Ryan Murphy, of the Bolles School Sharks, broke the high school national record in the 100 backstroke at the Florida State High School Championships.
Murphy touched the wall in 45.34! And that was only his prelim swim! Among the high school ranks, David Nolan (now at Stanford), clocked 45.49 back in 2011 for Hershey High School in Pennslyvania.
Murphy is headed to Cal (UC Berkeley) next year to swim for Coach David Durden.
“I believe that the coaches and athletes at Cal will provide me with the most competitive training environment,” Murphy explained. “The coaches are amazing and the team shares my goals of being an Olympian”
Murphy, best known for his exploits as a backstroker, holds of 9 out of a possible 18 National Age Group Records (NAGR) in backstroke (and he only recently turned 17. Murphy’s going to swim faster and lower the 17-18 100 back NAGR a few times.
Last summer, Murphy wowed the crowd in Omaha by finishing 4th at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 200 backstroker, cracking another one of Aaron Peirsol’s all-time bests.
Among the talent emerging after the 2012 London Olympic Games, Murphy and Jack Conger appear to have the most heat. Looking ahead to the 2013 FINA World Championship in Barcelona, expect them to step up and shine.
Other standout “prelim swims” at the Florida State High School Championship:
Santo Condorelli was a 19.8 in the 50 free.
Santo Condorelli was a 43.4 in the 100 free.
Joseph Schooling was a 47.3 in the 100 fly.
Any way to get video??
The prelims and the finals are live and archived on fhsaa network.
Actually, I don’t find the prelims archived on this site. We’ll see.
http://sergiolopezmiro.com/ the vids of murphy’s swim and condorelli’s 100 are on there
Here is a link to Sergio’s blog and he has the videos on it: http://sergiolopezmiro.com/
Thank you Mel Stewart for the news! Incredible time for Ryan Murphy! But why doesn’t he wait for the finals to swim so fast? It will be tough to swim faster this evening. Perhaps he wanted to break that record in prelims because in finals he will have a relay before. Or he was just in control and he will swim 44.5 in final. We’ll see. This guy will dominate backstroke in the world like Aaron Peirsol has made it before. Under 53 next year in long course? Not impossible. Now Jack Conger has to respond to that.
Great swimming evening for me. I’ve made some researches and the finals of these Florida high school state championships are live on fhsaa network at 5.30 PM EST for you. Then it’s swimming in Minneapolis. It’s cool.
their interview says they went for records in individual events in prelims and will try for relay records during finals.
Ok, thank you for the news. I’m not surprised by that.
Also 47.38 for Joseph Schooling in the 100 fly, 19.88 for Santo Condorelli in the 50 free and 43.47 for Santo Condorelli (new Florida state record) in the 100 free at the start of the relay. It’s fast.
Where is Schooling going to college? Condorelli is going to USC, right? USC is starting to get scary good … for a Cal Bear fan, that is. They swam some solid times yesterday against AZ.
Schooling is a Junior
Schooling just went 46.50 in finals for the 100 fly…
Yes USC
19.88 and 43.47 were Florida state records for Santo Condorelli. But they aren’t anymore. In the finals Ryan Murphy has erased them with a 19.54 and a 42.94 at the start of the freestyle relays.
Cal Bear fan.
Justin….. Yes, USC Men and Women are racking up great early times, but I think Arizona learned things last year when they throttled Cal with remarkable early times while Cal just went along methodically in building up their times. Results?: Cal beat Arizona in the PAC12 Championships and, of course, Cal won the NCAA National Championships with Arizona down the line.
So maybe Arizona is doing something different this year early on. USC can only improve so much on their current great times while I expect perhaps Arizona and most definitely Cal to improve by leaps and bound come the Spring Championships.
21.0 back split by Murphy- ridiculous
wow 2:54 for Bolles 400 free relay.
Is Ryan Murphy incredibly good on his underwaters or are his opponents incredibly awful on their underwaters? Amazing race alone in the pool. Congrats to him.
I think Braden Keith the machine prepares us a big recap of these championships with the videos. There have been many records. He has a big work to do.
And Michael Andrew, only 13, has swum 20.94 in the Final-C of the 50 free in Minneapolis. It’s amazing.
Little bit of both. His underwaters are really good. But the people he’s racing are just high school swimmers. I wouldn’t say they have awful underwaters but not elite athlete material
The future of Us swimming has no worries to have . These young guys ( talents ) are allready doing great ! wowwww , Michael Phelps retires and on the other hand , so many great swimmers make more breakthroughs . Fantastic
Well, this is the problem with Arizona swimming University of Arizona which is in Pima under million people has the program while Maricopia has Asu and Maricopia is the fifth largest county in the us at 3.5 million or so. In California terms Maricopia is bigger than San Diego and Orange.