Ethan Young Breaks Murphy’s NAG Record in Georgia

Add another National Age Group Record to the tally for what has been an unbelievable weekend of junior swimming in the United States, as 14-year old Ethan Young of the Carpet Capital Aquatics Club broke Ryan Murphy’s 13-14 200 yard backstroke National Record on Sunday at the Georgia Senior State Championships.

Young swam a 1:46.56, bettering the 1:46.67 that Murphy swam in 2009 at Winter Juniors.

Young took his race out very quick as compared to Murphy’s old record. What was so surprising about this swim is how much of a time drop it was. Coming into the weekend, his best time in the race was a 1:51.0; then in Knoxville on Saturday at Junior Nationals, he was a 1:52.29.

Then, suddenly, after traveling back to Georgia in time for morning prelims, almost 6 seconds came off and he had a record. He finished 2nd to Gunnar Bentz (1:46.05). How that time came off so quickly is a big mystery, though perhaps the 1:52 on Saturday was motivation to come back to Georgia and swim the meet on Sunday at all. His coach, Charles Todd, made some impressive adjustments overnight, specifically on working with Young’s streamlines, which he credited for the difference.

That’s the third of Murphy’s NAG Records that were broken this weekend, after his 15-16 50 went down (to two different swimmers) and his 17-18 100 back record went down to Jack Conger.

The comparative splits are below:

Ryan Murphy ’09 25.26 27.42 27.27 26.72 1:46.67
Ethan Young ’12 24.74 27.26 27.71 26.85 1:46.56

 

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danceingmonkey777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777
11 years ago

did u hear that he has a pet dolphin.

Jaystorm741
11 years ago

Ethen Young has skills dat kills.

Toddly86
11 years ago

I heard Poseidon is his dad and his mom is a mermaid, all I know is the kids fast

Gator
11 years ago

Perhaps he swam this event off of motivation after his poor preformance at Jrs. I believe that this was a breakout meet for this young man, and hope to see much more from him.

bobo gigi
11 years ago

It’s sometimes scary to read some comments.

Knox Auerbach
11 years ago

I see Ethan at some pretty big meets and he’s more than deserving of this. Nice friend and a great person. He’s fast and his coach is phenomenal. No doubt that he tore it up at this meet, watched as he took it out fast and held it to get the NAG. What’s with all the hate on a 14 year old kid?

Rafael
Reply to  Knox Auerbach
11 years ago

It seem that you can´t understand irony..

the usual suspects
Reply to  Knox Auerbach
11 years ago

You’re never going to believe this, I just saw a photo on TV of him hanging out with Lance Armstrong. They were setting a copy of USADA banned substance list on fire and dancing around it. UNBELIEVEABLE!

Gator69
Reply to  Knox Auerbach
11 years ago

Knox, you have class to come on here and back someone up, kudos to you!

SWIMNATZI
11 years ago

He could have used ancient” helium” treatments to create less drag….

The usual suspects
Reply to  SWIMNATZI
11 years ago

Sounds uncomfortable…

SWIMNATZI
11 years ago

The SWIMNATZI says he must be part German.

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