This past weekend saw an all-out assault on USA Swimming’s National Age Group record books, with records falling at both the East and West Winter Junior Championships, plus the Nation’s Capital Swim Club Invite in Maryland.
Now we’re asking you, the SwimSwam reader, to vote on which NAG record of the weekend was most impressive in our latest A3 Performance Poll.
With the sheer number of records, we weren’t able to include all of them as individual poll options – several are rolled into the “other” designation. If you feel strongly about one of the “other” selections, leave your reasoning in the comments section, and we’ll analyze both the poll and the comments in our “SwimSwam Pulse” segment when we close the poll.
Important Note: We are not including Katie Ledecky‘s 8:59.65 in the 1000 free as one of the options, classifying that swim as an overall American record rather than just a NAG (though it was the National Age Group record for the 17-18s). As exciting as it might be to see Ledecky’s swim (11 seconds faster than anyone of any age in the history of swimming) sweep nearly all the votes, it’ll make for more interesting poll results to pit only the NAG records that weren’t also American records against one another.
National Age Group Records – Weekend of December 12-13
Speedo West Winter Junior Championships:
- Michael Andrew, 15-16 boys 200 IM, : 1:42.77
- Michael Andrew, 15-16 boys 100 fly: 46.23
- Michael Andrew, 15-16 boys 100 breast: 52.21
- Ryan Hoffer, 17-18 boys 100 free: 41.23
Speedo East Winter Junior Championships:
- Alex Walsh, 13-14 girls 200 IM: 1:56.20
- Alex Walsh, 13-14 girls 100 back: 51.62
- Camden Murphy, 15-16 boys 100 fly: 46.25
- SwimMAC girls, 15-18, 17-18 girls 200 free relay: 1:30.09
- SwimMAC girls, 17-18 girls 400 free relay: 3:16.62
NCAP Invite:
- Reece Whitley, 15-16 boys 200 breast: 1:53.66
- Brett Feyerick, 11-12 boys 50 back: 24.22
You can vote for your favorite swim in our latest A3 Peformance Poll, which you can find on the SwimSwam.com homepage or embedded below:
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Ledecky, and it’s not even close
With Katie Ledecky out of the game, it’s obviously much more open! 😆
I imagine that Alex Walsh is “other”? 😆
Well, Alex Walsh broke the women’s 100 back 13/14 NAG record by 1.25s.
Ryan Hoffer broke the men’s 100 free 17/18 NAG record by 0.67s.
It’s tough to choose between these 2 teens.
Alex Walsh is my favorite US age group girl of the moment and she has an amazing international future but I believe I consider Hoffer’s swim as a little bit more historical. He’s the 2nd fastest American ever. Of course his underwaters are the key of his success in yards. It’s not the case about Miss Walsh. And I’m not the biggest… Read more »
Hoffer. I watched it live. His underwater’s are absolutely spectacular.
If you take Ledecky out of the picture, it’s Hoffer by a country mile. He got within half a second of the fastest anyone has ever covered 100 yards and he’s a junior in HS
Hoffer defienetly
I had the privelige of watching Reece on the deck at finals that night at NCAP. It was by far the most amazing swim I have ever seen. Congrats Reece!
In my opinion, I don’t think we should be rating who had the “BEST” NAG record when all of these athletes accomplished something more than amazing. Comparing them is kind of ridiculous when they are in such a variety of events. I think this is a great showcase of the future of US Swimming and I’m just so excited to see such talented, young, and humble athletes! Congrats to all!
I would say Hoffer’s. A big reason was how surprising it was. I doubt anyone thought he was going to go that fast on that day. Judging by Hoffer’s own reaction, I think he would agree with me!