Langston Lindsey is pushing full force ahead.

While many high school swimmers taper their volume of laps in the pool heading into the state meet, the Az College Prep swimmer prefers to keep his workload high with the bigger picture in mind.

A few weeks after the Arizona state swimming championships, the junior national circuit events becomes the focus.

“I don’t taper for the state meet because I want to keep preparing for juniors,” he said. “The workload and two events correlate with each other and my schedule.”

Lindsey, owner of eight total school records, and the rest of the state qualifiers are preparing the state meet this week.

The swimming event takes place Friday and Saturday at Skyline for Division I and Division II. Phoenix Country Day (PCD) hosts swimming and diving on Friday and Saturday for Division III.

Diving for DI is Wednesday at PCD with DII diving on Thursday also at PCD.

The boys defending champions are Brophy (Division I), Catalina Foothills (Division II) and Tanque Verde (Division III).

Lindsey looks to close out his career by adding some more state titles on his resumes as he is the two-time state champion in the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke.

He comes into the meet with the best times in DI in both events as he clocked a 20.01 second 50 free and a :49.52 in the 100 fly.

As much as he likes to win and compete, he prefers to be pushed and prefers a competitor close to him in a lane nearby rather than blowing away the field.

“I like when someone is right there with me,” he said. “It goes along with loving to compete and wanting to be the best. If someone is right there, it pushes me dig deeper.”

Other competitors who come in with the best time in more one than event are Millennium’s Ewan Cain (100 breast, 100 back, DI), Pinnacle’s Brady Holubar (100 free, 200 free, DI), Canyon del Oro’s Luke Weibel (50 free, 100 free, 100 back, 200 IM, DII), ALA Gilbert North’s Zachary Warren (50 free, 100 fly, DIII), Tanque Verde’s Wade Olsson (100 breast, 200 IM, DIII) and Chandler Prep’s James Thomas (100 free, 200 free, DIII),

Winning a state title is something that takes talent and time, but before it can happen there has to be a mental decision to do whatever it takes to be a state champion.

Once Lindsey won a state title around 9 years old, he knew he wanted to stand on the top stop of the podium every time out.

He has another chance to do just that this week.

“One I started getting better, and I just wanted to strive for more and race against my peers,” Lindsey said. “I want to be the best of the best.”

Next year he will have to see where he fits in at the college level as he recently decommitted from Tennessee and chose USC to continue his career.

“I feel like I rushed to a decision when I picked Tennessee,” he said. “I felt like I had to find a school really early, but now I realize I needed to find a spot where I feel like it sets me up for what I wanted to do with the rest of my career, and what the rest of my life will look like.”

TOP TIMES

Boys

Division I

50 free individual: Langston Lindsey, Arizona College Prep, :20:01.

100 fly: Langston Lindsey, Arizona College Prep, :49:52.

100 breaststroke: Ewan Cain, Millennium, :55:74.

100 free individual: Brady Holubar, Pinnacle, :45.49.

100 backstroke individual: Ewan Cain, Millennium, :50.70.

200 free individual: Brady Holubar, Pinnacle, 1:39.55.

200 medley individual: Ewan Cain, Millennium, 1:53.42.

200 medley relay: Brophy 1;35.90.

200 free relay: Brophy 1:27.14.

400 free relay: Arizona College Prep 3:14.49.

500 free individual: Declan Maceachran, Dobson, 4:34.68.

Division II

50 free individual: Luke Weibel, Canyon del Oro, :21:50.

100 fly: Nathanael Schwarz, Mica Mountain, :52.56

100 breaststroke: Andrel Stozkovs, McClintock, :59.31.

100 free individual: Luke Weibel, Canyon del Oro, :46.38.

100 backstroke individual: Luke Weibel, Canyon del Oro, :52.73.

200 free individual: Nicholas Gaspers, Salpointe Catholic, 1:43.44.

200 medley individual: Luke Weibel, Canyon del Oro, 1:54.86.

200 medley relay: Desert Mountain 1:38.75.

200 free relay: Catalina Foothills 1:28.81.

400 free relay: Canyon del Oro 3:14.42.

500 free individual: George Tanaka, Desert Mountain, 4:41.13.

Division III

50 free individual: Zachary Warren, ALA Gilbert North, :21.15.

100 fly: Zachary Warren, ALA Gilbert North, :49.77.

100 breaststroke: Wade Olsson, Tanque Verde, :58.11.

100 free individual: James Thomas, Chandler Prep, :46.56.

100 backstroke individual: Christian Beltran, ALA Gilbert, :54.17.

200 free individual: James Thomas, Chandler Prep, 1:45.47.

200 medley individual: Wade Olsson, Tanque Verde, 1:54.90.

200 medley relay: Chandler Prep 1:43.12.

200 free relay: Chandler Prep 1:31.32.

400 free relay: Chandler Prep 3:19.90.

500 free individual: Peter Hendricks, Chandler Prep. 4:51.73.