Below is a full breakdown of July's top times by event, followed by a look at the age-group standouts putting the swimming world on notice for the season ahead.

Toyota Nationals Sets the Tone

With Nationals landing in the final days of July, it's no surprise that the meet supplied nearly every top time on this list. A few swimmers stood out as the stars of the week:

• Liberty Clark (Indiana Swim Club) was the most versatile sprinter in the pool, taking the top spot in the women's 50 free and finishing 1-2 in the 100 free behind only Rylee Erisman.
• Rylee Erisman (Windermere Lakers) matched Clark stride for stride, topping the 100 and 200 free.
• Audrey Derivaux (Jersey Wahoos) had one of the meet's best all-around showings, ranking at or near the top in the 100/200 fly, 200 IM, and 200 back.
• Luka Mijatovic (Pleasanton Sea Hawks) was the story of the men's distance events, sweeping the top times in the 200, 400, and 1500/1650 free.
• Rowan Cox (Texas Longhorns) and John Thumann (Cal) traded blows across the men's fly and free sprints.

Week at a Glance

• Liberty Clark and Rylee Erisman both cracked 53 seconds in the 100 free, with Clark's 52.97 and Erisman's 52.92 separated by five-hundredths.
• Luka Mijatovic's distance sweep included a 3:43.45 in the 400 free and a 7:46.57 in the 800/1000 free — both among the month's highest power-points swims regardless of age.
• On the girls' side, Charlotte Crush (Lakeside) went 1-2 in the 100 back and 200 back at Nationals, establishing herself as the meet's top backstroker.
• Wilson York (Lakeside) put together the strongest breaststroke showing of the month, sweeping the top two spots in the 200 breast and ranking second in the 100 breast.
• Several younger swimmers posted July's most impressive power points swims well outside the National meet — see the Young Stars section below.

Girls' Events

50 Free

Liberty Clark's 24.28 was the fastest women's 50 free in the country this month by a comfortable margin, and she backed it up with a second swim inside 24.6 at the same meet.

100 Free

Erisman and Clark essentially split the month's headline sprint, with just five one-hundredths separating their best swims. Both also had multiple swims inside 54 seconds, underscoring just how deep this event has gotten nationally.

200 Free

Erisman's 1:55.86 edged Mintenko's 1:55.87 by a single hundredth — as tight a top-two finish as you'll see in a monthly leaderboard.

400/500 Free

800/1000 Free

1500/1650 Free

Worth flagging: while Zayda Miehl posted the fastest raw time, both Autumn McIntosh (14) and Harper Rauch (13) actually scored higher on power points — a good reminder that raw time and age-adjusted scoring don't always point to the same swimmer, especially in this event.

100 Back

200 Back

Erisman and Crush split the top two spots in both backstroke events, setting up an intriguing rivalry heading into the fall.

100 Breast

200 Breast

Kaidy Stout's back-to-back 2:28.5s stand out as an exact tie on power points (952) despite the two swims coming a third of a second apart — a nice reminder of how the scoring curve flattens near the top of a heat.

100 Fly

200 Fly

Audrey Derivaux was the fly standout of the month, topping both distances and pairing it with strong showings in the 200 IM and 200 back — arguably the most complete meet of any girl at Nationals.

200 IM

Note: Sadie Buckley's club listing came through as "Nation's Capital Swim Club, Bu" in the source data — omitting the club link here pending confirmation of the full team name.

Fourteen-year-old Lauren Lonsdale (Davis Aquadarts) is worth a second look — her 2:12.26 ranked third by time but actually led the field on power points, a sign of just how age-adjusted scoring can reshuffle a leaderboard.

400 IM

An exact tie between Clarke and Buckley at 4:42.03, both scoring 958 power points — a clean dead heat worth noting.

Boys' Events

50 Free

100 Free

An exact time tie at 49.19 between Mijatovic and Ragland, and another three-way tie at 49.53 between Tennison, Ragland, and Rice — a genuinely crowded sprint field this month.

200 Free

400/500 Free

800/1000 Free

Fifteen-year-old Joey Eaddy ranked fifth by time but posted the highest power points total in the field (1017) — one of the clearer examples this month of age-adjusted scoring rewarding a younger swimmer.

1500/1650 Free

Luka Mijatovic's distance sweep — 200, 400, 800/1000, and 1500/1650 free all topped by time — was the single most dominant individual performance of the month across either sex.

100 Back

That's not a typo — 14-year-old Elliot Leasure ranked fifth by raw time but posted a 1136 power points score, the single highest number in this entire dataset. More on him below.

200 Back

100 Breast

Wilson York ranked fifth by time but led the field on power points at 1070 — the age-adjusted scoring clearly favors his 16-year-old swim over the older field around him.

200 Breast

Wilson York's breaststroke double — top time and top power points in both the 100 and 200 — was the most complete individual stroke sweep of the month.

100 Fly

200 Fly

Rowan Cox was the most dominant men's flyer of the month across both distances, but Ewan Dalrymple's 200 fly edged him out for the top time.

200 IM

400 IM

Sixteen-year-old Syunta Lee's 4:17.97 ranked fifth by time but posted the second-highest power points score in the field, just behind Yi Zheng's winning swim.

Young Stars to Watch

While Nationals produced the fastest raw times of the month, the highest power points swims of July came almost entirely from swimmers well under 18 — many of them competing at LSC and Zone championship meets rather than the national stage. A few names worth filing away:

• Elliot Leasure, 14 (Rochester Swim Club) — his 55.26 in the 100 back scored 1136 power points, the single highest mark anywhere in this month's data, and he backed it up with a 2:01.23 in the 200 back that also topped 1000.
• Ayden Tan, 13 (San Ramon Valley Aquatics) — a 2:06.64 in the 200 IM scored 1133 power points, and he also cracked the boys' 100 back, 100 fly, and 100 free lists.
• Iris Liu, 9 (Pleasanton Seahawks) — her 37.49 in the 50 breast scored 1112 power points, tops among all girls this month, and she also ranked at the top of the girls' 100 breast list by power points.
• Robert Legg, 10 (Pleasanton Seahawks) — a 4:30.32 in the 400/500 free scored 1125 power points.
• Jett Hatchard, 13 (Olympus Aquatics) — went 58.04/58.18/58.56 across three 100 back swims, each scoring above 1100 power points, and also ranked near the top of the 200 back.
• Nicolas Lahre, 11 (BGC-N. Westchester Marlins), and Gabriel Brown, 10 (Fishers Area Swimming Tigers), both turned in multiple 1000+ power points swims in the 200 back, 200 IM, and 200 free — two more names to watch in the 10-and-under and 11-12 ranks.

None of these swimmers show up at the top of the raw-time leaderboards above — they're competing in different age groups against different fields. But on power points, which adjusts for age and gives a clearer read on how a swim compares across the board, July belonged to them as much as it did to the Nationals headliners.

Month at a Glance

• Meet of the month: The 2026 Toyota National Championships (July 28) produced the majority of July's fastest times across nearly every event.
• Most dominant individual sweep: Luka Mijatovic (Pleasanton Sea Hawks), who topped the boys' 200, 400/500, 800/1000, and 1500/1650 free.
• Tightest sprint race: The boys' 100 free, where three different swimmers tied at 49.53 and the top four were separated by just five hundredths.
• Highest power points swim overall: Elliot Leasure's 1136 in the 100 back — a mark that outscored every swim at Nationals, regardless of age.
• Rising storyline: A deep group of 9-to-14-year-olds — Iris Liu, Ayden Tan, Jett Hatchard, Robert Legg, Nicolas Lahre, and Gabriel Brown among them — posted power points totals that rival the national-meet leaderboard, a good sign for the depth of the age-group pipeline heading into next season.

Standards and rankings reflect USA Swimming Power Points as calculated from July 2026 LCM competition results. One top-time swim per swimmer is shown per event category; multi-event performances are noted narratively. Club or LSC links are omitted where source data was incomplete.