PHOENIX, Arizona, August 6. DURING the past week-and-a-half with the swimming community focused on the 2012 London Olympics, quite a few U.S. National Age Group records took a tumble.
Boys 10-and-under 200-meter freestyle relay
During the Metropolitan Swimming Junior Olympics Long Course Championships, held in East Meadow, N.Y. (July 27-29), the foursome of Nick Torres (30.66), Brendan Lee (31.33), Yugo Tsukikawa (30.76) and Ryan Maierle (29.27) combined for a time of 2:02.52 in the boys 10-and-under 200 free relay to take down the U.S. National Age Group record in the event. That swim eclipsed the 2:02.73 set by Arden Hills' Jeremy Szymanowski, Jason Kawakami, Jeffrey Piland and Kent Johnson way back in 1984.
Event 58 Boys 10 & Under 200 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
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METRO: M 2:02.52 7/28/2012 Westchester Aquatic Club, WEST -MR
N Torres, B Lee, Y Tsukikawa, R Maierle
LC JO's: # 2:02.52 7/28/2012 Westchester Aquatic Club, WEST -MR
N Torres, B Lee, Y Tsukikawa, R Maierle
Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Westchester Aquatic Club-MR 'A' 2:04.21 2:02.52M 40
1) Torres, Nick 10 2) Lee, Brendan T 10
3) Tsukikawa, Yugo 10 4) Maierle, Ryan A 10
30.66 1:01.99 (31.33) 1:32.75 (30.76) 2:02.52 (29.77)
Scottsdale's Hunter Ruck, Nicholas Salvino, Daniel Simmons and Matthew LeBlanc then clipped Westchester's record at the 2012 Far Western Long Course Championships broadcast live on SwimmingWorld.TV. The foursome posted a time of 2:02.37.
===================================================================================== EVENT 100 MENS 10&UN 200 F. R. EVENT 100
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SAC, A 10&UN 10 AZ SCOTTSDALE AQ 2:02.37 1 29.47 1:00.26 1:31.19
RUCK, HUNTER 10
SALVINO, NICHOLAS 10
SIMMONS, DANIEL 10
LEBLANC, MATTHEW 10
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Girls 13-14 200-meter medley relay
At the Minnesota LSC State Long Course Championships (July 26-29) held at the Minnesota Aquatic Center, the Aquajets took down their own NAG record in the girls 13-14 200-meter medley relay. Zoe Avestruz (29.85), Madison Preiss (33.21), Bre Thorne (28.57) and Rachel Wittmer (26.71) posted a time of 1:58.34. That swim crushed the team's previous record of 2:00.13 set last year by Heidi Katter, Olivia Anderson, Thorne and Courtney Evensen.
Girls 13-14 200 LC Meter Medley Relay
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MN LC: 2:01.74 2010 Aquajets Swim Club
Katter, Anderson, Coolidge, C. Evensen
Team Seed Finals
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1 AQUAJETS SWIM TEAM-MN 'A' 2:05.26 1:58.34
1) Avestruz, Zoe 14 2) Preiss, Madison 14
3) Thorne, Bre 14 4) Wittmer, Rachel 13
29.85 33.21 28.57 26.71
Girls 11-12 100-meter fly; 200-meter fly
At the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Buffalo, CUBU's Cassidy Bayer, 12, lowered her records in the girls 11-12 butterfly events yet again. Bayer already broke Olympic gold medalist Dana Vollmer's 100 fly record of 1:02.49 with a 1:02.31. In Buffalo, she became the first person in her age division to break 1:02 with a stunning time of 1:01.75. She also demolished her NAG record in the 200 fly with a blistering time of 2:15.02. She first set the NAG with a 2:18.61 in June, before dropping it even further in July with a 2:17.65. The meet in Buffalo marked an incredible three-and-a-half second drop in just two months with her 2:15.02 as of Aug. 2012.
Event 11 Women 100 LC Meter Butterfly
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Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points
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=== A – Final ===
1 Bayer, Cassidy 12 CUBU Swim-PV 1:03.39 1:01.75 20
29.07 1:01.75 (32.68)
Event 17 Women 200 LC Meter Butterfly
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2:17.89 NAT 2012 Winter National
2:19.59 JNAT 2012 Winter JR Nat
Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points
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=== A – Final ===
1 Bayer, Cassidy 12 CUBU Swim-PV 2:19.65 2:15.02 NAT 20
30.83 1:05.30 (34.47)
1:40.46 (35.16) 2:15.02 (34.56)
Boys 10-and-under 100-meter breast
KING's Ethan Dang, 10, charted a time of 1:18.71 at the PNS Long Course Championships held July 26-29 in Federal Way. That swim bested the boys 10-and-under NAG in the 100-meter breaststroke, lowering the 1:18.80 clocked by Matthew Limbacher last year.
Event 64 Boys 10 & Under 100 LC Meter Breaststroke
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PNS CHAMPS: 1:28.36 7/30/2011 Garrett Waite, BISC
Name Age Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Dang, Ethan V 10 KING-PN 1:19.31 1:18.71 20
Girls 11-12 50-meter breaststroke
Olivia Calegan, 12, undercut the girls 11-12 50-meter breaststroke NAG record with a 33.05 in the finale at the Central Zone 14-and-Under Long Course Championships held in Columbus, Ind., this past weekend. That swim bettered the previous record of 33.33 set by Olivia Anderson in 2009.
Event 87 Girls 11-12 50 LC Meter Breaststroke
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Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points
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=== A – Final ===
1 Calegan, Olivia 12 MW-MW 33.95 33.05 20
