Glacier Swim Club hosts Senior Championships

Swim clubs and top swimmers from across the state attending

In this file photo from last season Glacier Swim Club's Pacific Ricke starts the 200 yard backstroke during the 2025 Savannah Cayce Southeast Age Group Championships April 6, 2025, at the Dimond Park Aquatic Center. This weekend GSC hosts the Alaska Senior State Championships at DPAC.(Klas Stolpe / Juneau Independent)

By Klas Stolpe

Juneau Independent

Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club is hosting the 2026 Alaska Swimming Senior Championships Friday-Sunday at the Dimond Park Aquatic Center.

Swim clubs from across the state will be represented. Each day will feature preliminary events beginning at 9:30 a.m. and the finals of those events beginning at 6 p.m.

Following are daily schedules. Women swim an event first, followed by men. The times listed are for the first swims of the event.

Friday prelims first session features (women first, men second) the 100 Individual medley (9:30 a.m.); 200 freestyle (9:45), 50 backstroke (10:06 a.m.), 200 breaststroke (10:16 a.m.), 100 butterfly (10:29 a.m.), 800 freestyle relay final (10:47 a.m.), women’s 1000 free final-S and men’s 1650 free final-S (11:20 a.m.).

Friday finals, second session. After each set of finals there will be a break for awards of the previous swim. 1000 free (women 6:00) and men’s 1650 free (6:14 p.m.), 100 IM (6:33 p.m.), 200 free (6:45 p.m.), 50 back (6:59 p.m.), 200 breast (7:09 p.m.), 100 fly (7:27 p.m.), 200 Medley Relay (7:38 p.m.), mixed 200 medley relay (7:46 p.m.).

Friday Top event qualifiers (women first, men second - club, name, age, time):

100 IM - GSC, Amy Liddle, 16, 1:00.50 / Aurora Swim Team, Clint Kopp, 18, 54.32; 200 free - Chugiak Aquatics Club, Lelaina Trembath, 16, 1:53.77 / CAC, Blake Fazio, 18, 1:39.44; 50 back - GSC, Valerie Peimann, 17, 26.54 / GSC, Liam Kiessling, 15, 24.39; 200 breast - Trembath 2:26.74 / Baranof Barracuda Swim Club, Zach Martens, 16, 2:15.45; 100 fly - CAC, Reese Woodward, 17, 55.74 / Fazio, 49.49; 800 FR - CAC 7:44.55 / CAC 7:06.26; women’s 1000 free - CAC, Hannah Cooper, 18, 10:56.35; men’s 1650 free - CAC, Nate Shockley, 16, 17:04.00; 200 MR - GSC (Katya Foy 14, Kennedy Miller 16, Liddle, Lily Francis 17) 1:49.62 / GSC (Liam Kiessling 15, Joshua Edwards 16, Levi Phelps 15, Kaden Aldrich 14) 1:42.16; mixed 200 MR - CAC 1:43.82.

Saturday prelims, first session: 100 back (9:30 a.m.), 200 IM (9:45 a.m.), 200 fly (10:06 a.m.), 50 breast (10:15 a.m.), 100 free (10:32 a.m.), women’s 400 medley relay final (10:47 a.m.), men’s 400 MR final (10:58 a.m.), women’s 1650 free final-S (11:17 a.m.), men’s 1000 free final-S (11:32 a.m.).

Saturday finals, second session are women’s 1650 free (6 p.m.), men’s 1000 free (6:25 p.m.), 100 back (6:40 p.m.), 200 IM (6:52 p.m.), 200 fly (7:08 p.m.), 50 breast (7:24 p.m.), 100 free (7:33 p.m.), 200 free relay (7:44 p.m.), mixed 200 free relay 7:56 p.m.).

Saturday top event qualifiers (women first, men second - club, name, age, time):

100 back - Peimann 58.67 / Aquatic Foundation of Alaska YETI, Beck LaBoucane, 16, 52.55; 200 IM - CAC, Anna Brooks, 16, 2:12.60 / Shockley 1:58.12; 200 fly - CAC Woodward 2:06.59 / Fazio 1:53.58; 50 breast - Brooks 31.45 / Midnight Sun Swim Team, Zen Schaetzle, 18, 27.28; 100 free - Trembath 52.92 / Kopp 46.04; 400 FR - CAC 3:54.43 / CAC 3:33.85; women’s 1650 free - Trembath 17:50.73; men’s 1000 free - Shockley 10:12.87; 200 FR - GSC (Peimann, Bailey Fisher 16, Liddle, Francis) 1:40.12 / CAC 1:30.91; mixed 200 FR - CAC 1:32.38.

Sunday prelims first session features 500 free (9:30 a.m.), 50 free (9:55 a.m.), 100 breast (10:08 a.m.), 50 fly (10:19 a.m.), 200 back (10:29 a.m.), 400 IM (10:51 a.m.), 400 free relay finals (11:02 a.m.)

Sunday finals, second session, are 500 free (6 p.m.), 50 free (6:24 p.m.), 100 breast (6:33 p.m.), 50 fly (6:44 p.m.), 200 back (6:53 p.m.), 400 IM (7:10 p.m.).

Sunday top event qualifiers (women first, men second - club, name, age, time):

500 free - Trembath 5:05.50 / Shockley 4:50.02; 50 free - GSC, Lily Francis, 17, 24.05 / Kopp 20.58; 100 breast - Peimann 1:04.85 / Schaetzle 59.42; 50 fly - Woodward 25.52 / Kopp 22.87; 200 back - Peimann 2:04.26 / Kiessling 2:05.97; 400 IM - Liddle 4:39.47 / Fazio 4:11.52; 400 FR - CAC 3:34.52 / CAC 3:11.83.

Any age swimmer (youth age group through masters) that has hit a senior event qualifying time earns passage into the championships and, while there, can swim in other events they have not qualified for. Each athlete may enter up to six bonus events as long as they have at least one qualified time. A swimmer is limited to seven individual swims (no more than three per day) plus relays.

• Contact Klas Stolpe at klas.stolpe@gmail.com.