He’s done it again. After this morning’s impressive swim, some might have thought it couldn’t get much better. Think again! Every time he’s touched the water this weekend, Andrew Wilson of Emory has posted swimming gold, in time if not in place.
With his 100 breaststroke this evening, Wilson has stepped into the record books for what could possibly be an extremely long stay. (And considering he still has a year to better the record he just set, he might be around indefinitely.)
Wilson’s time, causing so much chatter, was a 51.72.
That’s the third fastest time in the nation this year, and the ninth fastest 100 breaststroke ever swum by an American in short course yards. (Overall, the 11th fastest.) He was nearly three seconds ahead of the next fastest competitor tonight.
Here are the splits of this incredible race:
- 24.23
- 27.49
If you look at the emory website under roster, you will see that Andrew came in swimming a time of 59.4. This gives you some context as to how incredible this swim last night was!!! This young man should be an inspiration to other potential college swimmers who may not be the best swimmer on their high school or club team coming out of high school. My son swims at Emory and I use Andrew’s story ALL THE TIME to encourage him.
Just to add even more perspective, in 9th grade in 2009, Andrew’s best times were 1:09.62 in the breast and 2:23.65 in the IM.
The dude swam for Phillips Academy — a prep schoool, not a year-round club. THAT program must rock.
What. The DIII Champ meet record before this was a….54.1. Dude goes 51.7. Wilson Ledecky’d that record.
Damon Rosenberg had set the record at 53.6 last year, then Wilson lowered it at his mid year meet to 53.4.
Rosenburg’s swim from December set the NCAA record, but not the meet record.
This is so awesome!
Probably too late, but should be allowed to swim in DI’s!
Division III swimmers used to be able to qualify for DI competition at the DIII meet, but that’s not the case anymore.
I actually swam with Andrew in high school … where I remember him starting out on the *Junior* varsity team in his first couple of years. What incredible strides he has made since then – truly inspirational!
It’s not 3rd in the nation this year, it’s 4th. I assume you missed Anton Lobanov of Nova Southeast in DII. He was 51.63.
http://www.collegeswimming.com/results/28722/event/26/
I meant third in DI this year. Yes, you are correct. Anton Lobanov had quite the swim at DII NCAAs.
Thanks. There there a list of all time top scy times you can point me to?
Agree with both above. 9th fastest performer, and best I can tell a top 20 performance of all time! Only record that can hold a candle to this is Payne’s 1:00.54 from 2005. But even so, it’s not that close..