By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
2025 SwimStrong Dryland National Championships
- March 20 – 23, 2025
- Fishers, Indiana
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Results on MeetMobile
The 2025 SwimStrong Dyland National Championships ended with a bang on Sunday. After the main competition was done, Bellevue Club Swim Team and Fishers Area Swimming Tigers took to the blocks in a race to break the Mixed 15-18 400 medley relay National Age Group Record (NAG).
Both teams ended up breaking the record of 3:25.59 that Mount Pleasant Aquatic Club’s Kiersten O’Connor, Joseph Gardner, David Mutter, and Lily Kingswam during a time trial in December 2024. Before Mount Pleasant’s swim, NCAP had held the record at 3:25.84 since 2019.
Four-tenths separated Bellevue and Fishers as the two sailed under the 3:25 mark, with Bellevue’s Sutton Forbis, Christian Wong, Kamryn Meskill, and Torsten Hokanson taking the win and the record with a 3:24.49. The team cut 1.10 seconds off the record as Fishers’ quartet of Julie Mishler, Jihoon Jung, Alex Koo, and Emily Wolfalso cleared Mount Pleasant’s standard.
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Split Comparison:
| Bellevue Club Swim Team (New NAG Record) | Fishers Area Swimming Tigers | Mount Pleasant Aquatic Club (Former NAG Record) | |
| Back | Forbis — 53.63 | Mishler — 52.19 | O’Connor — 56.05 |
| Breast | Wong — 54.37 | Jung — 54.94 | Gardner — 54.26 |
| Fly | Meskill — 52.85 | Koo — 48.52 | Mutter — 47.73 |
| Free | Hokanson — 43.64 | Wolf — 49.24 | King — 47.55 |
As is often the case with the mixed medley relay, the order that teams choose to line up their girls and boys creates a thrilling race. Fishers opted to go girl-boy-boy-girl to Bellevue’s girl-boy-girl-boy and led for the majority of the race.
Mishler, a senior committed to Louisville, led off for Fishers in 52.19, giving her team the lead while the 15-year-old Forbis swam a lifetime best 53.63 on her lead off leg. Wong made up some ground with a 54.37 breaststroke split, but the fly leg widened the gap. Hokanson dove in more than five seconds behind Fishers, but ate into the lead over his anchor leg and went past Wolf in the closing yards to win by four-tenths.
Mount Pleasant’s mark still stands as the Mixed 17-18 400 medley relay National Age Group record.
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