Moment: Craig Caps Career with Records
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
April 6, 2020
After a season away, Cameron Craig returned to the Monroe High School swimming & diving team for his 2015-16 senior year – and ended his prep career with a performance that all expected from one of the nation’s top high school swimmers.
Craig set an all-MHSAA Finals record in winning the Lower Peninsula Division 1 200-yard individual medley in 1:45.42, then set another all-Finals best winning the backstroke in 47.33 on March 12, 2016. Both records still stand.
“This is my senior year and I just wanted to come and see everyone that I competed against as a freshman and a sophomore,” Craig said that day. “This is really a good way to end the year.”
Craig began his college career at Arizona State and currently swims at Ohio State.
Click to check out Second Half coverage of those 2016 LPD1 Finals – Rice 3-Peats at Meet Loaded with Stars – and see below for replays of Craig’s races with coverage from the NFHS Network.
Flashback 100: Youngquist's Times Still Among MHSAA's Fastest
March 28, 2025
As a freshman on the 2008 Battle Creek Lakeview boys swimming & diving team, Clay Youngquist made an immediate impact at his first Finals, finishing second in the 500-yard freestyle and fifth in the 200-yard freestyle – key performances that helped Lakeview secure the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 2 team championship.
By his junior and senior years, Youngquist wasn’t just competing in those events – he was dominating them. He set blistering times that remain untouched to this day. His 500-yard freestyle time of 4:20.71 as a junior and his 1:34.28 in the 200-yard freestyle as a senior still stand as MHSAA all-Class/Division Finals records.
The Division 2 record books are filled with Youngquist’s name. He holds the fastest times in the 50-yard freestyle (20.09), 100-yard butterfly (47.51) and 100-yard freestyle (43.73).
Following his standout high school career, Youngquist continued to shine at the University of Texas. There, he became a two-time NCAA champion, earned 11 All-America honors, captured eight Big 12 titles, and was selected for the 2014-15 USA Swimming national team.
Internationally, he claimed three gold medals at the 2010 Junior Pan Pacific Championships – in the 200-meter freestyle, the 400-meter freestyle relay, and the 400-meter medley relay – and added two golds and a silver at the 2015 World University Games.
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