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2016 Georgia Age Group State Championships – Day 2 PRELIM RESULTS

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Bailey

# 29 (d2/s4): G 14U 200 Medley Relay (1:59.25Y ) - 9 – Bailey’s strong fly from the first day got here into this relay. Unfortunately, we weren’t made aware in advance and we didn’t see her actually race this one (we were watching the 14U boys at that time). The results indicate Bailey’s 50 split was a strong 28.12, so she must have done pretty well. All in all the team came in at 1:55.49, 3.76 seconds under their seed time.

# 49A (d2/s4): G 13-13 400 Medley (5:00.18Y ) - 43 / 18 – Bailey started this out with what for her was a very conservative fly leg, finishing in 1:04.79…I would have expected something in the 1:02 high or 1:03 low range. Her back was a 1:14 high, and her breast, while not great was under 1:30…in the free Bailey actually came from behind to pass a couple of people, which is something we haven’t seen much of recently. She finished the free leg in a 1:06.60, much better than she’s done in a while. She ended up with a personal best time of 4:55.19. She also climbed all the way to 12th for 13 year olds.

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Bear

# 34A (d2/s4): B 13-13 200 Free (1:57.43Y ) - 35 / 8 – There was no hangover from the 1000 on day 1, as Bear posted a Personal Best 1:52.78, to open day 2. That’s a drop of 5.28 seconds, and it earned him a spot in finals that night.

# 50A (d2/s4): B 13-13 400 Medley (4:42.92Y ) - 35 / 4 – after Bear’s strong 200 IM on day 1 (especially his improved breast), I was interested to see how this would play out. He was out strong with a 1:02.00 fly leg, followed by a very good 1:09 low back. In his heat, he was swimming against 3 teammates. Two 14 year olds from another pool, and Nicklas, who is an exceptional natural swimmer that is in Bear’s training group. After the fly leg, Bear was well back of the two older boys, and after the back leg, Bear was 4th. However, in the Breast things changed. Bear managed a 1:18.95 split with both 50s under 40 seconds. This effort looked much more like Brett than the Bear of old. Bear passed both of the older boys and basically hit the wall for the free leg in a dead heat with Nicklas. Once the Free started, it was no contest. Nicklas even said, “We started the free, and I looked over and Bear was gone. I was like, ‘What just happened?’”. Bear’s free leg was a 58.81, and his total time ended up at 4:28.92. That was good enough to win the heat, and for him to finish 2nd out of all the 13 year olds