- Full Meet Outcomes
A Nationwide File by senior Elle Scott led the Charlotte Nation Day women to their second consecutive North Carolina non-public faculties 3A state title, whereas the Ravenscroft boys received a nail-biter that got here all the way down to the ultimate relay.
Ladies’ Recap
Prime 5 Groups:
- Charlotte Nation Day Buccaneers – 385
- Windfall Day Chargers – 314
- Cary Academy Chargers – 313
- Charlotte Latin Hawks – 216
- Durham Academy Cavaliers – 178
US Junior Nationwide Crew member Elle Scott was the star of the meet, setting a brand new Nationwide File for unbiased highschool swimmers within the 100 breaststroke remaining.
She swam 58.56 in prelims to interrupt the document earlier than marking 58.93 in finals on the finish of a protracted day of racing, with each prelims and finals approaching the identical day.
Her heats swim broke the document that was set in 2018 by Alex Walsh of Harpeth Corridor College in Nashville, carried out when she was only a sophomore. Walsh swam 58.88 on the Tennessee State Championship meet that yr earlier than happening to a adorned profession on the College of Virginia, the place she is presently a fifth yr. Walsh is a two-time Olympian for the USA.
The general and public faculties document nonetheless belongs to present USC Trojan Kaitlyn Dobler, who swam 58.35 in 2020.
| Elle Scott | Alex Walsh | Kaitlyn Dobler | |
| 2025 NCISAA | 2018 Tennessee HS State Championships |
2020 Oregon 6A State Championships |
|
| 50y | 27.66 | 27.92 | 27.50 |
| 100y | 30.90 | 30.96 | 30.85 |
| Whole Time | 58.56 | 58.88 | 58.35 |
Scott falls someplace between Walsh and Dobler when it comes to opening tempo on this race. That kind of falls in step with her common versatility.
She additionally picked up wins on the meet because the breaststroke leg of Charlotte Nation Day’s 200 medley relay, the place she break up 27.42 on the breaststroke leg. The remainder of that workforce included Taylor Klein (26.08 – backstroke), Caroline Mallard (23.89 – fly), and Cate Wickerham (24.29 – free). Everybody apart from Scott returns to that relay subsequent season, and so they received the occasion by nearly six-and-a-half seconds.
Scott additionally received the 200 IM in 1:56.60, and anchored the successful 400 free relay on the finish of the meet with a 48.87 closing break up. That relay included Esme van Orden (50.95), Kaylee Daniell (51.23), and Wickerham (53.27).
Scott is dedicated to swim at Cal subsequent season and is already nearly a second away from the Golden Bears’ finest breaststroker this season – Margaux McDonald, who swam 59.53 at ACCs final week.
The Purdue commit Mallard, who swam the fly leg on that successful 200 medley relay (and outsplit each butterflier and freestyler within the area) additionally picked up a dominating win within the 100 fly in 53.34, shaving .02 seconds off her earlier finest. Her teammate Taylor Klein completed 2nd in 54.00.
Mallard was runner-up within the 50 free in 23.30 behind junior Caden Martin of the Cary Academy Chargers.
Martin additionally received the 100 free to brush the dash free occasions, touching in 49.35 forward of van Orden (51.17).
These are each second-straight state titles for Martin, although final yr she swept the occasions at Arkansas’ 1A-4A state meet. Martin is dedicated to Virginia for fall 2026.
Together with a pair of runner-up finishes from Caroline He (100 breast in 1:02.39, 200 IM in 1:59.61) helped Cary Academy to a third-place end after ending 2nd final yr.
Mallard additionally led CCD to a win within the different relay, the 200 free relay, with out Scott. She break up 23.38 on the leadoff leg, and joined with Klein (23.32), Kaylee Daniell (23.88), and Van Orden (23.27) for the win.
In the meantime, Windfall Day College jumped from 4th final season to runner-up this season on the power of a powerful center distance crew. Within the 200 free, Zetta Bartee received in a finest time of 1:48.82, efficiently defending her title from final yr, whereas Clarke Neace completed third in 1:49.48. Neace then received the five hundred free in a brand new finest time of 4:47.98 – in an occasion that she didn’t even swim finally yr’s state meet. That’s a 1.51 second drop for her.
Mens’ Recap
Prime 5 Groups:
- Ravenscroft Ravens – 339
- Charlotte Latin Hawks – 336
- Cary Academy Chargers – 257
- Durham Academy Cavaliers – 223
- Charlotte Nation Day Buccaneers – 222
On the boys’ facet, the Ravenscroft Ravens pulled off a slender three-point upset over the defending champions from Charlotte Latin. Final yr, Charlotte Latin received by 196 factors. This yr, the meet got here all the way down to the ultimate lap of the ultimate relay.
With Ravenscroft and Charlotte Latin the heavy favorites on paper, whichever workforce received the boys’ 400 free relay would take the meet.
The 2 groups used very completely different lineup methods. Ravenscroft led off with their finest, Mattaus Rammel, and jumped out to an enormous lead. Charlotte Latin did simply sufficient to provide their finest swimmer, Junior Nationwide Crew member Norvin Clontz, a shot on the finish.
However finally, Ravenscroft senior Drew Davis, racing from the entrance, had simply sufficient to carry off Clontz’s 44.58 break up on the contact.
Aspect-by-Aspect Splits
| Ravenscroft | Charlotte Latin | |||
| 100y | Mattaus Rammel (JR) | 44.78 | Thomas Greathouse (SO) | 46.09 |
| 200y | David Davis (FR) | 47.57 | David Sammons (FR) | 45.34 |
| 300y | Kaleb James (SR) | 46.20 | Bryce Spangler (SR) | 48.05 |
| 400y | Drew Davis (SR) | 45.27 | Norvy Clontz (SR) | 44.58 |
| Ultimate Time | 3:03.82 | 3:04.06 |
Charlotte Latin began the meet off with a win within the 200 medley in 1:32.07, with a workforce of David Sammons (23.50 – backstroke), Clontz (25.08 – breaststroke), Bryce Spangler (22.66 – fly), and Thomas Greathouse (20.83 – free) successful by a second-and-a-half over Ravenscroft. Sammons is barely a freshman, however nonetheless managed the second-best backstroke break up of the sphere behind Granger Bartee from Windfall Day (22.40).
Sammons swam solely a pair of relays on the meet and no particular person occasions.
Ravenscroft’s runner-up effort within the medley relay was led by a 21.13 fly break up from Rammel.
Ravenscroft then received the 200 free relay in 1:25.51, with one other narrow-win – although this time they had been holding off the Cannon Cougars.
Kaleb James (21.26), Frank Hassell (22.28), Jackson Bubar (21.20), and Drew Davis (20.87) took the win with an all senior relay. Cannon was .03 seconds behind, with senior John Kroll splitting 20.46, however Davis once more holding on for the win.
Plenty of these huge relay swimmers confirmed up once more on the prime of particular person podiums. Bartee, after his electrical medley relay leadoff, received the 100 free in 45.04 and the 100 again in 48.48. He ends his highschool profession with six state titles: two received as a freshman (100 fly and 200 free), then the 100 again as a sophomore, 100 free as a junior, and now each the 100 again and 100 free as a senior.
Kaleb James from Ravenscroft received the 100 breaststroke in 56.78, holding off Bryce Spangler from Charlotte Latin (57.03) in one other shut race that would have swung the meet.
John Kroll, who practically overcame Ravenscroft within the 200 free relay, did overcome them within the particular person 50 free. He received in 20.61, beating out Rammel in 20.89.
Rammel got here again after the diving break to win the 100 fly in 47.68.
Clontz, in the meantime, picked up a win within the 200 free in 1:36.67, an All-America time, over Charlotte Nation Day sophomore Santi Alzate-Celin (1:39.00).
Within the 500 free later within the session, Alzate-Celin received his clapback, successful in 4:23.83 to Clontz’s 4:25.93.
These two races had been the identical end order between the identical two swimmers as final yr’s state meet, although final yr’s outcomes had been a bit sooner in these occasions on the whole.
Durham Academy’s Ian Platts-Mills received the 200 IM in 1:47.34, setting a brand new NCISAA File. That was his first particular person state title in his final meet earlier than matriculating to Cal within the fall. He additionally completed 2nd within the 100 again behind Bartee.
