By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
The 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships had their ups and downs, but one of the major bright spots of the championships were the 17-year-old British boys. This age group started the year strong but continued to make waves in London. It isn’t even halfway through the year, and five 17-year-old British boys have broken seven National Age Group records.
The 2025 season is still young—many countries still need to hold their trials for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships—but for Great Britain, which concluded its Trials this weekend, one of the major highlights of the early season has been the rise of its male junior team. It’s the end of April, and the 17-year-old boys have already broken seven of their British Age Group Records.
Most of those records came down in London at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, but Dean Fearn got the onslaught started earlier this month at the Scottish National Age Group Championships, taking down Jacob Peters’ record in the 50 butterfly, swimming 23.69. Fearn nearly got in one the record-breaking party in London, missing Jonny Marshall’s 100 backstroke age group record by about four-tenths of a second. He could keep the party going though—Fearn doesn’t age up until 2026.
Once the championships got underway in London, the records started falling fast, focused mainly on the sprint events. Repton’s Jacob Mills made waves in the sprint freestyle events, punching his ticket to Singapore in addition to breaking records. Mills was sensational in the 100 freestyle, first tying the overall British junior record in prelims, then lowering it with a 48.03 for second-place in the final, hitting the Aquatics GB Worlds consideration time.
He followed up by taking down the 17-year-old NAG in the 50 freestyle, hitting 21.96 to continue his improvement curve in the event by breaking 22 seconds for the first time. The time broke Tom Fannon’s 17-year-old NAG and tied Mills as the sixth-fastest man in British history.
Mills has been steadily climbing the rankings, but Plymouth Lea’s Jack Brown burst onto the scene in British Open 100 butterfly final. While most eyes were fixed on the battle between Ed Mildred and Peters, Brown fired off a 51.87 for second-place. It has been a spring of rapid improvement for Brown. He held a lifetime best of 54.3 until February, and had a similarly dramatic drop of about 3.6 seconds in the 200 butterfly earlier in the meet.
Finally, all three breaststroke records in the age group went down. Max Morgan was responsible for the sprints, swimming 27.69/1:00.10 in the 50/100 breaststroke. In the latter, it looked like he was on pace to break 1:00 until the closing meters, when an ill-timed finish cost him the feat. Still, he smashed the previous record of 1:00.47, which had stood since 2012, as he won silver.
Millfield’s Filip Nowacki was also under that long-standing 100 breaststroke record, swimming a 1:00.28. Though he missed putting his name on the record book in that event, he accomplished the feat in the 200 breast, swimming a 2:11.09, bettering the 2:12.48 mark from 2019.
The slew of records would be enough of a reason for Aquatics GB to celebrate, but there are more factors adding to the positives. First, these records weren’t just broken by one superstar, five boys—from five different clubs—were responsible for these seven records, meaning there’s a handful of swimmers to look to as the future of British men’s swimming.
That future might be coming sooner than later. Except for the 100 backstroke, one of these 17-year-olds earned silver in each 100-meter British Open final (freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly). This Olympic quad is just beginning, and with another three years of racing, these boys could be key pieces of Team GB’s LA 2028 squad.
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