Team records are regularly broken during the summertime’s Northern Virginia Swimming League season, and that was the case for one girls relay team for the Highlands Whomping Turtles during a July 6 Division 1 meet.
The age 11-12 girls medley set a new mark with a time of 1:01.27. The previous record was 1:01.37.
The Highlands relay was made up of Mackey Tolar, Rio Walther, Abbie Raymond and Emilia Vayra.
The Kent Gardens Dolphins set five new team records during their July 6 meet:
• Andy Li swam 27.33 in the boys 13-14 backstroke to set a new mark, then did the same in the 13-14 boys breaststroke in 30.62.
• The girls 9-10 medley relay of Tess Pizzamiglio, Grace Jeong, Sloane Nguyen and Nora Jia set a new record of 1:08.12.
• The boys 15-18 medley relay of Alexander Cafer, Aaron Jia, Harrison Weinstock and Zach Simon swam 1:47.40 to set a new mark.
• The boys 18-under mixed-age freestyle relay of Sully Yoo, Leo Wu, Aaron Kuang and Aaron Jia swam 1:44.12 for a new mark.
For the Overlee Flying Fish in their July 6 meet, Abigail Hartman lowered her 8-under backstroke team (and Overlee pool record) with a new time of 18:95.
Tuckahoe’s boys age 9-10 medley relay of Danile Klett, Victor Rodriguez, Andrew Pelaez and Oli Waisber set a new team and NVSL record of 1.07.59 in its July 6 meet.
The Langley Wildthings’ Celina Feng set a team record (16.89) in the girls 8-under freestyle and in the backstroke (20.49).
For the Great Falls Rapids on July 6, Simon Bermudez set a new team record of 26.30 in the boys 15-18 backstroke.
