The Boys Are Back In Town

There were two team new records set at this week's A meet -- Cameron Morey broke a one year old backstroke record set by Guy Leyden, and the Mixed Age Boys relay broke a 45 year old record set back 1967.

Yes, you read that right -- 1967, the Summer of Love, the hippies chants of "Hey, Hey LBJ, how many relay records did you break today?" and Super Bowl I -- before it was even called the Super Bowl.

Cameron's swim took nearly one second (0.99) off the record -- see the Swimmer of the Week article below. 

Cameron sets the Gator backstroke record.

These two records, combined with one last week and the promise of more to be broken this year, declares that the boys records are no longer the afterthought of the Gator swim team.  There is no question the boys side of the team has gotten significantly better over the last couple of seasons.

This is what knocking a 45 year old

record out of the books looks like.

The Mixed Age boys cut it much closer -- knocking off the old record by 0.10 seconds.  The team of Cameron Morey (12), Nick Dupuis (10), Kevin Adams-Mardi (14) and Cyrus Adams-Mardi (16) swam a 2:01.50 in the 200 free relay.  This was their second straight relay win this season, which is the first since. . .well, I don't even know.

Cyrus, Cameron, Nick, and Kevin. . .

about to make Gator history.

The old record was 2:01.60 was set by J Turner, D Rayner, L. Parsons, and Bill Richardson in 1967.  This was the oldest dual meet relay record on the books for MVP.