Katie Ledecky Logs 15:36.87 1500 Free To Shut Southern Zone South Sectionals

Katie Ledecky closed out the 2025 Southern Zone South Sectional Championships with a robust exhibiting within the ladies’s 1500 freestyle on Sunday, producing one of many quickest swims in historical past.

After posting the quickest time on this planet this yr on Saturday within the ladies’s 400 free (4:01.04), Ledecky posted a time of 15:36.87 within the 1500 on Sunday, overtaking the 15:42.73 marker she set in January for the #1 rating worldwide within the 2024-25 season.

The 27-year-old’s swim can also be sooner than anybody else has ever been in historical past, standing up because the Sixteenth-quickest ever to present Ledecky possession of the 21 quickest performances of all-time.

All-Time Performances, Girls’s 1500 Freestyle (LCM)

1. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:20.48 – 2018 Professional Swim Collection – Indianapolis
2. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:25.48 – 2015 World Championships
3. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:26.27 – 2023 World Championships
4. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:27.71 – 2015 World Championships (prelims)
5. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:28.36 – 2014 Pan Pacific Championships
6. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:29.51 – 2020 Professional Swim Collection – Des Moines
7. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:29.64 – 2023 U.S. Nationwide Championships
8. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:30.02 – 2024 Olympic Video games
9. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:30.15 – 2022 World Championships
10. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:31.82 – 2017 World Championships
11. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:34.23 – 2014 TWST Senior Invitational
12. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:35.35 – 2021 Olympic Video games
13. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:35.65 – 2017 Professional Swim Collection – Santa Clara
14. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:35.98 – 2019 U.S. Open
15. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:36.53 – 2013 World Championships
16. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:36.87 – 2025 Southern Zone South Sectionals
17. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:37.34 – 2021 Olympic Video games
18. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:37.35 – 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials
19. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:37.99 – 2023 Professional Swim Collection – Knoxville
20. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:38.25 – 2024 Atlanta Traditional
21. Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:38.81 – 2024 Professional Swim Collection – Knoxville

Ledecky received the occasion by greater than a minute and 40 seconds, with South Florida Aquatic Membership’s Izzy Wilson the runner-up in a lifetime better of 17:18.35.

Ledecky’s Gator Swim Membership teammate Isabel Ivey completed off her meet with a win within the ladies’s 100 free, clocking 55.44 for a season-best time and her fifth victory of the meet.

Putting 2nd and third within the occasion had been 15-year-old Laila Harran (57.74) and 13-year-old Penelope Lopez-Casula (57.78), who each set new private finest occasions. Lopez-Casula’s swim additionally makes her the quickest 13-year-old this season by practically two seconds.

OTHER WOMEN’S HIGHLIGHTS

• Laker Swim Membership’s Lilliana Krstolic topped the 200 fly in a time of two:16.95, simply shy of her PB from July 2023 (2:16.43). Fourteen-year-old Jianna Amores hit a season-best to position 2nd in 2:19.46.
• Sarasota Sharks’ Danica Aten, 16, received the 200 breast in 2:34.26, with 14-year-old teammate Sydney Hardy scoring a PB of two:38.71 for 2nd. Aten set a finest of two:29.75 on the 2023 U.S. Open Championships.
• T2 Aquatics’ Toula Hickmon, 15, received the 200 again in a lifetime finest of two:21.00. It was her second PB of the day within the occasion after going 2:22.66 within the prelims. Fourteen-year-olds Sophia Malkowicz (2:22.98 – 2:22.91 prelims) and Jianna Amores (2:23.64) set finest occasions in third and 4th.

MEN’S HIGHLIGHTS

• Laker’s Jayden Tsai stole the present within the male competitors on Sunday, because the 13-year-old topped the ‘B’ last of the 200 fly in a time of two:08.12, his second finest time of the day after clocking 2:10.16 within the prelims. Tsai, who got here into the meet with a finest of two:13.87, narrowly misses cracking the highest 100 all-time within the boys’ 13-14 age group (2:07.90 is a hundredth), however does rank 1st this season amongst 13-year-olds by greater than 5 seconds.
• Within the 200 fly ‘A’ last, it was Southwest Stars’ Roberto Zarate incomes the win in a finest time of two:01.82.
• Adrian Gustavo Ywanaga led a 1-2-3 sweep for Azura Florida Aquatics within the males’s 1500 free, because the 20-year-old hit a PB of 15:49.85.
• Jupiter Dragons’ Charles Howard was solely thirteenth within the prelims of the 100 free (53.42), however was scratched into the ‘A’ last and took full benefit, incomes the win in 51.93 for an enormous finest time (his prelim swim was additionally a PB). The swim makes him the quickest 15-year-old within the U.S. this season by greater than a second and a half.
• Hurricane Aquatics’ Giulian Martin paced the boys’s 200 breast in 2:17.95, with the 18-year-old having been as quick as 2:13-high in the summertime of 2023.
• Sarasota’s David Melnychuk, 17, set a finest of two:01.57 en path to successful the 200 again, rating him #1 within the nation amongst 17-year-olds this season by greater than two seconds.