2022 VSI SC Senior Championships
- March 3 – March 6, 2022
- Collegiate School Aquatic Center
- Richmond, VA
- Short Course Yards
- Results
Thomas Heilman had another successful weekend of racing at the 2022 Virginia Swimming SC Senior Championships in Richmond, Virginia. He raced his way to victory in both the 200 freestyle and 200 butterflies, took bronze in the 100 backstroke, and placed 4th in the 100 breast.
In the 200 freestyle, he dropped a 1:36.65 in the prelims and got down to a 1:35.02 during finals, which is within a second of his 1:34.68 PB. Heilman swam that PB back in December to establish a new national age group record.
In the 200 butterfly, Heilman won the event in a 1:44.37 to trail his personal best of 1:42.77, which is also from December 2021 as well as a NAG.
In the 100 backstroke, he swam a 49.57 to finish 3rd overall behind Kyle Peck‘s 47.24 and Teddy Cross‘ 48.97. Meanwhile, in the 100 breaststroke, he was just off the podium in a 56.83 while Brock Rempe (55.17), Dillon Delaney (55.91), and Ben Eichberg (56.52) collected the hardware in that event.
Zoe Dixon also had a busy weekend of racing as she picked up 6 individual medals for NOVA. The University of Florida commit stood atop the podium in the 200 and 400 IM, the 100 and 200 backstroke, and the 200 butterfly, and earned bronze in the 200 freestyle.
She swam new personal bests in the 200 freestyle (1:47.54), the 200 butterfly (1:56.78), and the 400 IM (4:06.43). In the freestyle, she shaved more than a second off her entry time of 1:49.12 to place third in a 1:47.54 to Kayla Wilson and Emile Claesson who went 1-2 for Tide in a 1:43.17 and 1:47.51, respectively.
That was a PB for Wilson, who will race for Stanford next year, having entered the meet with a lifetime best of 1:44.22 from earlier this year.
Other multi-event winners at the meet included Molly Blanchard who swept the women’s breaststrokes (1:02.85/2:13.42), Clayton Whetstine who won the men’s 200 and 400 IMs (1:51.52/3:57.44), and Kyle Peck who took gold in both the 100 fly (48.65) and 100 backstroke (47.24).
Wonder who swept all 3 Male distance events but was not mentioned? Distance never gets the respect. 😞 Oh, it was Junior Bobby DiNunzio of TIDE committed to UVA.
Don’t worry he’ll get an article a week once he gets to uva.
fax tho Distance swimmers deserve more respect, that stuff hurts mentally and physically, but still these sprint events are fun to watch and are hype.
Forgot to Brendan Whitfield winning the 100 free with a 45.07 in a brief.
Tide, coast guard, cav aquatics. Some really good clubs with really good swimmers. Nova wins because of numbers but superior coaching going on in other parts of the state.
We will see re:TIDE. Lots of coaching changes the past couple of years, and not a lot of new blood coming up in the ranks. They have a ton of seniors moving on this year and last. CGBD was the most impressive to me…2nd place scoring 1107 points with only 42 swimmers. Nobody else came close to production per swimmer like that. CAV had 3 less swimmers and only scored 539.
It was disappointing that the Headline was about Thomas Heilman. That 2 fly was very impressive but so was Kayla Wilsons jaw dropping 200 Free (along with her 50-100 free wins), Kyle Pecks Backstroke streamlines/swims, Zoe Dixons swims (especially the 400 IM,) The Tide Girls free relays (3 state records). DiNunzios distance dominance and The Coast Guard Blue Dolphin swimmers filling up the A finals all weekend.
I understand that the writers at SwimSwam are overwhelmed with covering all the club state championships, NCAA, (and of course covering the UVA Womens team) this time of the year. But I think that everyone who was in Richmond last weekend watching the meet probably feel that Thomas Heilman was not the… Read more »
You should give more of a mention to Kyle Peck. His meet was more jaw dropping than Hellman’s, without taking any credit away from thomas.
Kyle peck’s 200 back definitely deserves more attention
Kyle Peck also won the 200 back and High point for boys at the meet
I would have thought that the 1:43.17 200 FR swim by Wilson would have a little more of a mention. AKAIK, that is the 2nd fastest ever swim by a HS Senior and 25th all time for Women
I have no idea what AKAIK means, but the rest of your statement just isn’t true. Missy, Ledecky, Dagny all come to mind off the top of my head. Probably Katie Hoff, Katie McLaughlin, Torri, Jasmine Tosky without checking. Maybe Schmitty. That’s without checking notes.
It’s a typo, but it should be for as far as I know. I checked USA swimming all time top 25 and all of the swims faster than this were college or post grad with the exception of Katie. Feel free to check, but Kayla’s swim is listed at #25.
I see where you’re getting your info on USAS site, but let’s just say there’s a glitch in your data. I can’t believe nobody EVER swam between Simone’s 1:41.4 listed as #24 and Kayla’s 1:43.1listed as #25. Off the top of my head I don’t see Katie Hoff or Dagny or Katie McLaughlin (yes I’m old). Let’s agree Kayla’s was a good swim, but the data is misleading. USAS wrong again – shocking.
“as kar as i know”
Kids like this peak at such a young age
Yeah nobody who ever broke a National Age Group Record ever went on to do anything in swimming.
*Checks Notes*
Michael Phelps
Ryan Murphy
Caeleb Dressel
Katie Ledecky
Missy Franklin
Michael Andrew
Katie Hoff
Regan Smith
Every single one of them was a bust. STRAIGHT BUST!
MA is bust
olympic gold medalist
world record holder
american record holder
Not surprised to see the childishness continues. Like him or not, or disagree with his training homie still has an AR in his name LC and you don’t.
never heard of them, Did they excel in other sports in high school?
All of the swimmers Braden listed should be ashamed of their accomplishments. That Phelps guy especially. He really didn’t contribute anything to the sport after his first NAG record.
Yeah he fell off pretty quickly didn’t go any direction except down
John Moffet, Dave Wharton, Aaron Peirsol and Ian Crocker come to mind as well.
And don’t forget Jason lezak man really blew it on that relay in Beijing in 2008 had so much potential to not only run down Alain Bernard but also split a time that no could touch for 14 or 15 years
Also Anthony Ervin he’s been trying to make the Olympic team for so many years BIG FLOP. Couldn’t even win 2 Olympic golds 16 years apart
they do. And some of them peak again. And again
in all seriousness, there is a point though. If you look at a regional age group meet, 90-97% of the times the top 3 disappears by College. (And I will find out that number more exactly)
Does Thomas Heilman swim any IM? That 56.8 is nasty
Looks like 1:46.6 and 3:51 in the IMs according to swimcloud. So, an emphatic “yes.” Although I had forgotten as well since those fly times are so jaw-dropping.