The first and only accurate top times list of the season as the area’s two largest league’s both swim the individual medley events and both limit their swimmers to two events.
Five all-area marks were set on a weekend that saw league records tumble across the region.
In its last week of competition, MCSL continued to lead the leader board with 29 total top times. NVSL leapt forward with the addition of the IM events to its meets with 20 total, followed by the CSL (8) and PWSL (1).
Read quick analysis of this week’s top times list and see who is the best in the area in their event in Week 4:
8&unders
Rockville‘s Adriano Arioti completed as close to a perfect season as possible with seven swims in the 25-meter free and seven weekly top times. He also finished with the top six best times in the 25 butterfly and 25 backstroke.
But with the MCSL season now in the books, the most exciting races in the age group came out of the NVSL and CSl, with Sleepy Hollow Rec.’s Emma Redman and Countryside’s Micaela Perezous dipping within a second of the all-area marks in free and fly. Redman especially intrigues not just because of her proximity to the record, but because of what record it is. Amy Rymiszewski’s free record has stood since 1985 and is the oldest girls’ record in the league.
(In red, we have noted the time in seconds from the current all-area record and bolded times within a second of the all-area record.)
Boys’ 25m free | 15.39 | +0.33 | Adriano Arioti | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
Boys’ 25 back | 19.84 | +1.75 | Ben Hugenberg | MCSL | Woodcliffe | Meet result |
Boys’ 25 breast | 20.59 | +1.22 | Cyrus Beauvais | CSL | Fort Myer | Meet result |
Boys’ 25 fly | 17.26 | +1.19 | Adriano Arioti | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 free | 15.97 | +0.49 | Emma Redman | NVSL | Sleepy Hollow Rec. | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 back | 19.37 | +1.67 | Emma Redman | NVSL | Sleepy Hollow Rec. | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 breast | 21.35 | +1.37 | Maggie O’shaughnessy | NVSL | Highlands | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 fly | 17.46 | +0.92 | Micaela Perezous | CSL | Countryside | Meet result |
9-10s
Germantown’s Konnor Chen, Rockville’s Ethan Fu and Damascus’s Carly Sebring all challenged but ultimately fell short of the all-area marks in their respective events at the MCSL all-star meet. Chen finished with six of the top six times this season in the 25 back, Fu with three of the top seven times in breast and Sebring with all four of the season-best times in fly and the fastest of the year in free.
Entering the all-star weekend in Northern Virginia, Highlands’s Courtney Watts has a shot at Janet Hu’s 2006 record that stands as both the NVSL and all-area mark.
Boys’ 50m free | 30.59 | +1.21 | McGrath Marsh | CSL | Arlington KOC | Meet result |
Boys’ 25 back | 16.70 | +1.12 | Konnor Chen | MCSL | Germantown | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 back | 35.52 | +2.15 | J.T. Ewing | NVSL | Tuckahoe | Meet result |
Boys’ 25 breast | 18.16 | +0.98 | Ethan Fu | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 breast | 39.00 | +1.64 | McGrath Marsh | CSL | Arlington KOC | Meet result |
Boys’ 25 fly | 14.97 | +0.61 | Konnor Chen | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
Boys’ 100 IM | 1:22.34 | +9.50 | Andrew Bolz | PWSL | Ridgewood | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 free | 29.99 | +0.29 | Carly Sebring | MCSL | Damascus | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 back | 16.87 | +1.09 | Nina Allen | MCSL | Stonegate | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 back | 34.59 | +0.27 | Courtney Watts | NVSL | Highlands | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 breast | 18.46 | +1.04 | Joyce Wu | MCSL | King Farm | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 breast | 40.95 | +3.45 | Angela Cai | NVSL | Sully Station II | Meet result |
Girls’ 25 fly | 14.81 | +0.07 | Carly Sebring | MCSL | Damascus | Meet result |
Girls’ 100 IM | 1:17.25 | +3.42 | Victoria Valko | NVSL | McLean | Meet result |
11-12s
Despite the limitation of events in Montgomery County, Maryland’s premier league still swept the 11-12 boys’ weekly top times, including two all-area marks from Tallyho’s Brett Feyerick.
The league nearly grabbed up all the girls’ events too, but a Vienna Aquatic duo broke up the sweep — including Anna Keating‘s stunning 35-low in breaststroke, which comes dangerously close to the shared record that was set first in 1995 and matched in 2003.
Boys’ 50m free | 26.38 | -0.06 | Brett Feyerick | MCSL | Tallyho | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 back | 28.47 | -0.37 | Brett Feyerick | MCSL | Tallyho | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 breast | 35.64 | +2.08 | Ben Long Zuo | MCSL | Tallyho | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 fly | 29.18 | +0.65 | Chris Ma | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
Boys’ 100 IM | 1:08.20 | +3.29 | Chris Ma | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 free | 27.63 | +0.27 | Phoebe Bacon | MCSL | Tallyho | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 back | 31.44 | +1.53 | Darby Galbraith | NVSL | Vienna Aquatic Club | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 breast | 35.12 | +0.24 | Anna Keating | NVSL | Vienna Aquatic Club | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 fly | 30.38 | +1.89 | Tia Thomas | MCSL | Stonegate | Meet result |
Girls’ 100 IM | 1:09.59 | +2.81 | Erika Chen | MCSL | Rockville | Meet result |
13-14s
Hunter Mill’s Katie Mack and Mansion House’s Andrew Revers posted times in the sprint free events that should perk up the ears of their future and current high school coaches. Revers’s time ranks in the top five in the league all-time, while Mack sits at No. 3 on the all-time performers list.
But free wasn’t even Mack’s best performance of the weekend, as she tore down Cassidy Bayer’s NVSL and all-area mark in the 100 IM. The time ranks Mack second all-time across all age groups as well, behind Hu’s record but ahead of MCSL record holder Katie Ledecky (1:04.53) and former NVSL record holder Ashley Danner (1:03.74).
Boys’ 50m free | 24.91 | +0.88 | Andrew Revers | NVSL | Mansion House | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 back | 28.48 | +1.37 | Timothy Ellett | MCSL | Tilden Woods | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 breast | 31.94 | +1.15 | Aaron Stanton | MCSL | Stonegate | Meet result |
Boys’ 50 fly | 27.06 | +1.01 | Thomas Outlaw | NVSL | Chesterbrook | Meet result |
Boys’ 100 IM | 1:01.35 | +1.06 | Timothy Ellett | MCSL | Tilden Woods | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 free | 26.87 | +0.87 | Katie Mack | NVSL | Hunter Mill | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 back | 30.86 | +1.11 | Elise Mozeleski | NVSL | Sully Station | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 breast | 33.76 | +2.73 | Cassandra Sanidad | MCSL | Stonegate | Meet result |
Girls’ 50 fly | 29.80 | +1.91 | Lauren Young | NVSL | Poplar Tree | Meet result |
Girls’ 100 IM | 1:03.70 | -0.32 | Katie Mack | NVSL | Hunter Mill | Meet result |
15-18s
The senior boys were on point this week, leaving their mark before heading off to join the collegiate ranks.
The performance of the week came from Carsten Vissering of Old Georgetown, who crushed his own 100 breaststroke record with a stunning sub-1 minute performance. Vissering, a soon-to-be Southern Cal freshman, has taken a record that has only been broken by three swimmers since Olympic gold medalist Mike Barrowman’s 1987 record of 1:04.98. Before Vissering, the record stood at 1:01.03 from 2008 and 1:03.60 from 2002.
Franklin Farm’s John Shebat also broke an all-area mark, taking down the 50 backstroke in smashing a two-year mark held by Philip Hu. It was the third all-area mark set this season in the 15-18 age group, adding to Caroline McTaggart’s record in the girls’ 100 free. Ben Gorski nearly got Ed Moses’s 1998 record in breast, falling just shy of the mark.