Emily Allen of North Mecklenburg Aquatics and Kathleen Baker of SwimMAC each won individual events at the Winter Junior Nationals in Knoxville.
With wins in the 200 IM, 100 Back, and 200 Back and top eight finishes in the 100 Fly and 100 Free, Baker led all women in points scored.
Emily Allen won the 100 Free with a time of 48.73, just .02 off the meet record. Allen also placed second in the 200 free.
Hannah Moore of RSA was second in the 200 Back and third in the 400 IM. Lauren Rhodes, Caitlin Casazza, Kyle Darmody, Matthew Josa, John Manchester of SwimMAC, and Daniel Le were also among the top finishers in individual events. SwimMAC’s record-breaking relay performances were detailed in a previous post.
Below is a link to the complete meet results from the Winter Junior Nationals:
Listed below are the swimmers who represented North Carolina Swimming in the Winter Nationals and Winter Junior Nationals.
North Carolina Swimmers in Nationals
| Braun, Erika L | MOR |
| Gordy, Lillian R | UN |
| Kiraly, Attila | ECUA |
| Smith, Meghan L | DUKE |
North Carolina Swimmers in Junior Nationals
| Perdue, Philip Sutherland | GSC |
| Pfeiffer, Emily Winfield | GSC |
| Shaw, Dalton Reed | GSC |
| Baker, Kathleen Somers | MAC |
| Bretschneider, Lane M | MAC |
| Burt, Bailey A | MAC |
| Casazza, Caitlin Nicole | MAC |
| Chadwick, Michael H | MAC |
| Darmody, Kyle J | MAC |
| Dupay, Allyson P | MAC |
| Emery, Nicole C | MAC |
| Josa, Matthew A | MAC |
| Manchester, John R | MAC |
| Marsh, Alyssa J | MAC |
| Martelle, Alexandra Brianne | MAC |
| McCullagh, Hayes P | MAC |
| McCullagh, Nora E | MAC |
| Merritt, Heather N | MAC |
| Merritt, Jessica M | MAC |
| Murch Elliot, Billy R | MAC |
| Murch Elliot, Currie F | MAC |
| Rhodes, Lauren E | MAC |
| Sheridan, Maria E | MAC |
| Stranick, Sara A | MAC |
| Welshofer, Elsa C | MAC |
| Johnson, Scott A | MOR |
| Linker, Adam K | MOR |
| Mitchell, Caroline T | MOR |
| Pena, Kendall A | MOR |
| Allen, Emily K | NMA |
| Lappin, Christina M | NMA |
| Barham, Jordyn P | RSA |
| Moore, Hannah M | RSA |
| Le, Daniel T | UN |
| Miller, Benjamin G | UN |
| Rubendall, Brooke E | WAVE |
| Yeh, Sean J | WAVE |
| Caveness, Christian Fields | WOW |
| Johns, Travis J | WOW |
| Soule, Mary O | YWNC |
