Swimming news, Michael Andrew 100 Backstroke NAG Record, reported by Jared Anderson:
In Plantation, Florida, Michael Andrew has lowered yet another 13-14 National Age Group record. In the first event of Saturday finals, the 14-year-old Andrew went 56.83 in the 100 back to re-break the NAG he set just over a  month ago in Orlando.
Probably most impressive in the swim was Andrew’s closing speed. He split 27.97/28.86 to charge home for third place and become the first 14 year old under 57 seconds in the event in American history. His old NAG record stood at 57.13 from the Orlando stop of the Grand Prix circuit.
Andrew moved up from sixth place after a disappointing morning swim. He was 1.2 seconds faster at night, beating everyone in the field except Club Wolverine Japanese pro Junya Koga and New York Athletic Club’s former Russian Olympian Arkady Vyatchanin.
For Andrew, it was his second NAG in as many days after he broke the 100 fly mark Friday night. As the wry joke goes, Andrew’s NAG records tend to come in threes, and some swim fans will certainly be looking ahead to his next opportunity to put together a trifecta. That will likely have to wait until tomorrow, though. Andrew’s only other event today was the 50 free, where he was a half-second (23.66) off his NAG of 23.19 in prelims and hovered around the same time in a pair of time trial swims between sessions. Meet Mobile seems to show that he’s scratched the event for tonight. He’s entered in all 4 non-distance races tomorrow, so he’ll have his pick of the 200 fly, 100 free, 200 breast and 200 back based on what he decides to scratch.
NCSA junior nationals for him this week.
Generally when you’re coming back from long course, everything looks easy in short course.
We can perhaps expect another set of 3 NAG records from Mr Andrew. 🙂
The meet starts today with both 1000 free races.
The 2 new NCAP swimmers Isabella Rongione and Matthew Hirschberger are the swimmers to beat.
Final psych sheet here
https://www.teamunify.com/recndncsa/UserFiles/File/psych%20final.pdf
408 girls are entered in the 50 back!
Is this a record?
That’s going to be almost four hours of the 50 back.
I’m not sure they can mathematically pull this meet off.
Well, uh. On the bright side, those swimmers with a large event lineup should have plenty of time to rest.
How will they get around session time limits with that many swimmers, two pools or not? I’m guessing that their timeline counts on a 2 second buffer between heats.
Also, Braden, I think your math might be slightly off. 408 swimmers is 51 heats, which should take around half an hour. 408 heats would take closer to four hours, though 🙂
Yeah….that must’ve been the math I was doing. Ha.
Still a lot of dang heats. I think it’s ambitious still to think you can get through 51 heats of the 50 back in half an hour. Maybe the 50 free if you were doing flyovers…
It’s actually the 50 fly that has 408 swimmers, so this is possible. The girls 50 backstroke actually only has a measley 374…
Sorry. You’re right.
408 in the 50 fly.
Only 374 in the 50 back! 🙂
372 in the 100 back.
335 in the 100 fly.
Fortunately, there are 2 pools for prelims.
His underwater in backstroke are alot better than freestyle!