Brendan Burns\u00a0<\/strong>broke the 100 short course meters NISCA National Public High School record on Monday night. Swimming for Conestoga High School, the junior\u00a0touched in 52.41.\u00a0Conestoga was racing Garnet Valley in a dual meet.<\/p>\n

Burns won the 100 fly\u00a0by 14 seconds, and was four and a half seconds under the pool record, a 57.17.\u00a0While short course meters are rarely raced in the high school setting, NISCA does maintain a set of records for the events, and Burns obliterated the old mark (pending verification of the pool length).\u00a0The previous NISCA mark was a 55.62, set in 2003 by\u00a0Kyle Bubolz\u00a0<\/strong>of Waukesha North High School in Waukesha, WI.<\/p>\n

Burns also swam the backstroke leg of Conestoga’s winning 200 medley relay and swam third on the school’s second place, 200 freestyle A relay. Individually, he was\u00a053.66 in the 100 meter backstroke.\u00a0That time is not a NISCA National mark though, as\u00a0Destin Lasco\u00a0<\/strong>swam a 53.28 in Linwood, New Jersey, on January 12th. Burns was well under the old National mark, had his swim come a few days sooner.<\/p>\n

Earlier this season Burns was second in the 200 fly at USA Winter Nationals. He does his club swimming for Upper Main Line YMCA.<\/p>\n