Watch Canyons Aquatic Club 18-year-old Abbey Weitzeil become the fastest 17-18 50 freestyler in history in the video above. Weitzeil is in lane 8, leading off the Canyons 4×50 free relay which won Junior National gold.
As reported by SwimSwam’s Jared Anderson:
Girls 4×50 free relay
- Meet record: 1:30.13 – Carmel, 2013
- 13-14 NAG: 1:33.37 – Aquajets, 2012
- 15-16 NAG: 1:31.84 – SwimMAC, 2012
- 17-18 NAG: 1:31.05 – SwimMAC, 2014
- 15-18 NAG: 1:30.13 – Carmel, 2013
Once again, Canyons senior Abbey Wetizeil was the star of the women’s relay event. The Cal commit crushed a 21.49 leading off the 200 free relay to crush the National Age Group record for 17-18s in the 50 free.
Weitzeil skipped the individual 50 yesterday, and has been swimming only relays, perhaps taking a lighter schedule to deal with jet lag from her recent trip to the Short Course World Championships in Qatar. Swimming only one race a night, Weitzeil has been electric, and this swim probably tops all the rest. She breaks the National Age Group record held by Stanford freshman Simone Manuel – Manuel officially held the record at 21.70, but put up a 21.59 a few weeks ago that had yet to officially be recognized in USA Swimming’s record books. But now Weitzeil’s swim will top both as the best mark ever put up by an under-18 swimmer.
Weitzeil’s big lead powered the Canyons girls to the relay title in 1:31.14. Also on the squad were Tamaro Santoyo (22.88), Nikol Popov (23.55) and Mik Ranslem (23.22).
They beat Palo Alto by eight tenths, as PASA went 1:31.98 for second. PASA was also tough on the leadoff leg, getting a 22.80 from Grace Zhao.
Scottsdale took third in 1:32.03, with Taylor Ruck capping off her busy night with a 22.65 split and Samantha Fazio leading off in 22.67. Fourth was Bolles in 1:32.46, with Sherridon Dressel going 22.54 on the second leg.
You can find our full day 3 recap here.
You can view race videos from all A finals on day 3 here.
