These times are amazing:
Kyle van Niekerk - 13 year old!
His results were as follows:
100m Free: Gold in a winning time of 53.89 – New African and South African AG Record
50m Free: Gold in a winning time of 24.69 – a New African and South African AG Record and the fastest recorded time in the world for 13- year- olds during 2011.
Yes these are long course meters. Puts it all in perspective for us geezers :cane:
Skip, I thought you told me once that Phil Dodson and some of his teammates made the cover of Swimming World when their high school 800 free relay time was the fastest in the nation, or something like that. Were they just swimming it in an AAU meet?
PS Congratulations on a sensational hour swim! I was looking forward to aging up, but it never seems to get any easier. Are you fellows juicing?
The Hinsdale High School Relay was on the cover of the February 1969 issue of Swimming World. In those days before the internet, they used to post the fastest times in the nation for HS events. John Kinsella and Mark Lambert had already gone low 1:44 in the 200 Free that season and they were ranked 1-2 at that point. With Gary Ferraro and Phil Dodson, there times added up to 7:10 and the comment was that would be a good 800 Free time for that time of the year of a Division I College Program.
They did not have an 800 Free Relay but those 4 swimmers went 3:09.9 in the 400 Free Relay to be 1st in the nation in 1970. Taper and rested I believe they would have been close to under 7 minutes they way they swam the individual event 200 Free with these four swimmers in 1970. In 1969, Mark Lambert and Phil Dodson were sophomores and Gary Ferraro and John Kinsella were juniors. The article said they can only get faster in the future and they did. Don Watson was the HS coach and he had one of the best if not the best HS team in the nation along with Santa Clara HS.
Interesting is the time they did at 3:09.9 in the 400 Free was 3 seconds from the High School National Record of 3:06.8 by Santa Clara HS in 1967 and that relay team had Jamison, Eagleston, Haywood, and Spitz. All those guys were All American sprinters except Spitz who was All American in everything except the 100 ***. That relay at the time was considered by many including myself to be the greatest HS Free Relay ever. That time broke the NCAA Record and American Record of 3:07.2 by Yale that was set in 1965. They didn't have the record long because Stanford went a 3:04.9 at the 1967 NCAA Championships. The Santa Clara relay would have been 4th that year behind Yale at 2nd, and USC at 3rd. I don't believe there has ever been a HS relay that has placed that high since. The Hindsdale Relay was probably better at the 800 distance and its to bad they didn't swim this the same time they swam the 3:09.9.
The Hour Swim was an improvement this year from last year and two years ago I went 125 more but I wore the B70 and so I think this swim was better. I juice every once in a while especially with carrots and if I had a diet with more vegetable juicing I would be lighter and faster. As you know your old college teammate, Larry Day does not need to do these things because he is naturally fast.
Skip, I thought you told me once that Phil Dodson and some of his teammates made the cover of Swimming World when their high school 800 free relay time was the fastest in the nation, or something like that. Were they just swimming it in an AAU meet?
PS Congratulations on a sensational hour swim! I was looking forward to aging up, but it never seems to get any easier. Are you fellows juicing?
The Hinsdale High School Relay was on the cover of the February 1969 issue of Swimming World. In those days before the internet, they used to post the fastest times in the nation for HS events. John Kinsella and Mark Lambert had already gone low 1:44 in the 200 Free that season and they were ranked 1-2 at that point. With Gary Ferraro and Phil Dodson, there times added up to 7:10 and the comment was that would be a good 800 Free time for that time of the year of a Division I College Program.
They did not have an 800 Free Relay but those 4 swimmers went 3:09.9 in the 400 Free Relay to be 1st in the nation in 1970. Taper and rested I believe they would have been close to under 7 minutes they way they swam the individual event 200 Free with these four swimmers in 1970. In 1969, Mark Lambert and Phil Dodson were sophomores and Gary Ferraro and John Kinsella were juniors. The article said they can only get faster in the future and they did. Don Watson was the HS coach and he had one of the best if not the best HS team in the nation along with Santa Clara HS.
Interesting is the time they did at 3:09.9 in the 400 Free was 3 seconds from the High School National Record of 3:06.8 by Santa Clara HS in 1967 and that relay team had Jamison, Eagleston, Haywood, and Spitz. All those guys were All American sprinters except Spitz who was All American in everything except the 100 ***. That relay at the time was considered by many including myself to be the greatest HS Free Relay ever. That time broke the NCAA Record and American Record of 3:07.2 by Yale that was set in 1965. They didn't have the record long because Stanford went a 3:04.9 at the 1967 NCAA Championships. The Santa Clara relay would have been 4th that year behind Yale at 2nd, and USC at 3rd. I don't believe there has ever been a HS relay that has placed that high since. The Hindsdale Relay was probably better at the 800 distance and its to bad they didn't swim this the same time they swam the 3:09.9.
The Hour Swim was an improvement this year from last year and two years ago I went 125 more but I wore the B70 and so I think this swim was better. I juice every once in a while especially with carrots and if I had a diet with more vegetable juicing I would be lighter and faster. As you know your old college teammate, Larry Day does not need to do these things because he is naturally fast.
