YMCA Nationals

YMCA Nationals are going on all week. They started today, sorry for not posting a preview, been mui busy these days.

First and foremost, you can watch the YMCA Nationals on www.Swimnetwork.com.

or better yet http://www.swimnetwork.com/videos/v/20090331/get_ready_for_y_nats_-16371.html

Secondly, YMCA appears to be the ONLY non-scholastic enlightened program that combines swimming and diving in one event BESIDES mayeb the Olympics, so KUDOS to them for doing that.

Day 1 saw:

A new record in the Women's 100 BK

1 Margo Geer 17 Springfield Family YMCA 54.66 54.19*
26.41 54.19 (27.78)

A 15 year old beating out the older kids in the Women's 500 YD FR

Final
1 Haley Lips 15 Middle Tyger YMCA 4:47.25 4:45.73
26.68 54.88 (28.20) 1:23.45 (28.57) 1:52.32 (28.87)
2:21.43 (29.11) 2:50.50 (29.07) 3:19.17 (28.67) 3:48.08 (28.91)
4:17.06 (28.98) 4:45.73 (28.67)

A pair of Florida guys going 1 - 2 in the Men's 500 FR out of 77 entrants:

A - Final
1 Patrick Ceddia 17 Sarasota Family YMCA, Inc 4:28.18 4:24.73
24.53 51.24 (26.71) 1:18.04 (26.80) 1:44.96 (26.92)
2:12.01 (27.05) 2:38.70 (26.69) 3:05.29 (26.59) 3:31.70 (26.41)
3:58.49 (26.79) 4:24.73 (26.24)

2 John Orban 18 Sarasota Family YMCA, Inc 4:31.27 4:26.87
24.79 51.67 (26.88) 1:18.60 (26.93) 1:45.21 (26.61)
2:11.95 (26.74) 2:38.78 (26.83) 3:06.01 (27.23) 3:33.10 (27.09)
4:00.39 (27.29) 4:26.87 (26.48)

The Women's 200IM winner (from that same Sarasota FL club) missed out on a National record by 0.03 sec! Bummer

1 Corinne Showalter 18 Sarasota Family YMCA, Inc 2:02.09 2:00.26
26.75 56.63 (29.88) 1:31.94 (35.31) 2:00.26 (28.32)

On the other hand, the Men's 200IM got a new record by 0.01!

1 Woody Joye 17 Montgomery -East Branch YMCA 1:48.15 1:47.09 *
22.82 49.29 (26.47) 1:22.23 (32.94) 1:47.09 (24.86)

The winner of the Women's 100BK (inrecord time) ALSO won teh 50 FR in record time!!!

1 Margo Geer 17 Springfield Family YMCA 22.78 22.68*

The Men's 200 Med RLY saw a new record set by our friends across the border at the Schroeder Aquatic Center by Milwaukee:

1 Schroeder YMCA 1:32.35 1:30.91 *
1) Mitchell Friedemann 16 2) William Colbert 17 3) Francisco Vital 17 4) Graham Charlton 17
22.87 47.34 (24.47) 1:09.81 (22.47) 1:30.91 (21.10)

In case you want to look yourself:
http://www.ymcaswimminganddiving.org/2009SC/Results/MondayFullResults.pdf