Michael Andrew Downs 100 Breast 15-16 National Age Group Record

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AUSTIN – Michael Andrew, the 15-year-old professional swimmer, unleashed his first 15-16 U.S. National Age Group record with a win in the men’s 100-meter breast at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin.

Andrew came home like a freight train with a 32.38 to get in front of Trojan’s Glenn Snyders, 1:01.67 to 1:01.70, for the win. The time pushed him in front of Carsten Vissering’s 15-16 U.S. NAG time of 1:01.94 set in 2013.

That’s Andrew’s first 15-16 long course NAG after obliterating the age group record books as a 10 year old up through 14.

Snyders (1:01.70) and NYAC’s Mike Alexandrov (1:01.77) rounded out the podium with Tennessee’s Brad Craig taking fourth in 1:01.89.

                          === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Michael Andrew   15 Indie Swimming-M  1:02.18    1:01.67 OLY    
                 29.29      1:01.67 (32.38)
  2 Glenn Snyders    27 Trojan Swim Club  1:02.30    1:01.70 OLY    
                 28.49      1:01.70 (33.21)
  3 Mike Alexandrov  29 New York Athleti  1:03.07    1:01.77 OLY    
                 29.07      1:01.77 (32.70)
  4 Brad Craig       25 Tennessee Aquati  1:02.36    1:01.89 OLY    
                 29.34      1:01.89 (32.55)
  5 Andrew Wilson    21 Una Esc-GA        1:03.17    1:02.51 OLY    
                 29.09      1:02.51 (33.42)
  6 Anton McKee      21 Univ of Alabama-  1:03.12    1:02.59 OLY    
                 29.58      1:02.59 (33.01)
  7 Austin Temple    18 Univ of Texas-ST  1:02.97    1:03.03 OLY    
                 29.50      1:03.03 (33.53)
  8 Thiago Parravic  26 Streamline Aquat  1:03.07    1:03.45 OLY    
                 30.16      1:03.45 (33.29)
 
                            === B - Final ===                            
 
  9 Nick Kostiuk     21 Edmonton Keyano-  1:03.52    1:04.04 JRS    
                 29.60      1:04.04 (34.44)
 10 Pavel Romanov    21 Univ of Alabama-  1:04.22    1:04.12 JRS    
                 30.20      1:04.12 (33.92)
 11 Jason Block      25 Trojan Swim Club  1:04.55    1:04.30 JRS    
                 30.39      1:04.30 (33.91)
 12 Trevor Hoyt      23 Yucaipa Swim Tea  1:05.16    1:04.42 JRS    
                 30.06      1:04.42 (34.36)
 13 Mark Conroy      23 Unattached-MV     1:03.73    1:04.51 JRS    
                 29.91      1:04.51 (34.60)
 14 Ryder McGinnis   17 Edmonton Keyano-  1:05.51    1:04.56 JRS    
                 30.13      1:04.56 (34.43)
 15 Azad Al-Barazi   27 Trojan Swim Club  1:05.14    1:05.00 JRS    
                 29.79      1:05.00 (35.21)
 16 Marko Blazevski  22 SwimMAC Carolina  1:05.36    1:05.60 JRS    
                 31.17      1:05.60 (34.43)

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Bill Bell

9 years ago

Among the “scalps” Andrew took down were former Bulgarian and New Zealand Olympians Alexandrov and Snyders (with the former also an NCAA champ) plus former SEC record-holder/champion Craig.

And here I thought that when he aged up as a 14-year-old to the 15-16 bracket he was history.

Guess I’ll be eating something besides my words for dinner tonight.

Way 2 go “Lil’ Mikey!”

matt

9 years ago

Good holy G**. this kid is nuts. those guys are one trick pony breast strokers and Andrew just, JUST turned 15. and he could beat all those guys in every other stroke. remarkable…

Andrew

9 years ago

No backend endurance on the 200 though. It looked like to me he struggled to nail 4 good pull outs.