Joseph Schooling of the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida has broken the National Independent and overall high school records in the finals of the 2013 FHSAA High School State Championship meet.
Schooling was a 45.52 in finals, winning the race by over four seconds. That broke his 45.90 set in prelims as the Independent High School record, and the 45.89 that his club teammate Caeleb Dressel set at the mid-season FSPA Invitational (that remains the public school record).
| Joseph Schooling | Prelims | 21.45 | 24.45 | 45.90 |
| Caeleb Dressel | FSPA | 21.6 | 24.29 | 45.89 |
| Joseph Schooling | Finals | 21.23 | 24.29 | 45.52 |
Schooling also split a 20.16 on the fly leg of the 200 medley relay. He has still to swim in the 200 and 400 free relays.
I thought Schooling is still a Singapore national?
Can a foreigner breaks US national record officially?
aswimfan – high school swimming is not run by USA Swimming. They can accept swims from high school meets as official results if they so choose (and usually do, given certain standards, like dually-certified officials), but the “high school” part of his record has no restrictions on nationality, other than so long as they’re competing at and meet the other eligibility requirements for doing so in a high school meet.
Short answer: a foreigner can break a US National High School Record. They’re effectively “open” records.
Ach so. Thanks for explaining it.
Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXXdQsFnX8
Great performance. I had predicted 45 low. And I see in his interview it was his goal too! 🙂
45.52 is still very impressive!
Congrats to him.
Too bad he didn’t break 20 in the 50 relay split 😛
I guess he’ll just have to wait till his freshman year of Uni