2025 NC TAC Titans ESSZ Spring Senior Section
- March 6-10, 2025
- Triangle Aquatic Center, Raleigh, NC
- Meet Center
- Live Results: “2025 NC TAC Titans ESSZ Spring Senior Section” on Meet Mobile
After the first two days of the Cary, North Carolina sectionals, host team TAC Titans lead the way on scoring.
Among TAC’s top performers are 15-year-olds Sloane Whelehan and Carolin He. On the first night of competition, Whelehan anchored TAC’s 800 free B relay in a field-leading 1:45.80, nearly running down the A relay. Whelehan followed up that swim with an individual 200 free win the next day, logging a 1:48.48. Though off her 1:46.98 best from North Carolina’s high school states in February, Sloane’s time was fast enough to fend off the runner-up: her older sister, Meredith (1:48.78).
The Whelehans’ teammate, Carolin He, controlled the 100 breaststroke field. He raced to a 1:01.66 win, crushing her 1:02.39 PR from high school states. Three events later, the 15-year-old followed the win up with a runner-up finish in the 400 IM. Her time, 4:15.51, beat out her old personal best by 2.5 seconds. The win in this event went to TAC Titan and Tennessee commit Nicole Zettel, who logged a 4:12.60. Zettel finished 1.5 seconds off her 4:11.10 best from 2023.
Davis Jackson of the TAC Titans put up a dominant in the men’s 400 IM. Coming in with a 3:50.52 lifetime best from a TAC meet last November, Jackson cracked the 3:50 barrier. His time, 3:49.79, was good enough to win by nearly six seconds.
Other men’s events went to professional international swimmers, including Brazil’s Breno Correia in the 200 free (1:35.68) and Colombia’s Jorge Murillo in the 100 breast (52.35). Correia and Murillo both train in the Triangle Area, Correia for Wolfpack Elite and Murillo for TAC.
Two more days of competition remain.
Full winner list through day 2:
- Women’s 1000 free: Kaylee Dietrich (TAC) — 10:06.31
- Men’s 1000 free: Liam Drake (RSA) — 9:07.59
- Women’s 800 free relay: TAC Titans A — 7:14.40
- Men’s 800 free relay: TAC Titans B — 6:41.66
- Women’s 200 free: Sloane Whelehan (TAC) — 1:48.40
- Men’s 200 free: Breno Correia (WOLF) — 1:35.68
- Women’s 100 breast: Carolin He (TAC) — 1:01.66
- Men’s 100 breast: Jorge Murillo (TAC) — 52.35
- Women’s 100 fly: Nicole Nixon (TAC) — 52.85
- Men’s 100 fly: Channing Cloud (SMRT) — 48.13
- Women’s 400 IM: Nicole Zettel (TAC) — 4:12.60
- Men’s 400 IM: Davis Jackson (TAC) — 3:49.79
Team Scores Through Day 2:
Men
- TAC Titans — 580
- Kentucky Aquatics — 142
- South Carolina Swim Club — 106.5
- Columbia Swimming — 96
- City of Charleston Southern — 85
Women
- TAC Titans — 550
- Raleigh Swimming Association — 147
- Ensworth Aquatics — 127
- Waves of Wilmington — 81
- City of Charleston Southern — 70
Great swims, awesome to see such fast times, congrats to all the swimmers!
33 year old Jorge Murillo statpadding at a senior sectional meet. TAC needs to let the kids swim.
It is completely ridiculous and has been going on for a few years, now.
This was a Senior Sectional meet not a junior age restricted meet. There are typically swimmers who are over 18 competing at these meets.
Are teams losing interest in the Sectional meets? Seems teams are looking for other options for both competition and cost effectiveness.
In my opinion, it’s close to a lot of hs state champs so coaches would rather have the extra weeks in between and swim a meet end of March, not the beginning
This is because barely any other teams participated in this meet. Shouldn’t have even counted as a Championship meet when most other NC teams didn’t participate.
Ahhh North Carolina swimming, never a letdown with the drama.
Like, is it TAC’s fault that nobody came to a sectional meet? lol
yes
Why didn’t other NC teams go?
Seems TAC’s toxic culture has alienated itself
Sadly, yes.
Yes
Teams in nc are sick of going to Cary. Unfortunately Greensboro used for all the college/national meets. Families are tired of the same city, same pool but unfortunately Cary and Greensboro only two pools big enough to host. Charlotte teams finally going to Atlanta now. No one wants to go to tac anymore
If it were because everyone was sick of the same pool, they wouldn’t be going to GAC and even more, MAC (expensive hotels, parking, very poor spectator situation). Senior Champs was packed at MAC- with hundreds of swimmers in each event- and more competitive than Sectionals. It’s because the TAC toxic culture and entitlement of staff, coaches, and swimmers there. It’s sad because it’s a waste of a nice facility.
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