2015 Speedo Winter Junior Championships – East
- Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center – Atlanta, GA
- Wednesday, December 9 – Saturday, December 11
- (Bonus long course meter time trials on Sunday, December 12)
- Prelims 9AM / Finals 5PM (Th-Sat), Wed. Timed Finals 6PM (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Meet Page
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
14-year-old Alex Walsh of Nashville Aquatic Club downed Missy Franklin’s national age group record in the 200 IM for 13-14 girls at the Speedo Winter Juniors East on Thursday night. Franklin had set the mark of 1:57.70 in 2010.
Walsh came into the meet with a seed time of 2:00.07. During prelims she went a best time by 1.2 seconds and qualified third for finals. Walsh came back ready to race; she dropped time across the board, but her biggest gains came in the backstroke and freestyle legs, where she improved by 1.2 and .77 seconds, respectively.
| Alex Walsh, Finals | Missy Franklin, 2010 | Alex Walsh, Prelims | |
| Fly | 25.93 | 25.80 | 26.09 |
| Back | 28.81 | 28.51 | 30.04 |
| Breast | 34.15 | 35.58 | 34.59 |
| Free | 27.31 | 28.01 | 28.08 |
| 1:56.20 | 1:57.70 | 1:58.80 |
Walsh had an absolutely outstanding back half, crushing the field. With the second-fastest breast and the third-fastest free, she was untouchable coming home. Finishing second was Isabel Ivey of Gator Swim Club with 1:57.04; third was Walsh’s teammate Tatum Wade in 1:57.70.
Race of the day.
Alex Walsh star in the making. Yes Beegees, I said it 2 years ago! 😆
And when I picked her name 3 months ago for the 2016 US olympic team, a lot of swimswamers were pretty surprised.
Back to that race, I didn’t expect such a fast free leg. She has improved a lot that stroke in the last few months.
Butterfly is her weakest stroke. And she still has a lot of work to do in that stroke. But the 3 others are now crazy good.
Cool to see Isabel Ivey 2nd. What a meet for her so far. 1.44 anchor leg on day 1 in the 4X200 free relay! Big PB… Read more »
Bobo,
I am surprised you only noticed Alex Walsh two years ago.
I beat you by one year! 😀
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