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Williamson Splits 40.96 100 Free, Lakeside Aquatic Club Breaks 17-18 NAG In 400 Free Relay

2024 Winter Junior Championships – West

Boys’ 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Timed Finals

  • West Record: 2:54.75, Lakeside Aquatic Club (M Williamson, R Paulk, M Hatcher, C Lucas) (2022)
  • Meet Record: 2:54.75, Lakeside Aquatic Club (M Williamson, R Paulk, M Hatcher, C Lucas) (2022)
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 3:07.45, Cavalier Aquatics (Heilman, Browne, Kidd, Wang) (2021)
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 2:59.57, Rose Bowl Aquatics (Kim, Dalmacio, Larrick, Maurer) (2021)
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 2:54.96, Rose Bowl Aquatics (Kim, Maurer, Larrick, Gim) (2022)

Top 3 Teams:

  1. Lakeside Aquatic Club- 2:54.12 **NEW NAG and MEET RECORD**
  2. Scottsdale Aquatic Club- 2:58.84
  3. Irvine Novaquatics- 2:58.90

In the final event of the 2024 Winter Junior Championship, the Lakeside Aquatic Club broke the boys’ 17-18 U.S. National Age Group record in the boys’ 400 freestyle relay. The quartet of Maxwell Stanislaus, Luke Garrett, Aubrey Jaya and Maximus Williamson combined for a time of 2:54.12, beating Rose Bowl Aquatics’ time of 2:54.96 from 2022. They also beat out their own club’s West meet record time of 2:54.75 from 2022, which is not a NAG because Williamson still was 16 years old at the time.

Williamson anchored in a time of 40.96, which is nearly a second faster than his best flat start time of 41.92.

Split Comparison:

Lakeside Aquatic Club, 2024 Rose Bowl Aquatics, 2022
100y Maxwell Stanislaus — 43.66 Nathan Kim – 44.40
200y Luke Garrett — 44.47 Rex Maurer — 42.74
300y Aubrey Jaya — 45.03 Zach Larrick — 44.10
400y Maximus Williamson — 40.96 Jonathan Gim — 43.72
Total 2:54.12 2:54.96

Ironically, when Rose Bowl Aquatics broke the NAG at 2022 Winter Juniors, they finished second to Lakeside Aquatic Club’s relay that broke the previous West meet record.

Lakeside Aquatic Club nearly swept all the relays at Winter Juniors, winning every single one aside from the 200 medley relay.

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Carpet cleaner
3 months ago

No mention of the team that swam faster without a carry? SMH

Coach_Jake_Swim
3 months ago

Not a meet record. Bolles went 2:53.78 about an hour prior.

cynthia curran
Reply to  Coach_Jake_Swim
3 months ago

I think they mean the west record not the overall record and Bolles has that and the east record.

dawg pound
3 months ago

didnt bolles go faster?

FKA an anti-fan club
3 months ago

Didn’t Ryan Hoffer go something crazy as an 18 under?

FKA an anti-fan club
Reply to  FKA an anti-fan club
3 months ago

Like 41.3?

Dave
Reply to  FKA an anti-fan club
3 months ago

Ya but he was only 16 when he did that so technically call he doesn’t have the 17-18 NAG

HeGetsItDoneAgain
Reply to  Dave
3 months ago

He was 17 and it’s the 17-18 nag. Literally everything you said was wrong

FKA an anti-fan club
Reply to  FKA an anti-fan club
3 months ago

Okay, I figured it out. At one point, Maximus Williamson held the 15-16 NAG in 42.49 – this time has since been broken by the current NAG holder Kaii Winkler in 41.96, and Thomas Heilman has since gone 42.00 as a 16 yo.

For the 17-18 NAG, Ryan Hoffer has held it at 41.23 since 2015 – so none of the juniors we’ve been hearing about any time lately have held that NAG.

Last year, this article https://staging2.swimswam.com/maximus-williamson-clocks-41-92-100-free-ranks-6-all-time-in-u-s-17-18-age-group/ is titled in him swimming a 41.92 as a 17 yo, but in reality he went 41.99.

I think the confusion here was that at one point, Williamson was the NAG holder of his age group, and there is… Read more »

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