NCAP 18-year old Andrew Seliskar is on a tear, and has broken his 2nd National Age Group Record in the 200 yard breaststroke on Saturday at the Patomac Valley LSC Senior Champs meet at George Mason University.
Seliskar swam a 1:51.57 in the final to not only win by almost ten seconds, but it also broke his own (official) National Age Group Record of 1:52.21 in the event.
The previous fastest swim by a 17-18 in the race actually belonged to Kevin Cordes, who was 1:51.97 in 2012, but USA Swimming hasn’t recognized that race as a National Age Group Record, having in the past referencing Cordes’ lack of membership at the time of his swim.
Regardless, Seliskar has cleared up the confusion and now holds the record outright.
The swim for Seliskar moves him from 17th in the all-time, any age rankings all the way up to 5th, just ahead of National Teamer Nic Fink.
Seliskar took his race out in 54.15, which is actually faster than anybody aside from himself swam the 100 breaststroke in that race’s event final. He then closed in 57.4 to hammer home the record.
On Friday, in a timed final, Seliskar broke Chase Kalisz’s National Age Group Record in the 400 IM with a 3:37.52.
Meanwhile, further down Highway 81 in Christiansburg, at the Virginia Swimming Sr. Championships, America’s #2 recruit, Townley Haas, NOVA of Virginia Aquatic, took a break in conditioning for the weekend by winning five individual State Titles in 50, 100, 200, 500 & 1000 Freestyles. He also participated in winning the 200 Free, 400 Free and 800 Free Relays. His only setbacks from a complete sweep of firsts were taking 2nd in the 400 Medley Relay and a lousy 5th place finish in 100 Fly…………oh, and high point for the Men with 114 points……..not bad for unrested………..We can’t wait to see what he does in Orlando……….
Haas is outstanding – do you have times or a link for this meet?
http://virginiaswimming.org/vsiresults/SC_Senior_Champs/index.htm
Seliskar’s 500 wasn’t as newsworthy, but 4:16.17 is still impressive. Here’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t54jQP-zEJQ&feature=youtu.be
It’s crazy how a 4:16 by a high schooler is apparently no longer newsworthy. What is this crazyness? We are seeing swimming evolve before our very eyes.
Not counting Phelps for obvious reasons, we’re on a 5 year streak of “best hs recruit ever”. ..
Nolan
Murphy
Conger
Dresser
Seliskar
I think Seliskar is safe for at least a year. But WOW.
Here’s the video I shot of Seliskar’s 200 breast tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUz1enSYvCU&feature=youtu.be
Awesome video! He looked really smooth the first 100, and kicked the turnover up in the last 100, while still maintaining an awesome DPS. I think his stroke count went 3-4-4-4-5-5-5-6. Additionally, he gets ridiculously far on his pullouts. He’s a true wonder of age-group swimming, and will be a great fill-in to the post-Cordes NCAA scene.
Thanks, that was good quality.
Andrew Seliskar will be the King in 2020….
next to Jeremy Young
I think you mean he came back with a 57.4.
well not the 1:50 I predicted but still very impressive!