Maxime Rooney Breaks 17-18 NAG Record in 200 Free in SEC Prelims

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Florida freshman Maxime Rooney is still 18, so he can still break National Age Group records at this week’s SEC championships in Knoxville. He did just that Thursday morning when he posted a 1:33.05 in the 200 free for the top-seeded time into finals.

That broke Tom Kremer’s 2013 NAG mark of 1:33.07 and was well under Rooney’s own lifetime best of 1:33.70. He was the U.S. Short Course National Champion in the event in December and could add more hardware later on tonight in the final.

Earlier in the meet, Rooney split a quick 1:31.54 on Florida’s 800 free relay, so there could be even more in tank for this evening. He is the top seed in the event,while South Carolina’s Fynn Minuth took the second seed at 1:34.22, followed by Florida’s Khader Baqlah (1:34.47), Alabama’s Laurent Dams (1:34.56), Florida’s Mitch D’Arrigo (1:34.62), Georgia’s Walker Higgins (1:34.81), Tennessee’s Joey Reilman (1:34.82) and Missouri’s Mike Schreuders (1:34.99).

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Jennifer Jensen Treat
7 years ago

GO GATORS ???

Bill Bell
7 years ago

Tom Kremer never held the NAG record Rooney broke as he is an an Isreali citizen and non – Americans can’t hold U.S. NAG records.

Grant Shoults of Rancho Santa Margarita High in Southern California ( and now S freshman @ Stanford) went 1:33.26 @ last year’s SoCal Oreo Championshios and that’s the record Rooney broke.

Bill Bell
7 years ago
Reply to  Bill Bell

Make that ” prep championships”

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