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AUSTIN – Michael Andrew, the 15-year-old professional swimmer, unleashed his first 15-16 U.S. National Age Group record with a win in the men’s 100-meter breast at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin.
Andrew came home like a freight train with a 32.38 to get in front of Trojan’s Glenn Snyders, 1:01.67 to 1:01.70, for the win. The time pushed him in front of Carsten Vissering’s 15-16 U.S. NAG time of 1:01.94 set in 2013.
That’s Andrew’s first 15-16 long course NAG after obliterating the age group record books as a 10 year old up through 14.
Snyders (1:01.70) and NYAC’s Mike Alexandrov (1:01.77) rounded out the podium with Tennessee’s Brad Craig taking fourth in 1:01.89.
=== A - Final ===
1 Michael Andrew 15 Indie Swimming-M 1:02.18 1:01.67 OLY
29.29 1:01.67 (32.38)
2 Glenn Snyders 27 Trojan Swim Club 1:02.30 1:01.70 OLY
28.49 1:01.70 (33.21)
3 Mike Alexandrov 29 New York Athleti 1:03.07 1:01.77 OLY
29.07 1:01.77 (32.70)
4 Brad Craig 25 Tennessee Aquati 1:02.36 1:01.89 OLY
29.34 1:01.89 (32.55)
5 Andrew Wilson 21 Una Esc-GA 1:03.17 1:02.51 OLY
29.09 1:02.51 (33.42)
6 Anton McKee 21 Univ of Alabama- 1:03.12 1:02.59 OLY
29.58 1:02.59 (33.01)
7 Austin Temple 18 Univ of Texas-ST 1:02.97 1:03.03 OLY
29.50 1:03.03 (33.53)
8 Thiago Parravic 26 Streamline Aquat 1:03.07 1:03.45 OLY
30.16 1:03.45 (33.29)
=== B - Final ===
9 Nick Kostiuk 21 Edmonton Keyano- 1:03.52 1:04.04 JRS
29.60 1:04.04 (34.44)
10 Pavel Romanov 21 Univ of Alabama- 1:04.22 1:04.12 JRS
30.20 1:04.12 (33.92)
11 Jason Block 25 Trojan Swim Club 1:04.55 1:04.30 JRS
30.39 1:04.30 (33.91)
12 Trevor Hoyt 23 Yucaipa Swim Tea 1:05.16 1:04.42 JRS
30.06 1:04.42 (34.36)
13 Mark Conroy 23 Unattached-MV 1:03.73 1:04.51 JRS
29.91 1:04.51 (34.60)
14 Ryder McGinnis 17 Edmonton Keyano- 1:05.51 1:04.56 JRS
30.13 1:04.56 (34.43)
15 Azad Al-Barazi 27 Trojan Swim Club 1:05.14 1:05.00 JRS
29.79 1:05.00 (35.21)
16 Marko Blazevski 22 SwimMAC Carolina 1:05.36 1:05.60 JRS
31.17 1:05.60 (34.43)
Among the “scalps” Andrew took down were former Bulgarian and New Zealand Olympians Alexandrov and Snyders (with the former also an NCAA champ) plus former SEC record-holder/champion Craig.
And here I thought that when he aged up as a 14-year-old to the 15-16 bracket he was history.
Guess I’ll be eating something besides my words for dinner tonight.
Way 2 go “Lil’ Mikey!”
Good holy G**. this kid is nuts. those guys are one trick pony breast strokers and Andrew just, JUST turned 15. and he could beat all those guys in every other stroke. remarkable…
No backend endurance on the 200 though. It looked like to me he struggled to nail 4 good pull outs.