Gator fans were stunned yesterday by Cassidy Bayer. Not that she broke the girls 15-18 freestyle, breaststroke, and butterfly records her first time eligible to set them. That was expected. After all, her team records as a 13-14 year old were all faster than the now broken 15-18 year old records.
(Cassidy's records for 11-12 freestyle and butterfly are faster than the 15-18 records she broke yesterday! Apparently she was a real slacker as a 9-10 year old!)
No, Gator fans weren't stunned by those records. They were stunned that she didn't break the backstroke team record -- at least until it was pointed out to them that since she didn't swim backstroke, it was technically impossible for her to break the record. As the logic of that point dawned on them, they became less stunned.
Cassidy started rewriting the team record books in freestyle, swimming a 26.99, to smash Christine Rholl's 28.11 record set at All-Stars in 2010.
The backstroke record set by Sara Bertram in 2014 remains safe at least one more week.
In breaststroke, Cassidy's 35.27 lowered Ryann Doyle's 2003 mark of 38.25 by a stunning 2.98 seconds. It's also the fastest breaststroke swim ever swum by a Gator girl.
In the last race of Time Trials, Cassidy went a 28.46 in butterfly, knocking Sara Bertram's 2013 record of 29.47 out of the books.
Cassidy now has 18 of the possible 24 individual girls records. She has four years to break two more. Only four records (three breaststroke and one Individual Medley) can not have Cassidy's name on them.
In near-record news, James Piland is only 0.06 seconds off of the 9-10 boys butterfly record from 1974! Let's hope James breaks it!
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