Thursday night’s action at the Speedo Sectional in Shenandoah, Texas was brief, with just four individual events on the docket. Rising Kansas junior Chelsie Miller grabbed the headlines, winning the women’s 400 IM in runaway fashion.
Miller went 4:47.80 to crush the field, in a lifetime-best by over a second. Competing for Cypress Fairbanks Swim Team, Miller now ranks within the top 15 American times in that event for all of 2014.
The women’s 200 free went to 16-year-old Alexandra Buscher of Dads Club Swim Team. Buscher went 2:02.55, roaring home in a big final 50 of 30.9 to power away from the rest of the field.
In the men’s race, Alamo Area’s Luke Shaw picked up the win, going 1:52.68. That was enough to just beat out Longhorn Aquatics swimmer Patrick Dunne, who went 1:53.00.
Finally, the men’s 400 IM was won by Alex Tooley in 4:27.46. Tooley, a rising junior at the University of Delaware, topped Jordan Jones by about three seconds on the strength of a huge 1:13.8 breaststroke split that came within two seconds of outsplitting his backstroke.
The Sectional continues through Saturday night. Full results are available on Meet Mobile.
And the psych sheets o US juniors are available!
http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/6c81fcc7-7fb5-44b8-9c02-0462c19da683/2014%20Junior%20Nationals%20-%20Psych%20Sheet.pdf
12-year-old Destin Lasco just missed the old 13/14 200 IM NAG record at the Middle Atlantic LC junior olympics.
He swam 2.15.79. The NAG record is 2.15.42 by Chas Morton back in 1983!
Live results here.
http://results.teamunify.com/masgcit/
the 11/12 200 IM NAG record of course