Ziegler Downs Another Evans American Record, Breaks 1650 Yard Free Standard

FAIRFAX, Virginia, December 8. ACCORDING to news out of George Mason University, distance superstar Kate Ziegler took down Janet Evans' 1650-yard freestyle American record last night at the Tom Dolan Invitational.

Ziegler hit the wall in 15:37.17, eclipsing the previous 16-year-old standard of 15:39.14 set by Janet Evans on March 17, 1990 in Austin, Texas at the NCAA Championships. The time also set the 17-18 National Age Group and U.S. Open record.

Ziegler now owns all three yard records previously held by Janet Evans. She set the 1000-yard free standard last December at the Tom Dolan Invite and the 500-yard free record in February of this year at the Washington Metropolitan Championships in Germantown, Md.

Here are her splits:
1 Ziegler, Kate 18 FISH 15:40.89 15:37.17 20
25.96 53.62 (27.66) 1:21.65 (28.03) 1:49.89 (28.24)
2:18.14 (28.25) 2:46.66 (28.52) 3:15.40 (28.74) 3:44.00 (28.60)
4:12.47 (28.47) 4:40.84 (28.37) 5:09.29 (28.45) 5:37.96 (28.67)
6:06.61 (28.65) 6:35.19 (28.58) 7:04.15 (28.96) 7:32.98 (28.83)
8:01.88 (28.90) 8:30.56 (28.68) 8:59.25 (28.69) 9:27.32 (28.07)
9:55.59 (28.27) 10:24.07 (28.48) 10:52.68 (28.61) 11:21.38 (28.70)
11:50.25 (28.87) 12:18.98 (28.73) 12:47.51 (28.53) 13:16.49 (28.98)
13:45.20 (28.71) 14:13.74 (28.54) 14:41.73 (27.99) 15:10.41 (28.68)
15:37.17 (26.76)

Special thanks to John Hirschmann for contributing to this report.

2006 Tom Dolan Invitational – (12-07-2006 – 12-10-2006)

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