Ryan Hoffer Does It Again! Downs 15-16 50 Free NAG at Juniors

Ryan Hoffer Winter Junior Nationals 2014

FEDERAL WAY – Scottsdale’s Ryan Hoffer lowered his 15-16 national age group record yet again in the 50-yard free at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals.

Hoffer scorched the pool with a sterling time of 19.38. That time eclipsed his morning NAG of 19.45 that had pushed his record down from a 19.53 at the Arizona State High School Championships a month ago.

Hoffer, 16, is starting to near Caeleb Dressel territory. Dressel owns the meet record and 17-18 national age group record with an 18.94 from last year. Hoffer is progressing quickly towards that type of top-end speed.

Nitro’s Tate Jackson took second in 20.09 with PASA’s Albert Gwo placing third in 20.11.

Thomas Anderson (20.19), Mark McGlaughlin (20.20), Michael Jensen (20.20), Cole Cogswell (20.29) and Andre Vergani (20.48) placed fourth through eighth in the championship finale.

Scottsdale’s Jack Blake claimed the B final crown in 20.18 with 15-year-old pro Michael Andrew touching second in 20.27.

Tampa Bay’s Cooper Hoffman and Metro’s Dean Farris tied for third with matching 20.61s.

Tabahn Afrik (20.62), Adam Koster (20.67), Kyle Decoursey (20.74) and Will Hofstadter (20.75) rounded out the B final.

Colorado Springs’ Hunter Doerr grabbed the C final title in 20.41, while Daniel Krueger placed second in 20.45.

Blair Bish (20.49), Ty Powers (20.54), Jabari Baptiste (20.72), Noah Hensley (20.78), Kyle Grissom (20.92) and Cody Cline (21.21) also competed in the bonus heat.

 Event 10  Men 50 Yard Freestyle
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  SC Jrs Meet: J 18.94  12/12/2013Caeleb Dressel, Bolles School Sh
    Name            Age Team              Prelims     Finals HyPts Points
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                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Hoffer, Ryan     16 Scottsdale Aquat    19.45      19.38   943   20  
  2 Jackson, Tate    17 Nitro Swimming-S    20.17      20.09   871   17  
  3 Gwo, Albert      16 Palo Alto Stanfo    20.11      20.11   869   16  
  4 Anderson, Thoma  16 King Aquatic Clu    20.35      20.19   861   15  
  5 McGlaughlin, Ma  17 Iowa Flyers Swim    20.35      20.20   860   13.5
  5 Jensen, Michael  16 Upper Dublin Aqu    20.20      20.20   860   13.5
  7 Cogswell, Cole   17 Canyons Aquatic-    20.19      20.29   850   12  
  8 *Vergani, Andre  17 Bolles School Sh    20.04      20.48   831   11  
 
                            === B - Final ===                            
 
  9 Blake, Jack      16 Scottsdale Aquat    20.53      20.18   862    9  
 10 Andrew, Michael  15 Indie Swimming-M    20.35      20.27   852    7  
 11 Hoffman, Cooper  18 Tampa Bay  Aquat    20.53      20.61   818    5.5
 11 Farris, Dean     17 Metro Atlanta Aq    20.53      20.61   818    5.5
 13 Afrik, Tabahn    17 Michigan Lakesho    20.45      20.62   817    4  
 14 Koster, Adam     17 North Texas Nada    20.57      20.67   812    3  
 15 Decoursey, Kyle  17 Zionsville Swim-    20.57      20.74   805    2  
 16 Hofstadter, Wil  17 JCC Waves-CA        20.51      20.75   804    1  
 
                            === C - Final ===                            
 
 17 Doerr, Hunter    17 Colorado Springs    20.75      20.41   838  
 18 Krueger, Daniel  15 McFarland Sparta    20.58      20.45   834  
 19 Bish, Blair      18 Arkansas Dolphin    20.59      20.49   830  
 20 Powers, Ty       17 Splash Aquatic C    20.66      20.54   825  
 21 *Baptiste, Jaba  17 Bolles School Sh    20.72      20.72   807  
 22 Hensley, Noah    18 Blue Dolfins-FL     20.59      20.78   801  
 23 Grissom, Kyle    17 Tule Nation Trit    20.73      20.92   788  
 24 Cline, Cody      16 Wahoo's of Welli    20.70      21.21   759

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Bill Bell

9 years ago

Check this kid for too many Big Macs/Double Whoppers and whatever that giant burger @ Carl’s Jr.is called!

Cesar who? Nathan who? Florent who?

Felix

9 years ago

Florent I go that fast metres isn’t worried about teenage Americans

Bill Bell

9 years ago

Felix, what you fail to understand is that 19.38 is a METERS time,

See in the finals they moved the bulkhead back to 50 m for Hofer’s lane only and when Florent woke up this morning and saw some “10-year-old kid” go 19.3 for 50 meters he immediately announced his retirement!

Dunc1952

9 years ago

Bill, cut Felix a break. He certainly doesn’t entirely follow your sense of humor (who does?) and apparently doesn’t have an appreciation of SCY v SCM performances; let’s at least help him with the latter. Further, nobody expects Florent to be “worried” now, but he just turned 24, whereas Ryan is still just 16. Ryan may move into Florent’s range or he may not, but give him a little time.

The top SCM and SCY times in the 50 free are somewhat comparable. 7 of the top 10 all time non-tech suit SCM 50s (Cielo(Brazil-Auburn), Manadou(France), Morozov(Russia-Southern Cal), Bousquet (France-Auburn), Adrian(USA-Cal), Santos (Brazil), Bovell(TRI-Auburn), Ervin(USA-Cal), Sedov (Russia), Schoeman (RSA-Arizona))were done by athletes who swam in USA colleges and thus have SCY rest/shave times in the books. And in addition to these 7, other athletes from Brazil (Chiereghini), RSA(Tandy) and Great Britain (Brown) are in the SCY top 10 50s. When looking at the best times for each in the different courses, a common differential at this level is about 1.8 to 1.9 seconds (i.e. Cielo’s top non-tech SCY 18.69 v 20.51 SCM = 1.82; Morozov 18.63 v 20.55= 1.92) Thus, it would be fair to consider Manadou’s SCM 20.26 as equivalent to about 18.33 in SCY and Hoffer’s SCY swim as equivalent to SCM of 21.21. Hoffer’s got 8 years to improve a second. And maybe 5-6 years, if ever, before Manadou needs to start worrying.

Ought to make it clear as mud, right Felix?

Bill Bell

9 years ago

Reply to Dunc1952

Dif is all them cats was shaved, tapered and rested whereas Hoffer’s been doing 30K DOUBLES ALL WEEK prior to coming here!

When he tapers down to 25K and takes off the army boots — look out Michael Phelps!!!

Bill Bell

9 years ago

Reply to Bill Bell

Felix:

I know nada from sc meters but I do know that Anthony Ervin co-won a 50 free gold @ Sydney as an 18-year-old and he was NEVER 19.3 scy prior going to Cal that fall.

I’M NOT SUGGESTING Hoffer’ll be on the plane to RIO LET ALONE WIN BUT THERE is a precedent.

As for Abby Weitzeil’s 21.49 50 relay leadoff even mas amazing when you consider how fast Simone Manuel is…breaking her month-old record by a full tenth ain’t too shabby.

I realize swimming a 50 yard free is a whole different ballgame than doing it in the big pool but these swims show the potential is there.

As for Florent “quaking in his boots” (Speedo?) no he’s probably not losing any sleep over a 16-year-old kid but come Rio he just might.

At least I hope so!