The Aurora area’s pool presence was nothing to be scoffed at this season, as local programs were in thick of the individual and team races at the Class 5A state meet at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center.

For a third consecutive season, Regis Jesuit finished as the 5A state runner-up with help from a significant group of that that appears heavily on the 2026 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Boys Swim Team, which is based primarily on performance at the state meet.

Swimmers for coach Nick Frasersmith’s Raiders, who combined to win four individual events, combine with top-end performers from Cherokee Trail, Grandview and Smoky Hill to form a powerhouse squad.

For the second straight season, an Aurora area swimmer dominated the distance freestyle events at the state meet, as Regis Jesuit sophomore Treyvn Krauss matched the feat of Grandview’s Gherman Prudnikau from 2025 with victories in both the 200 and 500 yard freestyle events.

A month before the state meet, Krauss set the Cherry Creek pool and John Strain Invitational record of 4 minutes, 34.01 seconds, in the 500 freestyle — an impressive accomplishment in itself — but he dropped a whopping 7-plus seconds between then and the state meet with a victory in 4:26.98.

Krauss also made a significant time drop in the 200 freestyle, which he also won at the Strain Invitational in 1:42.11. That was the precursor to the 1:37.72 that earned him the state championship and stood up as the top time in the state regardless of classification. Both of Krauss’ times earned him Automatic All-American status.

Krauss’ winning ways didn’t end until the final event of the meet, when he combined with senior Nolan Kohl, junior Nathaniel Spencer and fellow sophomore Spencer Greene to claim the 400 yard freestyle relay. The Raiders were the second seed in the event coming into the state meet with a time of 3:09.20, but obliterated that with a 3:01.60 in the finals as the only team to surpass the Automatic All-American standard of 3:05.14.

Regis Jesuit swept All-Aurora honors in the relays.

The 200 yard medley team of seniors Davis Brown and Nolan Kohl plus sophomores Greene and Patrick Serafin swam a time of 1:30.87 in the finals that gave the Raiders the edge over Grandview (1:33.93) for local bragging rights and put them at the wall less than a second behind winner Cherry Creek. The 200 freestyle relay came into the state meet seeded 11th, but moved up enough to qualify for the championship finals. The team of Brown, Krauss, Serafin and freshman Landon Brooks clocked a 1:26.09 to place ninth.

Regis Jesuit’s other state champion was Greene, who won his title in the 100 yard butterfly. Already the top seed coming into the meet, Greene had the top time in the prelims and finished off his season with an Automatic All-American time of 46.99 seconds that gave him plenty of breathing room over Columbine’s Joey Sudermann.

Greene also claimed the All-Aurora spot in the 50 freestyle with a third-place state finish in a time of 20.71 that stood as All-American Consideration.

The other sprint freestyle position on the All-Aurora team went to Greene’s Regis Jesuit teammate Nolan Kohl, a Saint Louis University signee who placed third in the state in the 100 freestyle. Kohl finished in the same spot as he was seeded going into the meet, but his finals time of 45.16 was an improvement on his previous best of 45.75.

Cherokee Trail (senior Tyson Walker), Smoky Hill (sophomore Cooper Walkup) and Grandview (juniors Greyson Connett and Hunter Bull) are all represented on the All-Aurora first team as well.

Walker and Walkup actually share one of the spots as they recorded an identical time of 1:50.25 seconds — both well behind Columbine’s Joey Sudermann — to tie for runner-up honors in the 200 yard individual medley. Walkup had the edge in prelims with a 1:50.65 to Walker’s 1:50.99, while they both posted season-best times in the final.

Walker, a University of Tampa recruit, had a quest to become the Cherokee Trail boys program’s first-ever state champion, but instead had two second place results, as he was also the runner-up in the 100 breaststroke. His time of 56.41 seconds — which was just 0.01 of a second off the All-American Consideration mark — put him only behind Cherry Creek’s Kian Lihalaka, who took the state title in 55.87 seconds.

Grandview had the 5A state champion in the past three seasons in the 100 backstroke in Oliver Schimberg (now at the University of Minnesota) and had a serious contender to continue the streak in Connett, who transferred over from Regis Jesuit.

Fifth last season in the championship final won by Schimberg, Connett managed to edge former teammate Nolan Kohl for second place, but his time of 49.27 seconds put him behind state champion Josh Heydt of Valor Christian, who swam 48.33.

The recent scarcity of divers in Aurora area programs continued with only one — Bull — a regular competitor throughout the season. He easily qualified for the state meet for a third consecutive season and blew well past his previous best finish of 14th when he took sixth.

Bull achieved that spot with a score of 478.60 points, which left him shy of his season’s-best total of 494.95 from the April 4 Arapahoe Invitational.

Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at [email protected]. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports

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