2018 Far Western Long Course Championships
- July 26th-29th, 2018
- Moraga, California
- Results
Swimming on Sunday, the last day of the 2018 Far Western Long Course Championships, Clark Kent Apuada of the Monterey County Aquatic Team swam a 1:09.38 in the 100 meter fly. In the process, he broke Michael Phelps‘ 10 & under meet record in the event of 1:10.48, set back in 1995, by more than a second.
The 10-year old Apuada won all 7 of his races at the weekend’s meet, earning the age group’s high-point award. 6 of his 7 (the 50 fly excluded) were lifetime bests.
Apuada’s Far Westerns results:
- 200 IM – 2:39.69
- 50 fly – 31.99
- 100 fly – 1:09.38
- 50 back – 33.17
- 100 back – 1:13.25
- 50 free – 29.21
- 100 free – 1:04.39
Far Westerns High Point Award Winners:
- 10 & under girls – Alexis Mesina, PLS, 61 points
- 10 & under boys – Clark Apuada, MCAT, 63 points
- 11-12 girls – Summer McIntosh, ESWM, 50 points
- 11-12 boys – Devyn Caples, PLS, 52 points
- 13-14 girls – Audrey J-Cheng, PASA, 47 points
- 13-14 boys – Jackson McDonald, CUDA, 51 points
- 15-16 girls – Claire Suen, PLS, 39 points
- 15-16 boys – Andy Huang, PEAK, 46 points
- 17-18 girls – Linda Liu, HYAC, 39 points
- 17-18 boys – Ryley McRae, KCS, 32 points
Far Westerns Team Scores
Top 20
- Santa Clara Swim Club – 1080.5 points
- Mexico – 942.5
- Pleasanton Seahawks – 813
- Orinda Aquatics – 453
- Terrapins Swim Team – 365.5
- Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics – 351
- Peak Swimming – 280.5
- Etobicoke Swimming – 262
- Quicksilver Swimming – 209
- Livermore Aqua Cowboys Club – 184
- San Ramon Valley Aquatics – 138
- Diablo Aquatics – 137
- Vancouver Pacific Swim Club – 124.5
- Sunnyvale Swim Club – 113
- The Olympic Club – 112
- Dart Swimming – 110
- Hyack Swim Club – 99
- Tri Valley Aquatics – 85
- Front Range Barracudas – 83
- Crow Canyon Country Club Sharks – 81
That is not even the CA State Record? The CA State Record for 100 M Fly is 1.08.55 by Humberto Najera set in 2015.
This news got bigger coverage than Nationals: A 10-year-old named Clark Kent beat a record that Michael Phelps held for 23 years
It’s pretty amazing how Michael Phelps was one of the best age group swimmers ever, and then kept getting better and better
Cue Michael Andrew comparison…
Literally took Superman to bear his record…
Superman does it again!
Lol
Are those Lex Luther’s initials?
yeah… but how about fly backwards… I’d like to see that before I’m impressed
I believe Dean (Gary) Jones Set the 11-12 Boys 200M Fly record this past weekend at TAGS in Austin with a 2:11.07
I suspect once he takes the drug test, they might find evidence of some illegal Kryptonian gene doping, however. It would definitely explain why he’s good at ‘fly, and his aversion to certain green minerals.
Awesome name. Meet record? What was Phelps doing at the Far Western championships as a 10-year-old? Did he live out there before moving to Baltimore?
Not sure.
I recall the Far Western Championships being a pretty prestigious event in the 80s/90s…and it seemed to bring more of a crowd of young high performing age-group swimmers. Can’t speak to his exact circumstances, but perhaps the Phelps family just wanted to travel and swim at the same time?
Michael came out to Far Westerns at Santa Clara in the mid 90s along with his sisters Whitney and Hilary and some other NBAC swimmers. It almost seemed like it was planned as practice for future Santa Clara International meets that he would participate in. For decades the International meet was the biggest meet of most summers. Australians, Canadians, Japanese, Mexican, Brazilian, European teams would attend, and many world records were broken at SCI meets. Crazy foresight by his coaches to bring him out to get comfortable with the venue at that young age. He eventually completed 100+ races in that pool over his career, so I’m sure the familiarity he gained as a kid helped at least a little.… Read more »
thanks for sharing
This is a cool flashback! Thank you! I love that pool…. A lot of good memories there myself…..
Great comment Peter…and you’ve got to get that video digitised and put on YouTube !