\t\t\t\t\t2026 Speedo Sectionals \u2013 Austin<\/p>\n
July 15-19, 2026
\nAustin, Texas
\nLee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center
\nLCM (50 meters)
\nResults on Meet Mobile: \u201c2026 ST TXLA SZ LC Sectional Champs\u201d<\/p>\n
Simone Manuel<\/a>\u00a0highlighted the opening day of the 2026 Speedo Sectionals in Austin with a very impressive performance in the 100 freestyle, while many of her Texas pro group teammates also performed well in their home pool.<\/p>\n Manuel, 29, put up a time of 53.15 in the women\u2019s 100 free, lowering her previous season-best of 53.33, set at the U.S. Open in December, to move up from a tie for 13th into 11th in the world this season.<\/p>\n After clocking 53.98 in the prelims behind splits of 26.08\/27.90, Manuel was out more than half a second faster in the final (25.53) while still managing to close a bit quicker in 27.62.<\/p>\n Since setting her season-best in December, Manuel has produced five other sub-54 swims in 2026 prior to this meet: 53.55 in January, 53.88 in March, 53.94 in April, and then 53.50 and 53.67 at last month\u2019s Longhorn Elite Invite.<\/p>\n Manuel is one of many Texas pro swimmers who will represent the U.S. at next month\u2019s Pan Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n Placing 2nd to Manuel in the women\u2019s 100 free was rising Texas senior\u00a0Erin Gemmell<\/a>, who clocked 54.52, while rising sophomore and Hungarian native\u00a0Nikolett Padar<\/a> rounded out the top three in 55.02 after going 54.52 in the prelims.<\/p>\n In the men\u2019s 100 free, it was\u00a0Chris Guiliano<\/a> powering to victory in a time of 48.40, with\u00a0Luke Hobson<\/a> the only other swimmer sub-50 in 49.98. Both are members of the Pan Pac team.<\/p>\n Guiliano is the fastest American so far this season, ranking 3rd in the world with his 47.38 from the Westmont Pro Swim in March.<\/p>\n Other U.S. Pan Pac roster members picking up wins were\u00a0Regan Smith<\/a>,\u00a0Carson Foster<\/a>,\u00a0Shaine Casas<\/a>,\u00a0Jillian Cox<\/a> and\u00a0Rex Maurer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Smith won the women\u2019s 200 fly in 2:06.18, topping training partner Lindsay Looney<\/a> (2:08.65), while current Longhorns\u00a0Angie Coe<\/a>\u00a0(2:10.37) and\u00a0Campbell Stoll<\/a> (2:11.50) also had strong swims.<\/p>\n Smith went out fast, turning in 59.70 at the 100, and was still within a half-second of her American Record pace at the 150 before tightening up on the way home and splitting 34.20.<\/p>\n Stoll, the reigning NCAA champion in the 200 fly, narrowly missed her personal best time of 2:11.47, set just over a year ago at the 2025 Longhorn Elite Invite.<\/p>\n Foster rolled to victory in the men\u2019s 200 fly in a time of 1:55.33, slowly but surely pulling away from\u00a0Mitchell Schott<\/a> (1:55.82) on the back half.<\/p>\n Foster owns a season-best of 1:55.09, set at the Fort Lauderdale Open in April, while Schott knocked four one-hundredths off his previous best time of 1:55.86.<\/p>\n Tyler Ray<\/a>, the recent Michigan grad who announced his move to the Texas pro group a few months ago, was 3rd in 1:58.03 after setting a lifetime best of 1:57.99 in the prelims. His previous PB stood at 1:58.36, set back in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n Shaine Casas<\/a> ripped a time of 24.67 en route to winning the men\u2019s 50 back, with\u00a0Will Modglin<\/a> and\u00a0Jack Wilkening<\/a> tying for 2nd in 25.17. Casas currently ranks 14th in the world this his season-best of 24.53 from the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n In the timed finals of the 800 freestyle, Cox won the women\u2019s event in 8:24.90, with teammate\u00a0Kate Hurst<\/a> the only other swimmer sub-9:00 in 8:32.45.<\/p>\n Cox essentially even-split the race, out in 4:12.33 at the 400-meter mark and then back in 4:12.57. She improves on her season-best of 8:26.04 to move up from 14th into 12th in the 2025-26 world rankings. As for Hurst, she was less than three seconds shy of her 8:29.58 season-best.<\/p>\n Maurer won the men\u2019s race in 7:53.90, just shy of his 7:52.71 season-best from last month\u2019s Longhorn Elite Invite. He was out fast, turning in 3:52.83 at the 400, before falling off pace coming home, splitting 30-plus throughout the majority of the back half before the final 100.<\/p>\n Rising Texas sophomore\u00a0Aiden Hammer<\/a>\u00a0placed 2nd in 8:01.21.<\/p>\n OTHER EVENTS<\/p>\n German native\u00a0Anna Elendt<\/a>\u00a0dominated the women\u2019s 200 breaststroke field in 2:25.01, using an aggressive strategy with a 1:09.09 opening 100. The time is just shy of her 2:24.77 season-best set in April at the German Championships.
\nAustrian native and former Michigan Wolverine\u00a0Luka Mladenovic<\/a> won the men\u2019s 200 breast in a time of 2:11.88, outduelling training partners Campbell McKean<\/a> (2:12.75) and\u00a0Nate Germonprez<\/a> (2:13.14). Mladenovic was much more conservative than the other two on the opening 50, but was significantly faster on the second length and then was the only one able to keep his back half sub-1:09 to book the victory. Mladenovic owns a personal best time of 2:10.08, set last year, and he\u2019s been as fast as 2:10.87 so far this year.
\nIn the lone race not won by a Texas swimmer, Texas A&M\u2019s\u00a0Halina Panczyszyn<\/a> claimed the women\u2019s 50 back in a time of 29.29, matching her personal best on the number. Rising Texas sophomore\u00a0Sarah Rodrigues<\/a> was the runner-up in 29.35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Speedo Sectionals \u2013 Austin July 15-19, 2026 Austin, Texas Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center LCM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58091,58095,50876,132,134,133,58097,50761,50883,50885,50762,55214,104090,58110,50763,54901,99678,50898,104091,58116,115746,50903,58119,58121,50906,50907,104092,58122],"class_list":["post-375569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-aiden-hammer","tag-angie-coe","tag-anna-elendt","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-campbell-mckean","tag-campbell-stoll","tag-carson-foster","tag-chris-guiliano","tag-erin-gemmell","tag-halina-panczyszyn","tag-jack-wilkening","tag-jillian-cox","tag-kate-hurst","tag-lindsay-looney","tag-luka-mladenovic","tag-luke-hobson","tag-mitchell-schott","tag-nate-germonprez","tag-nikolett-padar","tag-regan-smith","tag-rex-maurer","tag-sarah-rodrigues","tag-shaine-casas","tag-simone-manuel","tag-tyler-ray","tag-will-modglin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}