{"id":52716,"date":"2025-11-19T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52716\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:42:07","slug":"ethan-ekk-breaks-stanford-school-record-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52716\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Ekk Breaks Stanford School Record \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F11%2F19%2Ftallahassee-alumni-ethan-ekk-breaks-stanford-school-record%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Tallahassee+Alumni%3A+Ethan+Ekk+Breaks+Stanford+School+Record https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/11\/19\/tallahassee-alumni-ethan-ekk-breaks-stanford-school-record\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 24th, the Stanford swim team competed against No. 3 ranked Arizona State and No. 4 ranked California in a tri-meet double dual format at Stanford\u2019s Avery Aquatic Center and California\u2019s Spieker Aquatic Complex\u00a0over the course of two days.<\/p>\n<p>Tri-Meet Vs No.3 ASU and No.4 CAL<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal set the pace early on Day 1, highlighted by Chiles alumnus and freshman Ethan Ekk\u2019s commanding victory in the 1000 free, where he posted a time of 8:42.25 in his first collegiate win. Not only was this a personal best, but Ekk also etched his name into Stanford\u2019s record books by breaking the school record previously set by Grant Shoults in 2022. Ekk added to his performance with a second-place finish in the 400 IM with a time of 3:44.78 and a fifth-place finish in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:43.64. Both performances stood as the top marks by a Stanford swimmer in each event. <\/p>\n<p>Stanford ended the first day with a 125-73 lead over California and trailed Arizona State with scores of 106-90, keeping the 2024 National Champions in striking distance. <\/p>\n<p>Stanford went on to beat California  by a score of 205-134 but fell short of Arizona State with a final score of 134-204.<\/p>\n<p>High School Accomplishments<\/p>\n<p>While in Highschool at Chiles, Ekk accumulated four state titles, two in the 500 free, one in the 200 free and one in the 200 IM. <\/p>\n<p>Stanfords next meet is the SMU invite against Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX on Nov. 19th<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F11%2F19%2Ftallahassee-alumni-ethan-ekk-breaks-stanford-school-record%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Tallahassee+Alumni%3A+Ethan+Ekk+Breaks+Stanford+School+Record https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/11\/19\/tallahassee-alumni-ethan-ekk-breaks-stanford-school-record\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; On Oct. 24th, the Stanford swim team competed against No. 3 ranked Arizona State and No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-52716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}