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2026 USA Swimming Futures – Madison
July 29-August 1, 2026 Soderholm Aquatic Center, Madison, Wisconsin Long Course Meters (50m), Prelims/Finals Meet Central Livestream Meet Results (Posted post-session daily) Live results on Meet Mobile: “2026 TYR Futures Madison” or search “Madison”15-year-old Kam Gardiner won the girls’ 200 fly in a big time drop to highlight day 1 of the 2026 USA Swimming Futures Series stop in Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday.
Gardiner, who swims for the Peoria Area Water Wizards, won the event in 2:15.13. That ranks her as the #3 American 15-year-old nationally so far this season.
Her previous best time was a 2:18.32 done about a month ago, and her best time coming into 2026 was a 2:19.01. Her drops are pretty evenly spread throughout the race.
While Gardiner was not an official member of the U.S. junior team that traveled to the Canadian Mel Zajac Jr. Invitational, she did compete as part of an Illinois Zone Team that also attended. There she placed 14th in the 200 fly, but 2nd in the 100 fly – which she still has left to swim this week in Madison.
Another winner on a similar trajectory from Wednesday’s action is Brynn Sundell from the host Madison Aquatic Club. A rising high school senior and University of Wisconsin commit, Sundell won the 800 free in 8:59.12. That’s her first time under nine minutes in the event and continues the big drops she posted in this event last summer.
While it’s not a race she has swum often in her career, at last year’s Junior Nationals she dropped a 9:04.21. That came after a 10 second drop at this same Futures meet, which made for a total of 13 seconds of improvement over the calendar year.
While she committed to Wisconsin as more of a middle-distance/long sprint swimmer (she has a best of 1:48.6 in the 200 yard free and 4:19.4 in the 400 yard IM), some distance reinforcement would come in handy at the right moment for the Badgers, who will lose both Maddie Waggoner and Blair Stoneburg to graduation before Sundell arrives.
She also has 400 free relay potential for the Badgers, especially if she shows similar drops later in the week.
Annika Curran, another Madison Aquatic Club swimmer staying home to race for Wisconsin in fall 2026, won the girls’ 100 breast in 1:10.02. Curran has been faster in short course than long course to this point of her career, but that 1.87 second improvement on her lifetime best is a big lurch forward in the Olympic pool. She now ranks 7th among all American juniors in the event this season.
Molly Sweeney from Carmel, who chose this meet over Nationals this week, was 3rd in the 100 breast in 1:10.92.
Other Day 1 Winners:
Purdue’s Jonah Le won the men’s 100 breast in 1:02.02, which was a 1.25 second improvement on his best time from this same meet last year. That clears the 2026 US Nationals time standard in the event: his first such standard. Diego Nosack, one of Northwestern’s top performers, won the men’s 200 fly in 1:59.83. That misses his best time by about half-a-second – which still stands from 2023 Junior Nationals, in spite of his yards time improving by about three seconds in the same time period. Jiarui Xue from Princeton and the Minnesota Aquajets won the men’s 1500 free in 15:35.10. The top junior-aged finisher was Austin Bruford from the Carmel Swim Club in Indiana, who placed 3rd in 15:56.05. Wisconsin’s Izzy Enz, a rising senior, won the women’s 200 free in 2:01.31, which is a six-tenths improvement off her lifetime best from just three weeks ago. That’s her third best time of the summer already, making for a three second improvement in total. She led a Badger 1-2 with Andrea Dworak finishing 2nd in 2:02.08. Quinn Cynor won the men’s 200 free in 1:51.26 by half-a-second ahead of Zach Mendez from Missouri State. Cynor won the Horizon League Championship in the 500 free for Youngstown State as a 5th year transfer last season. The Madison Aquatic Club again defended home turf, winning the girls’ 200 free relay in 1:45.60, missing the LSC junior record by half-a-second. The team included Jane Garlock (26.38), Sundell (26.49), Abigail Frommelt (26.44), and Curran (26.29). The McFarland Spartan Sharks won the boys’ 200 free relay in 1:31.93. That team included twin brothers Blake Tebeest (22.65) and Cale Tebeest (21.88) on the first two legs. They were joined by Preston Nygaard (24.00) and Gavin Reiser (23.40). Cale Tebeest‘s best flat start in the 50 free is 23.08, which sets him up for big swims later in the meet in his individual races in the 100 free and 50 fly. McFarland also won the 200 medley relay in 1:41.67 with the same quartet in a different order. That included a 23.51 fly split from Cale Tebeest.Read the full story on SwimSwam: 15-Year-Old Kam Gardiner Rocks a 3 Second Drop in the 200 Fly to Win at Madison Futures
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