Ally Howe, a senior at Sacred Heart Prep, has broken the National Independent High School Record in the 100 yard backstroke once again. During prelims of California’s Central Coast Section Championships, Howe swam a 51.84, which broke the National Independent High School Record held by the defending World and Olympic Champion Missy Franklin. Today during finals, she lowered her record to 51.54 during the finals of the CIF Central Coast Section Championships.
She just missed the overall National High School Record held by Olivia Smoliga at 51.43 from 2012.
The Stanford commit also won the girls 200 IM with a 1:57.75.
Great swim indeed!!! 🙂
How good is Stanford going to be? A 400 Medley relay of incoming freshman (Ally Howe, Heidi Poppe, Janet Hu, Simone Manual) have a cumulative best time of 3:30.22. That would have been 4th at NCAA’s this year. And that doesn’t include any relay starts. And they are all high school times.
And Engel doesn’t even get on that relay. Scary.
Haha!
Heidi Poppe broke the minute barrier in the 100 breast.
Ally Howe is on fire on backstroke.
I think Stanford coach Gregg Mehan is feeling very good this weekend. 🙂
Talking about Greg Meehan, I’ve found a little video in which he talks about each of his future recruits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XT1oqMpww
They can update some PBs. 🙂
But will they be able to produce the same times or better next year… that is the question that is yet to be answered…
Also of note, five individual sectional records were set (2 by Howe as mentioned above) 2 by Curtis Ogren and 1 by Andrew Liang along with two National Independent High School records (Howe’s mentioned above) and Curtis Ogren breaking his own 200 IM record 1:44.90
Go to sleep, Tony Batis
Ally!!!! You are so amazing! Poppe family
Super Amazing Ally!! Poppe family