2023 NBAC Mid-Summer Classic
- July 6-9, 2023
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s, Maryland
- Long Course Meters (50m)
- Live results
A group of 14-year-old swimmers from the North Baltimore Aquatic Club broke a National Age Group relay record this weekend.
Racing this weekend at the NBAC Mid-Summer Classic, the team of Julia Rommel, Spencer Belbot, Daniel Branon, and Shannon Conway combined for a 4:11.32 in the mixed 400 meter medley relay, which broke the US record for the age group.
The prior record of 4:11.95 was set in 2019 by the Bluefish Swim Club in New England. That Bluefish record was done as part of a streak that saw the group break four mixed relay age group records in two weeks.
NBAC was an earlier record-holder of this mark in the early days of USA Swimming adding mixed relay marks to their books – albeit in a 4:19.
Splits Comparison:
| Bluefish Swim Club |
North Baltimore AC
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| 2019 Record | New Record | |
| Back | Nathan Delisle (M) – 1:00.02 |
Julia Rommel (F) – 1:06.09
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| Breast | Joshua Parent (M) – 1:09.43 |
Spencer Belbot (M) – 1:09.61
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| Fly | Aislin Farris (F) – 1:04.34 |
Daniel Branon (M) – 56.95
|
| Free | Brynn Wright (F) – 58.16 |
Shannon Conway (F) – 58.67
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| Total Time | 4:11.95 | 4:11.32 |
Individually, Belbot won the 100 breast (1:10.63), Branon won the 100 fly (56.96), the 100 free final has yet to be swum, and Rommel didn’t race the 100 back. Conway’s split, though, was eight-tenths better than her flat start best in the 100 free, which makes this an unusual occasion where everyone swims to their best in a club relay – leading to the record-setting effort.
NBAC is a historic club best known as the training home of Michael Phelps, the most decorated swimmer in history.
@Braden Keith – wow, looks like this NAG record has just been lowered:
MeetMobile > Super League Summer LC Finals > Saturday, July 15 Finals > Mixed 400 Meter Medley Relay
4:09.21
Do they not be running this event at big meets? Feels like my club couldve done this back in the day and we were pretty mid like surely this could be 10-15s faster if it was a priority?
No shot your club had a mixed medley relay that could go 10-15 seconds faster than that with 13-14 year olds, especially not if it was “pretty mid”. It’s definitely not the fastest record I’ve ever seen, but it’s far from slow.
Are you thinking it’s yards? Because it’s an LCM record.
You couldn’t have, but mixed relay records do tend to be the softest records based on how new they are.