2022 Swammy Awards: Age Group Swimmer of the 12 months

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2022 Honorees: Drue Rogers & Ayden Tan

Editor’s be aware: due to ongoing challenges with the USA Swimming outcomes database, figuring out the entire high candidates for this 12 months’s age group awards in an goal manner has been difficult. We’ve carried out our greatest to search out them, nevertheless it’s attainable that we missed somebody apparent. If that’s the case, please tell us within the feedback!

There have been no particular person 10 & underneath Nationwide Age Group Information this 12 months, which leaves a wide-open competitors for this 12 months’s age group honors.

Ladies Award: Drue Rogers, Lakeside Aquatic Membership (TX)

Three swimmers from the women’ 10 & underneath group stood out in 2022, however one stood out even above that group Drue Rogers from the Lakeside Aquatic Membership in Texas.

Final 12 months’s award winner Delaney O’Toole aged up earlier than she raced in 2022, leaving room for a number of the later-in-the-year birthday swimmers to step into the vacuum within the spring of 2022.

Rogers gained all 7 particular person occasions she entered on the North Texas age group championships in March, and in addition had the quickest time in prelims of every of these occasions.

Rogers’ Greatest Occasions, 9-10, SCY:

• 50 free – 27.13
• 100 free – 56.20
• 200 free – 2:01.26
• 500 free – 5:31.25
• 100 again – 1:04.31
• 100 fly – 1:01.16
• 200 IM – 2:17.38

Ladies’ Honorable Mentions:

• Lauren Lonsdale, Sacramento Aquatics Membership – Lonsdale has been the dominant performer of the present group who will flip the 12 months over nonetheless at 10-years outdated, main the present lengthy course and brief course IMX and IMR rankings. On the 2022 Far Western Championships in April in yards, she gained a whopping 7 particular person occasions.
  • 50y free – 26.32
  • 100y free – 56.98
  • 200y free – 2:02.44
  • 500y free – 5:25.40
  • 100y again – 1:04.66
  • 100y breast – 1:09.75
  • 100y fly – 1:07.05
  • 100y IM – 1:04.61
  • 200y IM – 2:18.60
• Penelope Lopez-Casula, Eagle Aquatics – Lopez-Casula aged-up early within the 12 months, however not earlier than she did some injury within the 10 & underneath age group. She gained six races on the Florida Gold Coast Brief Course Junior Olympics in March, with the one blemish being a 2nd-place end within the 50 fly. After growing old up, she had 4 runner-up finishes within the lengthy course version of that meet in July, even being barely-11 and racing within the 11-12 age group.
  • 50y free – 25.44
  • 100y free – 56.27
  • 200y free – 2:00.12
  • 500y free – 5:28.21
  • 100y again – 1:06.60

Boys Award: Ayden Tan, DART Swimming

Ayden Tan began his run within the 10 & underneath age group final season, the place at the same time as a 9-year-old he had spectacular nationwide rankings within the 10 & underneath age group. That features the nation’s quickest 10 & underneath 100 IM and tied-for-fastest 10 & underneath 50 free.

Now, even with about 9 months left nonetheless within the age group, he has risen to a brand new degree this season, rating #1 nationally in 7 occasions already this season.

• 100 free – 55.32 (#2)
• 200 free – 2:00.29 (#2)
• 500 free – 5:21.73 (#1)
• 100 again – 1:01.76 (#1)
• 100 breast – 1:10.98 (#1)
• 100 fly – 1:01.51 (#1)
• 100 IM – 1:03.19 (#1) – additionally led final season
• 200 IM – 2:13.20 (#1)

In the entire occasions apart from the 50 free, 200 free, and 500 free, his time is quicker than any 10 & underneath has been this season or final season.

At Far Westerns in lengthy course meters over the summer time, he gained the 100 free (1:03.61), 100 again (1:12.88), 50 breast (38.22), 50 fly (32.47), 100 fly (1:11.35), and 200 IM (2:32.88). Punctuating his excessive versatility, he gained that 200 IM by greater than 16 seconds.

On the spring LSC Championships in yards, swimming towards mostly-older swimmers within the 10 & underneath age group, he gained six occasions as effectively.

Boys’ Honorable Mentions:

• Joaquin Seay, Alamo Space Aquatic Affiliation – Seay’s 25.57 within the 50 free two weeks in the past at a San Antonio-hosted meet was the quickest 50 yard free we’ve seen by a ten & underneath since earlier than the pandemic hit in early 2020. He gained the 50 and 100 free on the summer time lengthy course TAGS Championships.
• Aiden Nguyen, Mansfield Aquatics – Nguyen went ham ultimately week’s COR Basic to stake his declare on an honorable point out award, profitable 8 occasions and crushing his finest instances nearly across-the-board. He’s the one swimmer nationally who has been sooner than Tan within the 100 (55.09) and 200 (1:58.14) free this 12 months, together with by nearly two seconds within the 200. He additionally swam 1:03.61 within the 100-yard again, 1:01.87 within the 100-yard fly, and a couple of:15.38 within the 200-yard IM. Nguyen additionally gained 4 lengthy course titles over the summer time in lengthy course TAGS.

PAST WINNERS

YEAR	10-U GIRL	10-U BOY
2021	Drue Rogers	Ayden Tan
2021	Delaney O’Toole	Reef McMeeking
2020	Lexi Sereno	Spencer Belbot
2019	Kayla Han	Joey Campagnola
2018	Alexis Mesina	Timothy Lee
2017	Erika Pelaez	Kaii Winkler
2016	Leah Hayes	Jaeddan Gamilla
2015	Miriam Sheehan	Ronald Dalmacio
2014	Meghan Lynch	Andrew Rogers
2013	Lillie Nordmann	Winn Aung
2012	Regan Smith	Destin Lasco