18:52
William Mulgru Shawn Aquatic Club at Harvard has had a strong spring even beating Olympic gold medalist Bobby Frink at a couple of meets continuing his rise. The 19-year-old from all pole mass there in lane three. Luca Miovich from Pleasanton Seahawks in California last year at age 16 became the youngest American man to make a world championship team since Michael Phelps in 2001. He'll be in lane four. Aiden Hammer. lane five. 18year-old repping Longhorn Aquatics. Carson Pick from Kentucky Aquatics. Sixth at the World University Games for the United States last summer in Germany. Another Texas recruit from Tsunami swim team of
Kansas City Ellis Cree and Joshua Brown from Sand Pipers of Nevada, 23-year-old Joshua. He's got world championship open water experience to his credit as well. Miatovic setting all sorts, rowdy, of age group records, including breaking those of Michael Phelps. He continues to be a thrill to watch anytime he hits the pool. And there's one of his future teammates at Texas when Madovich eventually gets there in Aiden Hammer. Yeah, you when you talk about Miatovic and you talk about Michael Phelps in the same sentence, it's pretty good stuff, man. I mean, to be mentioned with the greatest, in my opinion, athlete in history.
That's pretty good company. And this guy's the real deal. There's no doubt about it. This might be a little long for him right now. I think that sweet spot is probably the 4 and 800. great 200, great 1500. He can swim everything from the 200 to the 1500. No doubt about it. But I think when you talk about 2 years from now, I think that 400 is going to be one magical race and he's going to be really, really good in two years. Once he gains a little strength, put some meat on his bones, he's uh he's going to be much stronger in the water. Right now, he's just doing it with just pure guts, instinct. Not a care in the world. Got nothing to prove.
Only swimmer in this field, Jason, to have broken 15 minutes. Did that a couple of months ago, which is also still to this day, believe it or not, a magical barrier. So underway here. Mavic looking to be one of the early pace setters. Above him is Mulgru who Rowdy really continued to do some good things. We saw his progress throughout the spring in a bunch of big time meets here in the US. If you look at the last few splits, 30.4.5 3.3. I mean, he's he's just right there at breaking 15 minutes. I mean, he's going to flip literally at this 1300 mark at 13 minutes. I mean, he's right there. 12596. That's a 30.1 right there with 200 m left to go.
Not a big crowd here tonight, but this deck needs to will him to get under that 15 minutes because he will be much more excited about a 1459 than he would be a 1501. Even though 1501 would be a PB by 4 seconds. His best time ever is 1505. He's feeling it. First night too of the meet. I think it's a lot to say and to have the 1500 on the first night and getting adjusted to the environment, the weather. Go time. And you think about his progress for a guy that finished seventh at the Olympic trials finals two years ago in Indie. Went 15 17 there. And maybe the chance to break 15 minutes for the first time here in the 1500.
Here we go. There's the bell w again. Look at this split right here. 30.6. So he's over 14 minutes. 2. I think he's getting under. I think he knows exactly where he's at. The coaches and the deck are kind of spurring him on right now. I think he knows he's got this chance. He's not going to waste it. I don't think he's going to be under at the 1450. I think he's going to wait until that last 50. Put the legs into it. He still has that great DPS, that great distance for stroke. Let's see this split. This will tell us a little bit.
30.1. So he's got to be 295 on the way home. Well, William Monru done some wonderful things here in 2026. Some big meat wins. Going to grab himself a Toyota National Championship. And can he set a lifetime best in the process? Looks like he'll do that. Can he crack 15 minutes for the first time? Yes. And he will. 15 1458 50 for Mru and the gold to Irvine. Congratulations, William. Shawn Green. Shawn Green holds on for second.
Miatovic ends up in third. Aiden Hammer there in fourth. And Mulgru with a magnificent swim going faster than he ever has here in the 1500. Ah, it's just a that's a great swim. You know, he never panicked whatsoever early on because Miatovich took it to him early on in the race, Jason. And you know, once he kind of got the feel for the water and got into some rhythm, again, very consistent, as far as those splits go, he just maintain that those blinders, so to speak, where you just do nothing but concentrate on the task at hand.
Erica Sullivan talked a little while ago about maintaining that great stroke count, and that's what he did throughout this race. And he gets under. It's still a pretty cool thing, right? I mean, 15 minutes, it's it's not what it once was, but it's still pretty cool to do it for the first time. Our thanks to great Olympic medalist Caitlyn Sandino for stopping by and chatting with us as we watched William Mulgru race his way to the win again through all the time heats. Mo grew the fastest, grabs the national championship and breaks 15
minutes for the first time. William, congratulations. It feels like it's been really kind of a breakthrough 2026 for you. What do you attribute all that success to? Yeah, I mean, I got to give that success to like my teammates back home, Pablo, Andrew, Duke training with me this summer and yeah, just like great Harvard training this summer. You know, William, it's funny because we kept talking about that barrier and how important it is for you to get over that hump to get under 15 minutes, but I think what we got lost in the fact that you went your best time by 7 seconds. That had to mean a lot as well.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, that swim was lovely. I'm just I'm happy with how I was able to execute. I mean, a great heat of guys I was able to race against that really helped me push to break 15. way to go, buddy. Congratulations. Thank you.
