2022 U.S. Junior Nationals: Team Scoring Analysis

2022 SPEEDO JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

• August 1 to 5, 2022
• William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center, Irvine, California
• Long Course Meters (50m)
• Meet Central
• Event Page
• Psych Sheets
• Live Stream (USA Swimming)
• Live Results (OMEGA) (also can be found on MeetMobile)

Top 10 Team Scores

COMBINED

1. Carmel Swim Club – 440
2. Dynamo Swim Club – 403
3. Elmbrook Swim Club – 371
4. Irvine Novaquatics – 319.5
5. Rose Bowl Aquatics – 254.5
6. Nitro Swimming – 236
7. SwimMAC Carolina – 225
8. Longhorn Aquatics – 202
9. SwimAtlanta – 192
10. Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Family Y – 187

BOYS

1. Dynamo Swim Club – 265
2. Nitro Swimming – 206
3. Rose Bowl Aquatics – 178.5
4. Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Family Y – 176
5. SwimMAC Carolina – 162
6. Carmel Swim Club – 153
7. Aquajets Swim Team – 108
8. SwimAtlanta – 107
9. Irvine Novaquatics – 99.5
10. Zionsville Swim Club – 92.5

GIRLS

1. Elmbrook Swim Club – 310
2. Carmel Swim Club – 287
3. Irvine Novaquatics – 220
4. University of Denver Hilltoppers – 162
5. Mission Viejo Nadadores – 161
6. Scarlet Aquatics – 142
7. Dynamo Swim Club – 138
8. TIDE Swimming – 120
9. Longhorn Aquatics – 114
10. North Baltimore Aquatic Club – 96

The 2022 Summer Junior Nationals is now in the books, so let’s take a moment to examine the final team scores. Carmel Swim Club won the combined team title, while Dynamo Swim Club won the boys’ title, and Elmbrook Swim Club took the girls’ title.

Carmel Swim Club came away with the combined title thanks to a mostly balanced scoring between their boys and girls. CSC came in 2^nd in girls scoring, while the boys team finished 6^th overall. Here is Carmel Swim Club’s roster from the meet:

• Berit Berglund
• Lynsey Bowen
• Meghan Christman
• Gregg Enoch
• Lucy Enoch
• Leo Han
• Devon Kitchel
• Mackenna Lieske
• Brandon Malicki
• Aaron Shackell
• Alex Shackell
• Alyssa Street
• Sean Sullivan
• Molly Sweeney
• Lexie Ward
• Vivian Wilson

Leading the way for Carmel was the sibling duo of Alex Shackell and Aaron Shackell. Alex was one of the highest scoring individuals of the meet, racking up 65 individual points, despite not racing an individual event on the last day of the meet. She swept the girls fly events, winning the 100 fly in 58.33 and the 200 fly in 2:09.44. Just 15 years old, Shackell also took 3^rd in the 100 free, and won the ‘B’ final of the 200 free, taking 9^th overall. She also was pivotal in Carmel’s relays, helping lead the 800 free relay to victory, the 200 medley and 200 free relays to 2^nd place finishes, a 3rd place finish in the 400 free relay, and a 5^th place finish in the 400 medley relay.

Impressively, Carmel Swim Club’s ‘B’ girls 400 free relay also scored team points, finishing 14^th.

Meanwhile, 17-year-old Aaron Shackell scored 49 points individually, swimming a nearly identical schedule to his sister. Aaron also won the 200 fly, taking the boys event in 1:57.42. He also took 4^th in the 400 free and 5^th in the 200 free. Shackell was also in the ‘C’ final of the 100 free, finishing 20^th overall. While Carmel Swim Club’s boys relays didn’t finish as highly as their girls relays, they still accumulated quite a few points. Their highest finishing boys relay was the 800 free relay, which took 4^th. Carmel’s 400 free relay was also on the podium, finishing 5^th. The medley relays were strong as well, with the 400 medley coming in 9^th and the 200 medley 10^th. Their 200 free relay was a little further back, finishing 15^th, but that was still good to contribute 4 points to the team score.

Dynamo Swim Club handily won the boys team title, outscoring runner-up Nitro Swimming by 59 points. Dynamo scored massive relay points but had some highly productive individual swimmers as well. 18-year-old Owen McDonald scored 57 points, taking 3^rd in the boys 400 IM, 4^th in the 200 free, 5^th in the 200 IM, 9^th in the 200 fly, 14^th in the 200 back, and 16^th in the 200 back. McDonald was also critical in helping Dynamo’s boys relays to Junior National titles in the 200 medley, 200 free, and 400 free relays. They also took 4^th in the 400 medley relay and 6^th in the 800 free relay.

Idris Muhammad, who is a rising sophomore at Purdue, but is competing for Dynamo this summer, picked up 26 individual points. Muhammad finished 5^th in the boys 100 back and 7^th in the 50 free. He also turned some heads in the 200 free relay, where he anchored Dynamo to victory with a sizzling 22.26.

Here is Dynamo Swim Club’s boys team roster for the meet:

• Will Coady
• Cooper Cook
• Cale Martter
• Owen McDonald
• William McDonald
• Idris Muhammad
• Leo Roden
• Britton Spann
• Jack Vanvalkenburg
• Thomas Xiao

The girls team race was probably the most exciting of the meet. Carmel Swim Club was leading the standings heading into the final day of the meet, but Elmbrook Swim Club overtook them during the final session, ultimately winning the girls title by 27 points.

Elmbrook Swim Club was strong in scoring individual points, however, they had a nearly perfect performance in the girls relays. The only relay Elmbrook didn’t win at these Junior Nationals was the 800 free relay, where they finished 2^nd to Carmel. In the 200 medley, 400 medley, 200 free, and 400 free relays, EBSC won the title, breaking several 15-18 National Age Group Records as well.

Individually, 16-year-old Lucy Thomas was huge for her team, winning the girls 100 breast and finishing 14^th in the 100 free. In a grueling triple on the final day of the meet, Thomas took 12^th in the 200 IM before posting a 3^rd place finish in the 50 free. She then went on to aid the 400 medley relay to a decisive victory with a 1:09.56 breaststroke split that evening as well.

16-year-old teammate Maggie Wanezek was big for the team too, winning the 100 back and taking 4^th in the 200 back. She was also a member of all 5 EBSC relays.

Here is Elmbrook Swim Club’s girls roster for the meet:

• Ava Goodno
• Audrey Alan
• Campbell Stoll
• Lucy Thomas
• Reese Tiltmann
• Abby Wanezek
• Maggie Wanezek