Emma Reaney lowers American and NCAA 200 breast records with 2:04.06

When Notre Dame’s Emma Reaney broke the NCAA and American records at the ACC Championships, it caught much of the swimming community off guard. When she did it again while winning an NCAA Championship a few weeks later, maybe the crowd was much less surprised, but still equally impressed.

Reaney was dominant in the NCAA final, blasting out to almost a full second lead at the 100 mark, and only accelerated from there. After the ACC Championships, Reaney and her coach Brian Barnes told SwimSwam the key to getting the first American record was going out in under a minute. The key this time appeared to be an even bigger back-half, as Reaney went out a tenth slower (59.35 to 59.25) in the first 100 but came home much faster, going 2:04.06 to break her ACC mark of 2:04.34.

Reaney’s stroke is so efficient. She was constantly pressing forward, and made even the talented field around her look a little choppy by comparison. The junior will spend the summer training at SwimMAC before returning to Notre Dame for one more season. The 200 breast has been a tough race to repeat in as of late, but Reaney has to already have her sights set on the first 2:03 in American history, a barrier she already rattled Saturday night.

Here is a splits comparison of Reaney’s NCAA and ACC American record swims:

  • NCAA: 27.87/ACC: 28.01
  • NCAA: 31.48/ACC: 31.34
  • NCAA: 32.01/ACC: 32.30
  • NCAA: 32.70/ACC: 32.69
  • NCAA: 2:04.06 /ACC: 2:04.34

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bobo gigi
10 years ago

Is there any chance to have some race videos?
I want to watch in particular that 200 breast but also the 200 free and the IM races.
There’s absolutely nothing on youtube so far. 🙁
For international viewers like me who don’t have access to ESPN3, what’s the solution?
I have a monthly subscription for ESPN player to watch college sports on demand in March and April. I suscribe for a few years every time at this period to watch basketball. And I take this opportunity to watch the track and field championships as well. There are also football, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, volleyball and wrestling as other available sports. But unfortunately the NCAA swimming… Read more »

bobo gigi
10 years ago

Congrats!
Impressive swim.
Hopefully Emma Reaney can now translate her talent to long course.

Ed Strack
10 years ago

First ever NCAA title by any Notre Dame swimmer, congrats Emma and Coach Barnes

Mark
10 years ago

Impressive. Congrats to Emma and Coach Barnes.

Alan turner
Reply to  Mark
10 years ago

Great win for the fighting irish

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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