It’s the time of year for long course records to be broken, and they’re dropping like flies across the country. Marking more than half-a-dozen set in the last month, the Cincinnati Marlins have struck for the second time this summer in breaking the National Age Group Record in the 10 & under boys 200 medley relay.
In the race, swum at the Ohio Junior Olympics on the Miami campus, Ian Brann, Aaron Sequeira, Carson Foster, and Jacob McDonald swam a 2:18.89 to snap the old record that stood at 2:19.05. That swim was done by a De Anza Cupertino Aquatics squad that was anchored by Cal standout Adam Hinshaw.
As for the Marlins’ swim, their splits were 36.49 – 40.58 – 30.61 – 31.21. The scary part is that this relay could have conceivably been even faster – the butterfly split of 30.61 by Foster was actually a few tenths slower than his flat-start National Age Group Record in the event set a few days ago. Each of the Marlins swimmers had the fastest split on his respective leg of the race (though a 31.27 anchor from Mason Manta Rays’ Adam Chaney to lead his team to a 2nd-place finish was pretty impressive too).
This wasn’t Foster’s only highlight swim of the meet; on Thursday, he swam a 2:21.16 to win the 10 & under individual 200 free. That broke both the Meet Record, as well as the Marlins’ Team Record, making him now a sole holder, or part of a relay, that has broken 11 of the age group’s 15 team records. He’s got great versatility – in addition to the 200, and after the medley, he swam a 33.30 to break another Meet Record and win the 10 & under boys’ 50 backstroke. That was just .04 away from the Ohio LSC record.