In two weeks, Andrew Seliskar will swim at the U.S. National Championships for NCAP. In another couple of months he will be a Thomas Jefferson Colonial for the high school season. A year after that, he’ll begin his career for a big University team (which he hasn’t yet chosen).
But this weekend, the National Age Group Record holder and top recruit in the class of 2015 is a McLean Marlin, and he’s quite a McLean Marlin at that. Swimming in the Northern Virginia Summer League (NVSL) Divisionals, Seliskar broke league records in both the 50 fly (23.90) and 100 IM (54.86).
The old record in the 50 fly of 24.34 was done by National Teamer Sean Fletcher, and the old mark in the 100 IM was a 57.12 belonging to current Virginia Tech undergrad Brandon Fiala.
For what it’s worth, even with no block to dive from, and even in a summer league pool, those times both would’ve been within a few tenths of semi-finaling at the 2012 World Short Course Championships.
Afterward, SwimSwam contributor Matt Rees caught up with Seliskar for a few words.
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Well done Andrew! I’m sayin’ all of the past Marlins are are proud of you.. Great swims, great interview (attributing your coach and summer team). With those times, if there were an MSTA Hall of Fame, you’re in it.
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What a deal breaker!!
And all three of those IMer’s you note are foreign and apparently the Scot confuses a police car with a tree when nature calls
Swimfan, unless you know something I don’t, Ryan Lochte is American. Bradley Ally was born in Barbados, but he and his parents moved to Florida in 2000. He spent most of his swimming years here. That leaves Cieslak, who is Polish. In the 400 IM, the top 4 are Dwyer (American), Lochte (American), Ally (practically American), and Wallace (Scottish).
5adad, I would hardly call someone’s college experience in 1985 indicative of what a school is like today. That was nearly 30 years ago. The average GPA for freshmen entering this year was a 4.4 and the average SAT score was a 1960. Florida has more International Baccalaureate students entering than any school in the country. It’s not an Ivy,… Read more »
just read Dara Torres’ book in which she states that she went to Florida because Stanford and Cal were too academic. No way you’ll see Seliskar make a similar choice.
My children just went through their first full summer of swimming here in Northern Virginia. Summer league swimming is a really, really big deal here, and the community of coaches, kids, and parents is wonderful. The best year-around swimmers in the area (like Mr. Seliskar and Ms. Janet Hu) come back to the summer league programs they started in, and swim for them. It really is a wonderful thing.
I’m really happy to see that he still swims summer league, despite being such a world-class athlete. Lots of swimmers in my area quit summer league swimming to focus on their year-round teams and their championship training, so it’s nice to see that he still has an interest.
I would expect a highly rated math, science, technology school rather than the SEC
Are you subtly suggesting Stanford or Cal?
If he’d like to focus on academics, I’m sure Princeton could find a place for him on their team.
“could find a place for him” – any coach would die to have this guy on the team. he goes to thomas jefferson high school in virginia which is one of the top high schools in the country. Whenever I went to a math competition, kids from this school would kill it. High character kid with good academics.
Florida has had Rhodes Scholar finalists and kids who went on to get doctorates after matriculating at Cambridge on their team and recently tied Michigan for most Div 1 Scholar All-Americans, so they aren’t exactly academically-weak. They are also without peer when it comes to IM excellence. Name another school that has had 3 different guys go under 1:41 in the 200 IM and four under 3:39 in the 400 IM. You have to go 1:43 and 3:41 to crack their all-time top 10 performers list. They know what they’re doing when it comes to the events he swims.
princeton > florida in academics
princeton < florida in swimming
you guys tie
Medleys, 200 strokes, well-rounded.. this kid is tailor-made for Florida. I hope he signs with UF and becomes the next Gator great.