{"id":534807,"date":"2023-08-03T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=534807"},"modified":"2023-08-03T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T02:20:21","slug":"luka-mijatovic-breaks-third-nag-record-of-junior-nationals-mission-viejo-lakeside-break-relay-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/luka-mijatovic-breaks-third-nag-record-of-junior-nationals-mission-viejo-lakeside-break-relay-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Mijatovic Breaks Third NAG Record of Junior Nationals; Mission Viejo, Lakeside Break Relay Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luka Mijatovic Breaks Third NAG Record of Junior Nationals; Mission Viejo, Lakeside Break Relay Marks<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the third time this week at Junior Nationals,\u00a0Luka Mijatovic<\/strong> has knocked off a National Age Group record. This time, it was one of his own marks. Mitajovic won the 200 freestyle B-final in 1:50.40, beating the previous 13-14 boys’ record of 1:50.60 he achieved at U.S. Nationals last month.<\/p>\n

Previously, Mijatovic broke the oldest National Age Group record on the books with his 15:27.38 in the 1500 free<\/a>, and then he swam a time of 3:52.01 in the 400 free<\/a> to knock more than one second off his previous NAG-record time of 3:53.13 set at Nationals. Mijatovic placed third in both of the longer events.<\/p>\n

Later in the night, another NAG record went down in the girls’ 400 freestyle relay as the Mission Viejo Nadadores beat the 15-18 national mark and meet mark in a winning effort.\u00a0Teagan O’Dell<\/strong>, a winner earlier in the evening in the 100 backstroke, gave way to\u00a0Asia Kozan<\/strong>,\u00a0Gracyn Aquino<\/strong> and\u00a0Tei Salvino<\/strong>. The swimmers posted a time of 3:44.10 to beat the NAG record of 3:44.85 set by Carmel’s team of Veronica Burchill<\/strong>,\u00a0Claire Adams<\/strong>,\u00a0Emma Nordin<\/strong> and\u00a0Amy Bilquist<\/strong> in 2015 as well as the 2014 meet record from Carmel’s\u00a0Rachel Hayden<\/strong>, Burchill, Adams and Bilquist.<\/p>\n

While Carmel lost a pair of records in this race, this year’s Carmel team put forth an exceptional effort to beat both previous records.\u00a0Alex Shackell<\/strong>,\u00a0Berit Berglund<\/strong>,\u00a0Molly Sweeney<\/strong> and\u00a0Lynsey Bowen<\/strong> combined to finish in 3:44.69, just over a half-second behind Mission Viejo.<\/p>\n

Shackell, a member of the World Championships team that anchored the U.S. women’s 800 free relay to silver, led off in a brilliant 54.08, beating her previous best time of 54.22 from U.S. Nationals. After qualifying for Fukuoka in one freestyle relay, the 16-year-old could be in contention for a spot on the Olympic team in the shorter relay one year from now.<\/p>\n

Finally, Lakeside Aquatic Club took down a record in the boys’ 400 free relay, with\u00a0Maximus Wiliamson<\/strong>,\u00a0Cooper Lucas<\/strong>,\u00a0River Paulk<\/strong> and\u00a0Keaton Rice<\/strong> winning in 3:20.09, crushing the 15-18 NAG record of 3:21.91 set by SwimMAC Carolina two years ago. Lakeside also annihilated the meet record of 3:24.62 that Indiana swam in 2014. Williamson provided a scintillating leadoff at 48.84, under his best time of 48.91 recorded in a 14th-place finish at U.S. Nationals.<\/p>\n