On Saturday morning, in prelims, Andrew Rogers of the Arkansas Dolphins swam the fastest 100 meter fly ever done by an American 10-year old, swimming a 1:06.52.
Above, Evan Johnston, one of the teams’ coaches, has shared a video of Rogers’ record-breaking performance.
You can hear his coaches talking about the record at the beginning of the video (with his history in short course, its natural for them to have had an eye on the old record of 1:07.24). Rogers does very little of his swimming underwater, and was very controlled early in the race. He began with a one-up, one-down breathing pattern, which fell to two up one down, and eventually three up one down as he fatigued.
But even as tiredness sets in late in the race (a 100 fly in long course is a long race for a 10-year old), he still stayed very low to the water, and hardly shortened up at all coming into his touch.
Rogers is also the holder of the short course yards record in the 100 fly.
Read more about his record-breaking performance here.
Read the Friday finals recap here.
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Andrew is very passionate even in practice he is very likable
Great swim!
It’s no longer the Dolphin-Laser swim team. They are now known as the Arkansas Dolphins.
11-12 100 meter fly record was set in ’83!
Wow! What a swim! In addition to his super form, this kid competes with great power and passion! Had the pleasure watching him swim two years at the Central Zone Meet in Topeka KS. A young 9-yr-old then, he cried after each loss and had a huge smile on his face when he finally won 100FL. Looking forward to seeing more fast swims!
Wow, beautiful stroke!! Wonder how much he is training and what type of program?
Anyone know who had the record before?
Carson Foster had it before, and before Foster, was Phelps! 🙂
He just broke it again! 1:05.98!
Unbelievable. A ten-year-old CHILD swimming the 100 meter butterfly in a 1:05! Wow. Speechless. Bravo to this young athlete! Well done!
how exciting is this– congratulations
Remarkably well developed stroke I thought considering his young age. Yep, you could see his fatigue set in on the back half and increased his oxygen but kept his stroke like you said. Kinda funny to see how far ahead of the rest of the field he was. Hope this kid stays in the game for many more years to come. Will be interesting to see how he keeps developing.