By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
2025 Wisconsin YMCA State Championships
March 21-23, 2025 Schroeder YMCA, Brown Deer, Wisconsin Short Course Yards (25 yards) Results available via Meet Mobile: “2025 YMCA State”Fast swimming was on display in suburban Milwaukee last weekend at the 2025 Wisconsin YMCA State Championships. 17-year-old Alana Berlin from the Schroeder YMCA Swim Team was the clear headline, as she helped her team win two relays with some exceptional splits.
Berlin, a high school senior and Stanford commit, swam a 50 backstroke best time of 23.71 leading off Schroeder’s victorious 200 medley relay. That eclipsed her previous best of 23.97, resulting in a 0.26-second time drop.
That 50 backstroke split would have been faster than all but 10 leadoff splits at last week’s NCAA Championships meet – and she still has a full year to go before her first (likely) NCAA appearance.
Stanford freshman Annika Parkhe swam the backstroke leg for Stanford at NCAAs, and she clocked a best time of 24.23. The Cardinal touched 2nd to Virginia in a school record time of 1:33.00, and subbing in Berlin’s split of 23.71 would have put them at 1:32.48. While Virginia won in an NCAA record time of 1:31.10, they will not return Alex Walsh or Gretchen Walsh next year, who were their most dominant legs.
With Berlin joining, Stanford could be considered the way-too-early favorite to win their first 200 medley relay title since 2018, as they return every other leg of the relay.
See the full list of 50 backstroke leadoffs from last week’s NCAAs below.
Swimmer Team Split Claire Curzan Virginia 23.17 Bella Sims Florida 23.25 Emma Sticklen Texas 23.49 Kacey McKenna Indiana 23.51 Erika Pelaez NC State 23.54 Alice Velden Florida State 23.59 Kaitlyn Owens Texas A&M 23.60 Nyah Funderburke Ohio State 23.60 Emily Jones Alabama 23.66 Isabelle Stadden California 23.67 Casey Chung Michigan 23.77 Greer Pattison North Carolina 23.79 Lora Komoroczy Auburn 23.80 Maggie Wanezek Wisconsin 23.85 Miriam Sheehan Arizona State 23.92 Caroline Famous USC 23.93 Jess Geriane Notre Dame 23.96 Josephine Fuller Tennessee 23.98 Abby Karl Louisville 24.05 Annika Parkhe Stanford 24.23 Zoe Carlos-Broc LSU 24.24 Sydney Gring Pitt 24.26 Ali Pfaff Duke 24.38 Fay Lustria UCLA 24.50 Ellie Schrank Cincinnati 24.63 Lexi Duchsherer Arizona 25.07In addition to her 50 backstroke performance, Berlin also clocked a 21.56 anchor split on Schroeder’s winning 200 freestyle relay, which is a full second under her flat-start best time of 22.68. Her split would have been the third-quickest on Stanford’s 3rd place 200 free relay at NCAAs, where Torri Huske (20.92 flat start, 20.39 relay swing on medley relay) led the way ahead of Gigi Johnson (3rd leg, 21.31), Lucy Thomas (2nd leg, 21.60), and Amy Tang (anchor leg, 21.86).
While Berlin is a pure sprinter, that’s not the only area where she’s improving: she also swam a new lifetime best in the 500 freestyle (4:57.73). That was her only individual swim of the weekend, and she won by over 13 seconds.
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