It was the last night of the first TYR Pro Swim Series for 2019. It had been a very solid meet. There were no jaw-dropping times from the weekend, which is to be expected in the middle of January.<\/p>\n
Katie Ledecky\u00a0<\/strong>won a couple of events in Knoxville.\u00a0Simone Manuel\u00a0<\/strong>won a couple of events.\u00a0Annie Lazor\u00a0<\/strong>had some big best times<\/a> that turned some heads.\u00a0Gianluca Urlando\u00a0<\/strong>had a humorous post-race interview<\/a>\u00a0about the money he just won.<\/p>\n There wasn’t anything too crazy going on in Knoxville. It seemed like a routine January meet while all of the athletes were taking a brief break from hard training.<\/p>\n Many swimmers were busy on Saturday night of the meet watching the first game of the NFL Playoffs. The Indianapolis Colts and the Kansas City Chiefs were playing in the divisional round which kicked off around 4:35 p.m. local time in Knoxville before the 6 p.m. start of the meet. A couple athletes delayed the start of their warm-up to catch some of the first quarter from the game.<\/p>\n Georgia’s\u00a0Pace Clark\u00a0<\/strong>was watching the game on his laptop that he brought on deck. A couple other Bulldog swimmers had gathered around before they started warming up including\u00a0Nic Fink<\/strong>,\u00a0Meaghan Raab<\/strong>,\u00a0Andrew Wilson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jay Litherland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At some point during the first quarter of the game, Clark looked up and noticed a guy in lane eight doing butterfly and made a comment that he had been doing butterfly since the game had started. As the swimmer got to each wall, he kept turning, and kept swimming butterfly. After each turn, the reaction would get louder from the Georgia bench as some started cheering him on.<\/p>\n Was it punishment? Was it voluntary? Why was he doing so much butterfly?<\/p>\n There were more whispers around the pool deck over what this guy’s intentions were. Later the people on deck found out he was doing a set of 30×100’s butterfly on 1:30.<\/p>\n There was cheering. Some of them posted encouraging videos on their Instagram stories. But no one knew who this mystery kid was.<\/p>\n The mystery kid is\u00a0Michael Sava<\/strong>.\u00a0He is 16-years-old and swims for Swim Ontario in Canada.<\/p>\n He ensured the set he did was not a punishment, rather it was a set his coach assigned to him after a frustrating 200 fly the night before. Sava wanted to be close to his best time of 2:02, but he only managed a 2:06 in the B-Final.<\/p>\n