2025 North Carolina Swimming Quick Course Age Group Champs
- Feb 13-16, 2025
- Triangle Aquatic Middle in Cary, North Carolina
- Quick Course Yards (Prelims/Finals)
- Psych Sheet
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap
- Outcomes on Meet Cellular: “2025 NCS SC AG Champs”
SwimMAC Carolina’s Karina Plaza, a freshman at Myers Park Excessive College in Charlotte, North Carolina, has damaged the 13-14 Nationwide Age Group Report within the 100 yard breaststroke. The report has stood since 2015, and was beforehand held by Alexis Wenger at 1:00.02. Wenger went on to swim at UVA and is presently the #7 performer in brief course yard historical past. With this swim, Plaza turns into the youngest ever feminine swimmer to interrupt the 1:00 barrier within the 100 breast.
Plaza additionally reset the North Carolina LSC report, which was beforehand 1:01.31. It was held by Abby Arens, who ended up swimming for NC State in faculty and is presently at Texas for her fifth yr.
Plaza is just not new to NAGs nonetheless, as she is a member of SwimMAC’s relay that broke the 13-14 Nationwide Age Group report within the 400 medley relay simply final month. In that relay, she swam backstroke, main the group off in 1:03.56 (LCM).
Plaza’s earlier finest time within the 100 breast was 1:00.67, a PB set almost a yr in the past in March of 2024 on the North Carolina TAC Sectionals meet when she was nonetheless 13.
Splits Comparability:
| Wenger | Plaza | Plaza | |
| Previous 13-14 NAG Report | |||
| 50y | 28.00 | 28.49 | 28.71 |
| 100y | 32.02 | 31.45 | 31.96 |
| Complete Time | 1:00.02 | 59.94 | 1:00.67 |
Though Wenger’s first 50 was fast, Plaza’s energy lies in her back-half. In each her earlier private finest and this new NAG report, Plaza completed stronger than Wenger’s 32.02. On this record-breaking swim, she not solely began sooner than her earlier finest however outpaced each her previous efficiency and Wenger’s closing cut up.
Plaza additionally received the 400 IM in 4:12.12. With that 5 second drop from her earlier finest, she is now ranked #10 all time within the 13-14 age group.
Different Day 2 Highlights
- Reina Liu, the 100 IM champion final evening, received the 200 free with a decisive 1:47.13—almost 2 seconds forward of Arizona Smith (1:49.06). This was a .2 second drop from her PB (1:47.33) and strikes her as much as twenty ninth all time within the 13-14 age group.
- SwimMAC’s John Williams received the 200 free in 1:41.22 after battling it out with Samuel Wooten (1:41.70). Over the previous 2 days, Williams has taken over 3 seconds off his PB. Wooten broke the North Carolina LSC 13-14 report within the 1000 free final evening.
- Liu got here in 2nd within the 400 IM behind Plaza, swimming a 4:12.14. This swim slots her #11 all time in 13-14 historical past, simply behind Plaza.
- SwimMAC (3:22.27) edged out TAC Titans (3:22.77) for the win within the 400 free relay. Though Liu anchored TAC dwelling in a blistering 48.83, the quartet of Plaza (50.75), Emma Richardson (50.49), Erin Greathouse (50.84), and Arizona Smith (50.19) held on for the win.
