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Aug 12: Highlights from the
2009 USA Swimming Speedo Junior Nationals, Federal Way, WA.
Neil O’Halloran finished in a 1st place
tie today in the Mens 100 Butterfly, with a new
Jr. National meet record time of 53.31. This time is
also a new 15-16 OSI State record and new
Thunderbolt team record. Neil breaks his own record (53.66),
set earlier this month.
 See
the
video of this exciting race at SwimNetwork.com.
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Left: Co-Winners, Kyle Whitaker,
Duneland Swim Club and Neil O’Halloran, THSC on the award
podium.
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Right: Neil testing his gold medal.
(Photos courtesy Sarah Cruzan.)
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On Monday, Neil finished 4th
in the Mens 200 Butterfly with a new 15-16 OSI State
and Thunderbolt team record time of 2:01.45. Neil
breaks the previous OSI State record (2:03.33) set by fellow
Thunderbolt Paul Ely in 1998. Way to go,
Neil!
Other notable Thunderbolt swims:
Sarah Cruzan lowered the Thunderbolt team record
in the Womens 200 Backstroke by .22 seconds, finishing in
2:16.72.
The Thunderbolt Mens 4x200 (800) Free Relay
team of Jonathan Rooker, Connor McCarrol, Steven Ung and
Neil O’Halloran set a new Thunderbolt team record of
7:42.39, over 3 seconds faster than the old record, set in
1985.
Connor McCarroll finished
5th in the Mens 200 Backstroke.
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