Thomas Heilman and Alana Berlin Headline the 2025 YMCA Short Course Nationals (Psych Sheets) ...0

By Claire Wong on SwimSwam

2025 YMCA Short Course National Championships

The annual YMCA Short Course Nationals will take place at the Greensboro Aquatic Center next week, and several big names will be in attendance. Most notably, 2024 Paris Olympian Thomas Heilman will be competing. This will be his first time swimming at this meet since 2022, as he was absent last year, and in 2023, he opted to attend the USA Swimming National Junior Team training camp in Colorado Springs, which was the same weekend as YNats. Throughout his career, Heilman has a total of 8 YMCA National titles (including relays), all of which were earned during his sole time competing at this meet, in 2022.

Heilman, who represents Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Family YMCA and is committed to Virginia for this fall, is currently set to swim the 100 fly, 400 IM, 200 IM, and 200 fly. He is the top seed in all of his events, with his times in the 100 fly, 200 fly, and 200 IM coming from his otherworldly performance at Winter Juniors this past December, where he broke the 17-18 NAG records in the 100/200 fly. The butterfly events are also what he swam at the Olympics, as he finished 1st in the 200 fly and 2nd in the 100 fly at Trials.

On the womens’ side, the biggest name highlighting the psych sheets is Stanford commit Alana Berlin. At the Wisconsin YMCA states this past week, Berlin swam a 23.71 backstroke split leading off Schroeder’s 200 medley relay and split a 21.56 50 free to achor the 200 free relay. Her performance at states indicates some big drops this coming week, and she enters as the top seed in the 100 back, 100 free, 100 fly, 200 IM, and 100 breast.

Berlin’s teammate, Maggie Dickinson, is another up-and-comer to keep an eye on. Although just a freshman, she’s the top seed in the 200 back (1:55.88), seeded second behind Berlin in the 100 back (53.28) and 100 free (50.44), and the #8 seed in the 50 free (23.36).

Wisconsin commit Molly Yacoviello, the defending champion in the 100 and 200 breast, will look to defend her titles. She is currently top seed in the 200 breast (2:10.87), 400 IM (4:16.13), 200 fly (1:59.69), and seeded 4th in the 100 breast (1:01.99)

Other exciting races to watch out for include the mens’ backstrokes, where Cal commit Kenny Barnicle and Virginia Tech commit Connor Johnson will look to battle it out. Barnicle of Greater Somerset County YMCA is the top seed in the 200 at 1:44.82, while Johnson of Lakeland Hills YMCA is seeded second at 1:45.01. The two are flipped in the 100 back, as Barnicle is seeded second (47.71) while Johnson is seeded first (47.64). Luke Lamb, a Navy commit, sits at the #3 seed in both events.

Seth Morgan of Rocky Mount Family YMCA holds the top seeds in both breaststroke events, entering with a time of 54.11 in the 100 and 1:58.99 in the 200. He has made impressive strides over the past year, as he finished 21st and 13th, respectively, in those two events at this meet just last year.

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