2025 NC TAC Titans ESSZ Spring Senior Section
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March 6-10, 2025
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Triangle Aquatic Center, Raleigh, NC
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Meet Center
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Results: “2025 NC TAC Titans ESSZ Spring Senior Section” on Meet Mobile
The TAC Titans, the host team of the 2025 Cary Sectionals, dominated the last two days of competition, winning every event on the women’s side and winning both team competitions. One LSC record went down and several senior swimmers posted wins on the men’s side.
Men’s Meet Recap
Davis Jackson of the TAC Titans capped off his sectional meet with another two wins and a new state record. Jackson swept the 100 and 200 backstrokes, swimming 47.15 and 1:41.91. His 200 back time marks a new LSC record in the 15-16 age group, beating out Caleb Maldari’s 1:42.97 from 2021. It also blew away his previous best of 1:43.34. It also only sits .6 seconds away from the 15-18 state record, 1:41.31 by Baylor Nelson from 2022.
Apart from Jackson, many of the men’s events at this Sectionals went to 18 & over swimmers. Among them was Wolfpack Elite’s Breno Correia. After dominating the 200 free on Friday, the 25-year-old made it a mid-d sweep with wins in the 500 (4:23.22) and the 100 (43.67) freestyles.
Jorge Murillo, a 33-year-old representing TAC, completed the breaststroke sweep with a 1:56.07 in the 200. This was a three-second win for the Colombian National Teamer.
The 200 IM and 50 freestyle also went to adult TAC swimmers. Brian Thompson, 22, broke 1:50 in the 200 IM for the first time with a 1:49.52 win. Previously, his best time sat at 1:50.88 from December. The 50 went to Kevin Plewniak, who had a .3 gap on the rest of the field with his 20.31 victory. The 24-year-old competes with TAC and formerly swam for Gardner-Webb University.
Ewan Dalrymple of Columbia Swimming won the 200 fly, touching in 1:46.25 to narrowly miss his 1:46.05 best from a couple weeks ago.
Women’s Meet Recap
Sloane Whelehan, a 15-year-old TAC swimmer, established herself as the winningest swimmer of the meet with back-to-back wins on the final day. Whelehan took the first event of the night, the 100 free, in best time fashion. She stopped the clock in 49.49, beating her 49.63 time from the 2025 TAC Polar Plunge. Whelehan then followed that win up with another one in the 200 back in 1:56.24. This was just off the 1:55.86 best time she registered at last Winter Juniors.
The previous day, Whelehan also took the 100 back in 54.19, shaving a half second off her lifetime best in the process. These three wins were in addition to her 200 free title the first night.
Joining Whelehan as a multi-event winner was her teammate Carolin He. He won one event in both the Saturday and Sunday sessions. On Saturday, the 15-year-old completed the breaststroke by taking the 200 in a blistering 2:12.59. This shaved 2.5 seconds off her two-month-old 2:15.02 personal best. On the final night of competition, He made it a triple crown by taking the 200 IM in 1:58.99.
Whelehan and He led what was a TAC sweep for the last two days on the women’s side. Nikki Nixon, the 2024 200 fly runner up at Winter Juniors, won the same event this weekend. Her time, 1:56.01, was less than .2 off her 1:55.84 lifetime best.
TAC sprinter Caden Martin got it done in the 50 freestyle (22.57). The University of Virginia commit was a little off her 2023 best time of 22.21, but good enough to clear the rest of the field by about a quarter second.
In the 500 free, TAC Titan and future Tennessee Lady Vol Nicole Zettel came out on top. Zettel posted a 4:49.72, a few seconds away from her 4:45.52 best from Winter Juniors.
Team Results
Men:
- TAC 1283.5
- Kentucky Aquatics 321
- South Carolina Swim Club 225.5
- Columbia Swimming 205
- Ensworth Aquatics 190.5
Women:
- TAC 1384
- Ensworth Aquatics 295
- Raleigh Swimming Association
- Waves of Wilmington 180
- City of Charleston Southern 128