Five Gator Team Records Smacked Down

Two were only five days old, one was seven days old, while another was from 2003, and one was from recently, but I'm not sure when.  They were five Gator records, and they were rewritten at the Divisional Championship meet.

Eleven years ago, when the team's now-18 year olds would have been just seven years old, 14 year old Brendan Haley swam a 29.70 50 fly.  Cameron Morey lowered that mark by 0.45 seconds to a stellar 29.25.  

But Cameron was not done.  When the Individual Medley rolled around, he threw five day old record of 1:09.65 in the trash by swimming a stellar 1:07.92, knocking 1.73 off that mark.

In the season-long battle of the Kevin Adams-Mardis, Kevin got revenge on Kevin by once again taking back the records Kevin took from him last week.  With last week's Kevin swimming it in a 32.15, this week's Kevin had a fast task ahead of him to get back into the record book -- and he did with a 31.60.  Each Kevin has broke the record twice this season, which means someone named Kevin Adams-Mardi has lowered it a total of four times -- from the 1989 Gator mark of 33.85.  A Kevin Adams-Mardi has busted the record three Saturdays in a row, which can only mean one thing -- Kevin keeps getting faster (that's the kind of expert analysis my beloved readers turn to this blog for, isn't it?).

This week's Kevin wasn't done breaking last week's Kevin's records (following all this?  Neither am I!). After last week's Kevin swam a record breaking 1:03.42, this week's Kevin lowered the mark by 0.71, swimming a 1:02.71.  Old record-holding Kevin has one last chance this season to get back at new record-holding Kevin on Saturday at All-Stars.

Sara Bertram also broke her 15-18 girls back record, Swimming 0.41 seconds faster than her old record, Sara covered the 50 meters in 30.56.