New England Swimming
Long Course Open Championship
July 27-30, 2006
Zesiger Center, MIT, Cambridge MA
Sanctioned by: New England Swimming, Inc. NE-06-61 NE-06-61TT
Thursday
Best times: Clarke Madigan 800 free (9:17) and 100 free (59.7); Barry Su 100 Breast (1:22.7).
Friday
Kristyn Roth had 2 season bests today in the 200 free (2:21) and 100 fly (1:12). Patrick O'Neal dropped 4 seconds, from his Dover time, in his 200 free (2:17). Clarke Madigan, who just made the 400IM in Dover in a time trial, chopped 3 more seconds off that time (5:07) and then, qualifying 20th in the morning, swam a 5:06 at night. Our relays did a spectacular job too! Girls 400M free relay dropped 4 seconds from their seed time: Kristyn Roth (1:03), Jess Perry (1:04), Shelby Rader (1:10), Kaitlin Buckley (1:07) for a 4:26. Boys 400M free relay dropped 10 seconds from their seed time: Clarke Madigan (59), Pat O'Neal (1:04), Brian Keane (1:00) Drew Husted (1:01) (his best time is a 1:06!!!!)
Saturday
Kristyn Roth dropped half a second off her 100 back time from last weekend in Buffalo (1:11.2). Patrick O'Neal dropped half a second off his 100 back (1:14.2). Barry Su dropped 3 seconds off his 100 back (1:13.3). Clarke Madigan dropped a few fractions of a second off his 100 back in 1:03.7, placing him 8th in New England in that event. Patrick O'Neal dropped 4 seconds from his 400M free (4:55). In a time trial, Barry Su dropped 2 seconds from his 100 free (1:06).
Sunday
Kristyn Roth dropped 3 seconds from her personal best in the 200 back, finishing in 2:38. Clarke Madigan sliced 2 seconds off his personal best time in the 200 back, cruising to a 2:17, placing him 7th in New England in that event. Drew Husted dropped 1.5 seconds in his 50M free, going a speedy 28.2. Barry Su clipped 4 seconds from his best 200M breast, clocking a 3:03. Then, in the swim of the day, Clarke Madigan demolished his personal best in the 1500M free. He took 35 seconds off his best, finishing in 17:45, and holding 1:10s and 1:11s. Our 400 Medley Relay team of Clarke (1:05), Barry (1:21), Brian Keane (1:06), and Drew (1:02) wrapped up the meet in style for us, finishing in 4:35. Brian's split on that relay was 2 seconds better than his best 100 fly.