Club Records, Futures Cuts, and National Rankings at 2025 Southern Premier

February 28, 2025 — Baylor Swim Club traveled to Nashville from Feb. 28-Mar. 2 to compete at the 2025 Southern Premier Championships, hosted at the Tracy Caulkins Natatorium, for our last championship meet of the short course yards season! This event featured some of the top teams – nationally and regionally. We want to personally congratulate all the swimmers that achieved getting a cut to swim at this event and for the way you represented Baylor Swim Club!

Qualifiers

Here are the following swimmers that qualified for the event – organized by their group!

Age Group: Arya Clinebell, Jacob Greene, Owen Isch

Junior Group: Harrison Banks, Keilah Holliman, Nissa Ruth, Eli Summers, Lily Vicknair, Carmyn Watkins

Senior Group: Kayden Bok, Wyeth Carle, Monroe Chittum, Anna Bennett Curtis, Grace Dauphinais, Marley Degenhardt, Javier Diaz Lopez, Ethan Gover, Ben Hardin, Luke Higgo, Elijah Holliman, Jed Holliman, Connor Hupman, Cooper Lehman, Ellie Lydon, Mitchell Maedel, Noah Maranzana, Lucinda Ranalli, Aubrey Robbins, Hunter Shaw, Peighton Skeate, Jon Smith, Violet Smith, Ava Sugden, Anara Summers, Felix Vicknair, Hayden Vicknair, Luke Waldrep, Radford Walker, Katherine Wheddon

Futures Cuts, Club Records, and All-Time Rankings

During the meet, we had two new Futures cuts qualifiers! Congratulations to Peighton Skeate – qualifying in the 400 IM (4:29.37) – and Ava Sugden – qualifying in the 200 Backstroke (2:03.95). This now adds up to Baylor Swim Club having a total of 18 Futures qualifiers – 10 more from last year!

Lily Vicknair ended her 2024-2025 SCY season by breaking 4 more club records – adding up to a total of 6 club records. During Southern Premier, Lily broke the 50 Breaststroke (31.33), 100 IM (1:02.39), 200 IM (2:15.04), and the 100 Butterfly (59.74). The following are the previous records and who they were held by:

  • 50 Breaststroke – 31.59 (Alison Lusk)
  • 100 IM – 1:02.56 (Stephanie Napier)
  • 200 IM – 2:15.64 (Alison Lusk)
  • 100 Butterfly – 1:00.54 (Stephanie Napier)

Noteworthy nationally ranked swims were also made during Southern Premier by Hayden Vicknair – clocking in a time that places him 24th all time for the 15-16 age group in the 200 Butterfly (with a time of 1:45.18). Hayden also clocked the 49th best time in history for the 15-16 age group in the 100 Butterfly (with a time of 47.54) this year.

Congratulations to everyone on a great short course season – Baylor Swim Club is now ready for long course! Here are the following meets coming up:

  • Red and Grey Intrasquad Meet – April 12th
  • Arena Invite – May 2nd