GREENSBORO, North Carolina, December 13. THE swimming community certainly sat stunned last night when 17-year-old Caeleb Dressel turned in a stunning 18.94 relay leadoff for the Bolles School’s 200-yard freestyle relay last night at the USA Swimming Winter Junior Nationals.<\/p>\n
Now, you can watch the swim as many times as you’d like! Here’s the amazing video: <\/p>\n
Bolles’ Caeleb Dressel demonstrated just how transcendent of an 18-and-under sprinter he is as he became the first age group ever to break 19 seconds in the 50-yard free at the USA Swimming Winter Junior Nationals. <\/p>\n
Dressel, a future Florida Gator, blew the top off the Greensboro Aquatic Center with a sizzling time of 18.94 as the Bolles’ relay leadoff. That performance beat a pair of 19.29s from Dressel, including one this morning to tie his own 17-18 U.S. National Age Group record. Dressel now stands 15th all time in the history of the event, and is one of just 20 men to ever have broken 19. <\/p>\n
Incredibly, that time would have placed him second only to the Sizzling Siberian Vlad Morozov at this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Championships. Morozov (18.63) and Auburn’s Marcelo Chierighini (18.99) were the only sub-19s in the individual event in March. <\/p>\n
The rest of the Bolles squad can’t be forgotten as Dressel (18.94), Josh Booth (20.00), Arthur Pace (20.30) and William McKinney (20.03) threw down a 1:19:27. Booth, however, is an international swimmer and thus the time does not count as a NAG. <\/p>\n
Scottsdale’s Ryan Hoffer (19.54), Nicholas Magana (19.77), Joseph Starkweather (20.59) and Jack Blake (19.66), however, did take down a NAG with a second-place 1:19.56. The 15-18 year old foursome beat the 15-18 U.S. NAG for the 200-yard freestyle previously held by SwimMAC’s Matt Josa, Michael Chadwick, Jack Manchester and Kyle Darmody who clocked a 1:20.44 in 2012. <\/p>\n
Hoffer, just 15, also took down a NAG of his own as his leadoff beat Dressel’s 15-16 mark of 19.82 set in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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