2024 COLUMBUS SECTIONALS
- July 18-21, 2024
- Columbus, Ohio
- McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion at Ohio State University
- LCM (50 meters)
- Results on MeetMobile: “2024OH CZ East Speedo Sectionals”
- Day 1 Recap
- Day 2 Recap
During Saturday’s time trials session at the 2024 Columbus Sectionals, a team from Central Ohio Aquatics combined for 1:33.29 in the 200 free relay to set a new National Age Group Record.
The team of Austin Carpenter (23.21), Jacob Lloyd (22.91), Alex Wu (23.69), and Bradley King (23.48) combined for a 1:33.29. That breaks the old record of 1:33.38 that was set in 2017 by the Allegheny North Swim Club.
Splits Comparison:
| New NAG Record |
Old NAG Record
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| Central Ohio Aquatics | Allegheny North | |
| 1st leg | Carpenter – 23.21 |
Mason Gonzalez – 23.40
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| 2nd leg | Lloyd – 22.91 |
Jack Wright – 23.32
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| 3rd leg | Wu – 23.69 |
Andrew Zhang – 23.55
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| 4th leg | King – 23.48 |
Richard Mihm – 23.11
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| Total Time | 1:33.29 | 1:33.38 |
The last three legs of this relay all went significantly faster than their flat-start bests coming into the meet. Lloyd’s best was 23.84; Wu’s is 25.18; and King’s is 24.02. Lloyd swam 23.61 for 6th in the individual 50 earlier this week.
Earlier this year, the same quartet from Central Ohio Aquatics also set the short course yards record in the 200 free relay, swimming 1:21.75 at the Tim Myers Memorial Ohio Senior Championship.
The Lakeside Aquatic Club retains the broader 15-18 record with their 1:31.09 from last year’s Junior Nationals.
Should a time trial relay time really count for an NAG record? It’s flat water with no exchange distractions.
In my opinion, time trials shouldn’t count for much, but nobody asks my opinion and the rules are what the rules are.
I think it’s a loophole that would be tough to close. Have 2 other teams enter, call it a “real meet,” and have both of those other teams no-show the heat.
Yes, that’s my understanding of the rule as well as far as time trials.
if the team that breaks the record in a real meet with a crowded pool doesn’t want to redo the relay in a time trial and be potentially faster then that’s on them. They had a chance, didn’t take it.
There’s almost no opportunities to do LCM 200 relays. At all sectional and future meets they only have 400s and the 800. They don’t really have much of a choice.
That would insinuate we need to get rid of last chance meets that allow swimmers to qualify for higher level meets. It’s the same if an ncaa swimmer is bumped out bc their conference time is bested by 0.01 from a swimmer’s last chance time trial.
How technical/limited do we want to be with this?
I say these kids earned it fair & square, based on the current rules.
I’m not a big fan of last chance meets, especially when someone races a single event 4 times (with nothing on the line so can really push start and 15 meters) to bump out someone with a later conference meet.
But that’s an argument for changing the rules, not against taking advantage of them!
They time trialed it as one of the members of the relay wasn’t going to be at the meet on the day the relay was going to be competed.
Way to go boys!!! It’s great to see this group growing up as friends training together for a long time and continuing to achieve.
St Charles 4Life