The 10&Under girls of the Chicago Wolfpack smashed the state’s 400 yard freestyle relay record, taking 15 seconds off the old mark.
The team was made up of Maya Arroyo, Jada Lathrop, Amelia Mariano and Gabby Veliz and went 3:57.57. They become the first team in Illinois state history in the age group to crack four minutes. USA Swimming doesn’t hold official NAG records for 10 & Unders in the 400 yard relays, but the swim is among the fastest ever recorded in the age group. The only relay listed ahead of the Wolfpack on USA Swimming’s database is a 2013 team from Auburn Aquatics that went 3:53.31.
The old Illinois state record was 4:13.25. The Wolfpack broke the record at the CWAC Candy Cane Challenge on Saturday, December 17.
Arroyo went 56.90 leading off, Lathrop split 1:01.61, Mariano 1:01.00 and Veliz was 58.06 for the Wolfpack. The team trains out of the University of Illinois – Chicago in downtown Chicago. All four girls will still be 10 for another month, and the team’s coach says the foursome will likely swim a 200 free relay at a meet early next month in search of another record-breaking swim.
Absolute Awesomeness girls!! Fantastic time and result, all your hard work has paid off. Keep enjoying your swimming, I will be keeping my eye out on posts from the land down under, Australia. You beauty!
AWESOME. I KNOW YOU ARE BUSTING OUT OF YOUR SHIRT WITH PRIDE. TELL JADA AND HER TEAM MATES “WELL DONE”!
The coach in the pic is legendary Kyle Bubolz. Good swimmer.. better coach.
Why always being negative or polemic?
We don’t talk about the magical suits of 2008/2009 here. These suits are legal. I can understand the arguments against the competition suits before a certain age to not be obsessed with the records and the times overall. But as long as it’s legal I don’t see the problem.
Let these kids have fun and enjoy their great accomplishment.
There isn’t a swim meet where kids of all ages aren’t wearing tech suits. Time to get with the times.
However if there was a vote to ban all of them I’d be for it! It gets brought up at our league meetings and is quickly shot down. USA Swimming would have to lead the charge on that one. Not fair to have all these rankings and have some leagues allow the suits and some not.
How about a 56.9 lead off split for a 10 year old girl though, that’s impressive!
10 year olds in tech suits. Smh.
Agreed
WHO CARES!
I don’t think the Speedo suits run small enough to really do much for kids that young. As a college swimmer I wore nearly the smallest size Speedo made (22 in the more expensive ones, although I think they go to 18 in some of them) and I am nowhere near the size of a 10 year old.
They make a youth tech suit now.
Tech suits are here to stay and younger swimmers will be using them as long as they are legal. While tech suits are now widely used by age groupers; I believe that overtraining of young athletes is becoming far less common. I would much rather have tech suits than over training. You could of course avoid both; but I guess my point is that there are negatives Timberlake fond across generations. Nothing bad is going to happen solely because of young kids wearing a fancy suit!