This past weekend, Kate Ziegler took a major step to being one of the premium distance swimmers in the World. She broke the Janet Evans American Record of 4:34.39 in the 500 Free which was set back in 1990 at the Women's NCAA meet. She broke Janet Evans National HS record of 4:37.30 by almost 4 seconds. Last year Kate Ziegler went 4:37.67 in the 500 Free, so the HS record really wasn't a suprise. I believe the American Record was and this is a major breakthru swim for Kate Ziegler.
She also tied the 200 Free National HS Record at 1:45.49 which was almost as impressive as the 500 Free. Sippy Woodhead went 1:44.10 in the 200 Free in the 10th grade, but did not do that time in a HS meet. In HS she went 1:45.98, which was the record until a couple of years ago.
You hardly ever see swimmers in HS break American Records. I remember when Mark Spitz in 1967/1968 had 3 American Records and tied another. His :49.1 in the 100 Yard Fly was his most impressive and that HS record stood for 12 years. Some other impressive HS was Jeff Kostoff, 1983, 500 Free record which is still on the HS books at 4:16.39 and he broke the American Record by .01 which was held by Brian Goodell.
Another impressive HS record was one performed by Andy Coan in 1975, going :43.99 and breaking the HS of Joe Bottom of :45.00 and that was also an American Record. Another impressive HS record was one performed by John Kinsella in 1970. In those days HS swimmers swam the 400 Yard Free and not the 500 Free and I believe the HS federation switched in 1974/1975 to the 500 Free. He broke the HS record of 3:38.00 by Mark Spitz and took it down to 3:31.05 in 1970. What's impressive about that is that the NCAA Champion that year went a 4:33 in the 500 and his time converted to a 500 would have been in the 4:24 to 4:25 range. He set the American Record at 4:27 and won the AAU Nationals in 1970 as a senior in HS.
Could this be the start of Janet Evans 18 year old records being broken? It will be interesting to see if the 4:03, the 8:16, and the 15:52 World Records get broken at some international meets in the next year.
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Laure Mandadou (spelling?) broke the 400 record this summer ...
I am well aware of that. If you notice in the first sentence I made reference to American Record and not World Record. Janet still has all of the American Records and both the 800 and 1500 Free World Records. You are correct about the broken 400 Free LCM record.
I am well aware of that. If you notice in the first sentence I made reference to American Record and not World Record. Janet still has all of the American Records and both the 800 and 1500 Free World Records. You are correct about the broken 400 Free LCM record.
Relax ... I was just clarifying ...
She just swam a 4:34.0 in the 500 free tonight at the Dolan meet. It was a treat to watch her. She got a huge ovation. My daughter's coach made her counts Kate's SPL. It was 17 every single length. Quite a high stroke rate for some one who's, I think, 6'2". I think she has great long course potential because she has great rhythm and her turns, while very good, were not perfect. She also, as others probably know, does "cross train" by regularly going to PT to keep her shoulders and other stuff together. She's swimming the 1000 tomorrow.
She just swam a 4:34.0 in the 500 free tonight at the Dolan meet. It was a treat to watch her. She got a huge ovation. My daughter's coach made her counts Kate's SPL. It was 17 every single length. Quite a high stroke rate for some one who's, I think, 6'2". I think she has great long course potential because she has great rhythm and her turns, while very good, were not perfect. She also, as others probably know, does "cross train" by regularly going to PT to keep her shoulders and other stuff together. She's swimming the 1000 tomorrow.
This reinforces my belief that SPL is an often over used analysis of a swimmer. Surely if her SPL was 22 she would not be the swimmer she is but I think that a persons overall performance is a much better indicator as to whether they are doing things "right" or not.
I couldn't have said that better, scyfreestyler!!! This kind of reminds me of people who "go by charts" rather than actual performance based results. So when swimmers come around and swim outside of the "norm" or "chart", some people then decide that this is now the "best new way" and, once again, things get changed up.
Kinda similar to how the health people say this food is good for you, then years later, it is actually bad for you, and on and on, thus confusing everyone about what they should eat/not eat :blah::blah::blah:.
Kate is fast and she is large, I am impressed.
Donna
Kate Zeigler did it again! She smashed her own American Record in the 1000 free by over three seconds, swimming to a 9:21.55! (Previous record 9:24.80.) :banana:
Here are her splits (hope I wrote them down and typed them correctly).
They will be on the www.pvswim.org website tomorrow morning if you want to check.
53.43
1:49.74
2:46.28
3:42.90
4:39.48
5:36.19
6:33.66
7:30.66
8:27.26
9:21.57.
She also broke the pool record in the 100 free with a 49.78. I would note that the 16 year old who placed second with a 51.25 was only 5'2" tall and very petite.
Our other local hero, Tom Koucheravy (PanPac team member) swam to a 15:01.71 in the 1650 free, breaking his own pool record.
All the fastest swimmers in fly and back spent a lot of time underwater SDK-ing. Some 14 year kid swam a 47.4 in the 100 free. What a fast meet!!!
