14-year old phenom Michael Andrew has broken yet another National Age Group Record, taking down the 100 yard breaststroke at the 2014 Jenks, Oklahoma Sectional Championship meet.
Andrew swam a 54.04 to win the final at that meet, which broke his 54.80 set, which means that in the last few months, he’s now dropped the National Age Group Record by well over two seconds – Tanner Kurz had held the mark at 56.36 before Andrew broke it.
Editor’s note: Reece Whitley has also since been under the old record at just 13 years old too.
Andrew now owns the four fastest times in 13-14 history, and sits just eight-tenths of a second shy of Andrew Seliskar’s 15-16 National Age Group Record.
Full meet results available on Meet Mobile.
Oh to be a teenager again and drop 2 seconds in a 100 every season… Soak it up and enjoy it while it lasts, Michael!
Josh, how about this as well as the injury induced unintended rest… and this is how I came to USRPT- so-called ‘slackers’ who were the ‘last repeat heroes’ or took the pong bathroom breaks between sets and skipped yards… but then out raced everyone who ‘did all the work’… true, many were just slackers who I think unwittingly backed into something positive… but it got me thinking if there wasn’t something to ripping out a few fast ones and chilling between grouped efforts. Anyhow… just another angle.
I am excited to see what Andrew has done with his training methods and the success he has had. But I think the message should be sent across that USRPT will not and does not work for a lot of people. There are other successful swimmers training much more than Andrew. Andrew flies by with homeschooling and a few 1000 yards a day. There are people out there training 10,000 a day and doing normal school and succeeding. They should be applauded.
A suggestion for swim swam – I loved it when Garrett and FloSwimming did videos from training sessions. Any way you could start that up? Travel around and film some workouts? Start with M Andrew perhaps and… Read more »
“I think the message should be sent across that USRPT will not and does not work for a lot of people”
Theoretically it should work for absolutely everyone.
I think what “Swim Coach” meant to say is that the message should be sent across that not every coach can COACH USRPT.
That way, the bad coaches who have been skating by on “4×200, 4×400, 4×600, 4×800: ready, go” don’t have their business eroded by coaches who are skilled and talented enough to coach USRPT.
In other words: please remind my swim team that the “old way” still works better for them, so they don’t have to switch to that other team using USRPT.
I agree that all swimmers should be applauded. That’s why I’ve been to 500 different teams in the last 10 years to cheer them on. Swimmers are the hardest working athletes on the planet, we all know that. Anyone that can go 10+K a day, stay awake in class, have a healthy hobby like music, make good grades, spend quality/quantity time with their family, and swim to their potential should be celebrated but unfortunately it’s rare. Maybe just an hour in the morning and an hour at night would help more of us find that elusive balance to a long happy healthy career.
Here’s how I see it. There are 400,000 USA swimming members (tough, year-rounders) between ages 7 and… Read more »
Thanks for the nod!
I do my own variation of USRPT…I typically get in the pool 20 minutes into the workout, missing the unstructured warmup time and the first “warmup” set. To me that’s just piling miles on the odometer without any benefit. I descend the first few repeats of my first set to get going. It’s much easier to get warmed up when I’m focused and swimming on an interval. I’m in a pretty traditional program, so I have to do a lot of modifying. When I’m tired, I rest. My goal is to swim as little as possible as well as possible so I can maximize my benefit and minimize the recovery time I need. I never… Read more »
Simply Awesome! I’m so proud of you Michael. Michael is the first swimmer I’ve met who loves to race as much as I do:) What’s more amazing is how little yardage he did to get there. Not easy yardage but a mind-blowing small amount. No one would believe that a swimmer could reach their potential on 3000 a day (1500 in morning & 1500 at night) but it’s happening.
USRPT takes incredible focus and effort by swimmer and coach but sets only last about 10-20 minutes. Michael and I trained together on Tuesday. On our USRPT set I did fly and he did breast. He held is best splits ever and said, “I know I can get that record… Read more »
Smash
Yikes. I may need a bigger font of SMASH to properly express how SMASHy this one is.
Slow motion for me, slow motion for me, move, in slow motion for me.
Uhh, I like it like that. Please to show slow motion for me?
😆 😆 😆 😆
Amazing!
Michael Andrew didn’t like that I wrote a few days ago he would probably lose his 100 breast NAG record next week or next December so he destroyed it to be sure it wouldn’t happen. 😆
From 54.80 to 54.04! 😯
Now he hasn’t to be worried.
His record will not be broken next week by Reece Whitley.
It should last at least until December.
He has also almost broken his 100 fly NAG record just after the 100 breast.
He won the race in 47.56. Very close to his 47.47.
Live results here
http://results.teamunify.com/osjtsc/
This NAG-breaking business of his is starting to become a habit…