Ten-year-old Zoe Skirboll of Pine-Richland Aquatics added her name to the National Age Group record list for a second time this weekend, swimming at 2015 NASA 14-Under Single Age Showcase Classic in Clearwater, Florida. Skirboll broke the girls’ 10-and-under 100 free mark on Friday with 54.89; on Saturday she became the second ten-year-old girl in history to go 24.90 in the 50, sharing that honor with Lia Neal.
Coming into the meet, Skirboll’s fastest 50 yard free time was 25.41. She went 25.29 in prelims, then blazed a 24.90 to win the final.
Neal went 24.90 in December 2005 as a ten-year-old at Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics, and has held the record alone for nearly ten years.
You can find full results of the meet on Meet Mobile, or on the live results page here.
Should not be celebrating any kids under 12 in any sport on a national or state level. Sends all the wrong message. Their talent and maturity is amazing but it rarely translates into the same level of success 8-10 years later. Volleyball, softball, baseball, basketball, tennis, and others have long lists of amazing kids that drop from the top in the years ahead. I would question the training that is going on to reach those swim speeds…a light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. The same insanity happens in music. The prodigies peak early and fade away. Timing in life is everything and to push a child that young is not wise. Swimming those times requires enormous… Read more »
All these kids are talented and spend hrs after hrs training in the pool. This is a big sacrifice for them and specially for the parents .
i wish you also mention something about the all around swimmers not only the specialists.In the recent show case meet, there are many swimmers that entered many events and swam at least a total of twenty swims. they may not break Nag records but hopefully they are also recognized by their efforts in breaking the meet records
Way to go Zoe 🙂 It is amazing what you are doing and I really hope and believe that whatever strange comments others might say (all out of jealously I am sure) will not take away anything you are accomplishing for yourself and the sport of swimming. I am more than impressed with the way you handle yourself in the midst of all the attention and you are 10! You are an amazing girl with a beautiful soul who happens to swim very very well . Congrats to you and your family … can’t wait to see you swim and work with Jim this summer at FCRC!!
Terri R.
Vice President, Fox Chapel Racquet Club
Congratulations to Zoe on an amazing meet. Keep having fun and working hard. Looking forward to seeing your continued success!
Anyone commenting about the technology behind the suit should watch the video of the race. This young lady has lots of talent and personality. Be quiet about the suit. Give the kid the respect she deserves. I swam in college with her dad many years ago and he deserves to be recognized also. It takes a village to raise a super fast swimmer.
Clintonesque comments always get voted down – “It takes a village…”?
Congratulations Zoe!! You should be so proud of yourself and what you have accomplished!!
Ignore the negative, people that say those things are just envious.
Congratulations Coach Jim!! You must be so
proud!!
This kid just flat out killed it. She is faster than most high school swimmers. It is not the suit. She is amazing. You want to debate the suite, do it somewhere else. Don’t ruin her article with your negativity. Be like her dad and simply shout ‘ GO ZOE, GO!!!!!’
That young swimming star has the meet of her life, breaks NAG records and some people are here just to troll, to criticize and to be negative. Too bad.
Big congrats Zoe Skirboll.
And what is even more impressive is that she swam 24.90 to tie Lia’s NAG record after swimming a 200 IM and a 100 fly in the same session!
You can find her race and the sessions’ replays in video here.
https://livestream.com/floridaswimnetwork3/showcaseclassic15