\t\t\t\t\t2026 Speedo Sectionals \u2013 Austin<\/p>\n
July 15-19, 2026 The Speedo Sectionals in Austin have officially come to a close, and the final day of action was spearheaded by Regan Smith<\/a>, who picked up another two wins in each of the final two women\u2019s events of the meet.<\/p>\n Day four featured only the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 200 IM and 50 butterfly. And on the women\u2019s side, the commonality between the two was the top finisher.<\/p>\n Smith first captured the 200 IM in 2:11.17, more than eight seconds quicker than the rest of the field. That time still sits well off her season best of 2:09.65 from the Longhorn Elite Invite in June, which slots her in as the 13th fastest performer in the world this season.<\/p>\n Directly after that, she was back on the blocks for the finals of the 50 fly, where once again, she would emerge as the winner, this time by a full second in 26.04. Nobody else in the field was able to keep up with Smith, as Avery Littlefield<\/a> was the next closest finisher in 27.04.<\/p>\n The men\u2019s results had some more variety, as the 200 IM was won by Shaine Casas<\/a>, who continued his strong showing in home water with his 1:57.63. This time is just more than a second slower than the time that he went in June at the Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invite in 1:56.42, a time that still ranks him 6th in the world for the season.<\/p>\n Just behind Casas in that 200 IM were a slew of Longhorns, both past and present; Carson Foster<\/a> finished runner-up, just over a second off of Casas\u2019 winning time in 1:58.88. Then came a trio of current Texas swimmers in Rex Maurer<\/a> (1:59.59), Michigan transfer Luka Mladenovic<\/a> (2:03.18), and Will Modglin<\/a> (2:03.54).<\/p>\n The final event of the meet, the men\u2019s 50 fly, was captured by Garrett Gould<\/a> in 24.01, a new lifetime best, topping his former best time from June of 2024 of 24.04 by just three hundredths of a second. In that winning effort, Gould just edged out Mark Nikolaev<\/a> and his 24,16 performance, as each of the top four swimmers in the final managed to clock times under 25 seconds.<\/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":378845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,133900,50883,58105,99678,133250,50903,58119,50906,58122],"class_list":["post-378844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-avery-littlefield","tag-carson-foster","tag-garrett-gould","tag-luka-mladenovic","tag-mark-nikolaev","tag-regan-smith","tag-rex-maurer","tag-shaine-casas","tag-will-modglin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378844","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=378844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAustin, Texas
\nLee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center
\nLCM (50 meters)
\nResults on Meet Mobile: \u201c2026 ST TXLA SZ LC Sectional Champs\u201d
\nRecaps:\u00a0Day 1<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Day 2<\/a> | Day 3<\/a><\/p>\n