NOTE: This video was posted last week, but the footage was from a fan in the stands. This footage was captured from a better angle.
Swimming news – 50 Freestyle NAG Record – reported by Braden Keith:
Michael Andrew has lowered another National Age Group record at the NASA Junior National Cup meet in Clearwater, Florida. The 14-year-old went 19.76 at finals of the 50 free to take another tenth off his NAG in the event.
Andrew won the 15-16 event easily, and also put up the fastest overall time at the meet. Making things interesting was that Andrew swam the event immediately prior, the 200 breast, going a best time there as well.
Andrew went 1:59.63 in that 200 breast, his first time under two minutes. The 200 breast is the only short course NAG 200 yards or lower that Andrew doesn’t currently own, and that time puts him a lot closer than he was. The current 13-14 NAG is held by Reece Whitley, presumably at the 1:58.39 he went two weeks ago at a Junior Olympic meet, although that time doesn’t yet appear on the USA Swimming NAG records list.
The old 50 free NAG was 19.85, set back at the Jenks Sectional when Andrew became the first 14-year-old under 20 seconds.
Great swim!
If he raced in a pool with wedge blocks he might have been a tenth or 2 faster.
Incredible. This kid is making a mockery of the Age Group swimming levels. His body type does look a lot like a young Michael Phelps. Just saying.
He at 14 looks like Phelps at 17 18 already…
Not trying to be critical as this is an awesome swim but I could see another tenth or so just by not taking that breath 4 strokes from the finish.
Sorry for the double comment. Bad connection
Ha… no worries!
Colin Riley is 15 and will be 15 for the summer as well.
Colin Riley will be 15 until Late August.
Colin Riley will be 15 for the summer as well.
How old is the young man next to him? Because 20.3 is pretty impressive as well, at a junior meet.
Josh, I don’t know. I’ll ask Braden… I bet one of our readers can find the answer faster. They typically do!
Josh – got part of the answer:
lane 6 – 50 Free
Swim Meet: 2014 NASA Junior National Championship Cup
Swimmer: Colin Riley
Event: Men 50 Yard Free
Place: 2
Time: 20.39
DROPPED – 0.48
Colin Riley’s mom (Pam) here…Colin was thrilled to have a chance to swim next to Michael and to meet him – a truly impressive young man. He certainly motivated Colin to swim a best time.
Should they ever decide to give up the background music, they will hear no complaints from me
Luigi, the Andrew family has nothing to do with it. Sometimes we/SwimSwam receive media and the audio isn’t usable. Our editors (sometimes me, but not on this one) drop music under the clip so it’s not a sound vacuum. When we can, we keep the ambient sound of the pool and crowd.
Weve heard from a few readers that they don’t like the music. Frankly, we used to have someone who found great tracks for us. It’s a challenge because they must be rights free. We’re working on refreshing our library of music, adding better tracks…. When music works, it’s does help the video…but for race videos, we’ll strive to go with the natural sound.
Thank you, Mel, for the clarification. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Luigi, and if you or anyone else finds great tracks, don’t hesitate to email me the link. We have a budget to lic music. (For race videos, however, we’ll go with nat sound based on feedback from readers.)