15-year-old Rylee Erisman breaks 1:00 for first time in the 100 FL on Day 3 of Huntsville Futures

2024 USA Swimming Futures Championships – Huntsville

• July 24-27, 2024
• Huntsville Aquatics Center, Huntsville, AL
• GKG (50m)
• Meeting page
• Results on MeetMobile, “2024 USA Swimming Futures Championships”
• Summary day 1
• Day 2 Summary

Day 3 of the Futures Championships in Huntsville kept pace with the first few days and featured lots of great swimming. Laker Swimming 15-year-old Rylee Erisman won the women’s 100 butterfly convincingly on Friday night, with a time of 59.57. The swim was a great performance for the young lady, who started the day with a personal best of 1:02.59 in the event. She was fast, with a time of 27.77 in the first 50m, and then came home in 31.86 to go under 1:00 for the first time in her young career.

The men’s 400-meter freestyle was a great race between two 17-year-olds. Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club’s Ethan Ekk won the race in 3:53.45, while Laker Swimming’s Ryan Erisman reached 2nd place in 3:53.76. Neither swimmer ran a personal best, as Ekk ran his best ever time of 3:53.35 at the Canadian Trials in May, while Erisman ran 3:52.83 in February of this year.

Swimming in Atlanta Katie Christopherson clocked a 2:29.05 en route to winning the women’s 200-meter breaststroke by a huge margin. She was right on her personal best of 2:28.76, which she swam in August 2022. Christopherson will begin her collegiate career at Virginia in the fall.

from Kentucky John Broome won the men’s 200-meter breaststroke in 2:17.17, shaving nearly 3 seconds off his previous best time of 219.83, which he swam last summer. Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training’s Ian Disosway16, was right behind Broome and came in 2nd in 2:17.61. It was a phenomenal swim for Disosway, who broke his personal best of 2:20.63.

Sarasota Sharks’ Michaela Matteswho also swims for Florida, won the women’s 400-meter freestyle in 4:14.71. It was quite a swim for Mattes, who has a personal best of 4:09.53.

The men’s 100-meter butterfly saw Swim Fort Lauderdale’s Thomas Powers-Hammond clocked a 54.46 en route to victory last night. Powers-Hammond, a future Louisville Cardinal, broke his previous best time of 54.88 in the event.

In the women’s 400-meter freestyle relay, the Sarasota Sharks delivered a great performance, seeing Sienna Angove (56.61), Michaela Mattes (57.23), Brynn Lavigueur (56.72), and Maeve Eckerman (56.69) together good for 3:47.25.

The men’s 400-meter freestyle relay went to Huntsville Swim Association in a time of 3:26.69. Lance Jong (52.14), Michael Tretyakov (52.09), Willem Neville (52.09), and Luke Bedsole (50.37) worked together to get the job done.