100 Breastroke NAG Record reported by Braden Keith:
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.
You can follow Michael Andrew on Twitter here, @SwimmerMichael.
Two of my favorite things are fast swimming and Jesus Christ. I love this kid. I wish him all the best. Keep it up Michael Andrew.
The boy that got second, Blair Bish, posted the 13th fastest time for 17 year olds ever. Last year, when he was 16 at the same meet, he posted the 25th fastest time ever for 16 year olds. Watch out for this kid in the future. He’s on the climb. With work on strengthening his kick and working on not plowing through the water on the turns, I see him potentially making NCAA A cut his freshman year of college. And he’s only a junior this year.
I always spend the first half of these videos trying to figure out which one he is.
Does anyone agree with me that the 2nd place finisher should be DQ’d? It appears he did a downward kick before his hand initiating the pull.
That’s allowed, the rule is that your hands have to be separated before you star the kick. So you can kick, but just have the hands separated.
I don’t know that that is actually true. I was disqualified in college once for doing the kick after my hands had separated, but before the pull was initiated. I think individual judges may interpret the rule their own way
Did that time happen to be around the 2004-2006 timeframe? I think there was some confusion on how to interpret and enforce this rule during the formative phase of legal dolphin kicking during the pullout. If it was recently, then I have no explanation, the judge was just wrong. As the rules are interpreted now, at least in my LSC, separating the hands from the streamline counts as initiating the pull phase of the pullout.
Watch the 2nd swimmer a bit closer. He’s doing 2 butterfly kicks. A big one before the pull, and a smaller one following it. That is definitely a DQ.
I watched it closely and the first dolphin kick was perfectly legal (his hands were separated before he started the kick). The second kick that you are seeing isn’t illegal because it is going with the natural flow of the pullout. It can’t be a second dolphin kick because he never bends his knees the second time. So his pullouts were entirely legal
How old was the kid next to him? 54.2 is still really fast for an age grouper
I think this was at a Speedo Sectional so probably not an age group swimmer
17 year old…still really fast
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ha…. we don’t have a huge library of music. We’re licensing more.
First-world problem? I hear that a lot, am I using it right, kids?
Anyone agree that his over water swimming is at a much higher level than his walls/pullouts?…long course season…Look out!