Gator girls set new NVSL record, two other team records fall, two new marks established!

Emma Jones contributing to the cyclone.

Outlined against a blue-gray July sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Cassidy Bayer, Holly Jansen, Emma Jones and Elaina Phalen. They formed the crest of the Gator cyclone before which another NVSL record was swept over the precipice at Mosby Woods last Wednesday as hundreds of spectators peered down upon the record-breaking panorama spread out upon the blue waters within.*
The fearsome foursome beat the old record by 0.08, swimming a 1:01.83.  The old record was set by Division One powerhouse Overlee 19 years ago in 1993!  The Gator four also broke their own four day old team record by exactly one second. 

Because the rules for eligibility for Relay Carnival and A Meets are different, the NVSL recognizes two sets of relay records.  Having gunned down the faster Relay Carnival record, the 11-12 girls have a real shot on Saturday of breaking the slower A Meet record of 1:02.21.

Cameron Morey helps smash a record.

The next biggest record was set by the 11-12 boys free relay.  The team of Cameron Morey, Sean Jansen, Sam McBroom, and Dom Heratsch swam a 1:00.78, shattering the old record by 0.11.  The old mark was 23 years old (from 1989!) and was set by Karl Gron, Lance Wormell, Craig Dufek, and Kirk Myers.

The 11-12 girls free relay also set a new team record, swimming a 56.55, breaking the two year old record by a healthy 1.22 seconds.  The old mark was held by Torie Bolger, Molly Cabral, Anna Fracasso, and Emily Walzl.

The new team marks were set by the 8 & under medley relay teams -- because this is the first time those events have ever been swum in the NVSL (up till this year, it had been a modified medley of back, breaststroke, free and free.  With 8 & under fly now in the A meets, the modified medley was modified to a true medley for 8 & unders.)

Ringing in a record.

The two new records:

• 8 and under Girls 100 meter medley: Cage Theriot, Juliette Fore, Emily Makin, Cecilia Morales - 1:30.31.
• 8 and under Boys 100 meter medley: Kenny Krogh, Will Friedman, Charlie Ruppe, James Piland--1:39.62.

Congrats to all the new record holders!

* For those readers who think I've flipped my lid, I haven't.  Extra points to readers who know that I blatantly ripped off what is probably the greatest sports lede of all time.  So I borrowed -- but in this context, you gotta admit it is pretty cool!  (Google "outlined against a blue-gray October sky" if you don't catch the reference.)