Ian Platts-Mills Shines At NCAC Spring Tar Heel States ...0

By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam

2025 NCAC Spring Tar Heel States 

Senior Ian Platts-Mills was on fire at the 2025 NCAC Spring Tar Heel States meet, hitting lifetime bests in his five individual events and winning the four he raced in finals. His best swim of the weekend was his 400 IM, where he popped a lifetime best 3:45.23, moving him to #61 among 17-18 American boys. 

The 17-year-old Cal commit has been on a tear in the event this spring. He swam a 3:49.77 lifetime best in December at the Winter Junior Championships, which cut two-tenths off his previous standard, swum in March 2024. Since then, he logged a 3:48.48 at the GA Best of the South meet, before ripping his 3:45 lifetime best last weekend. Platts-Mills was a “Best of the Rest” recruit with a 3:49.92 lifetime best when we last ranked the high school boys’ class of 2025—he’s improved by 4.69 seconds since then and most of that drop came over the last four months. 

When ranked the class of 2025 last summer, Platts-Mills held lifetime bests of 4:26/15:15 in the 500/1650 freestyle. He didn’t race either event at this meet but has swum bests in both already this year, clocking 4:23.09/15:01.86 at GA Best of the South. 

Though he didn’t race the 500 or 1650 freestyle at Spring Tar Heel States, he still flexed his continually improving distance events, this time in the 1000 freestyle. He cracked his age group top 100 for the second time last weekend, swimming a 9:00.76 which ranks him 93rd. The swim is a 5.52-second drop from the time he swam at this meet last season and improves on the 9:04.03 he swam at the North Carolina Senior Championships just over a month ago. 

Platts-Mills also swam lifetime bests in the 200 backstroke (1:44.43), 200 breaststroke (2:01.16), and 100 butterfly (50.37). 

On the girls’ side, 16-year-old Daisy Collins also made her mark on the age group top 100, this time for American girls aged 15-16. Collins, the reigning North Carolina High School 1A/2A State champion in the 200 and 500 freestyle, swam 9:42.78 to win the girls’ 1000 freestyle last weekend. The time bettered the 9:43.45 she swam last month by .67 seconds, moving her from 63rd to 55th all-time in her national age group. 

After winning the 1000 freestyle, Collins touched first in the 50 backstroke (28.36) and 50 breaststroke (30.80), winning outside of her primary events in lifetime bests. She also placed second in the 400 IM (4:21.64) behind 17-year-old Isabel Wolk’s lifetime best effort of 4:17.80.

Wolk, like Platts-Mills, is committed to Cal, though as a junior, she won’t arrive in Berkeley until the fall of 2026. We listed her as a “Best of the Rest recruit” in our Way Too Early rankings girls’ high school class of 2026, and the 400 IM was far from her only lifetime best of the meet. Notably, she swam 1:47.41 in the 200 freestyle and 2:00.24 in the 200 IM. Her 200 IM improved on the 2:00.96 she swam at this meet last year. Wolk also swam a 23.50 lifetime best in the 50 freestyle and broke 2:00 for the first time in the 200 backstroke, hitting 1:59.68 to win.

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