
NAG RECORDS SWIMMING FREE
Other state records for the week were secured in the 200-yard medley relay, the 400-yard medley relay, the 800-meter free relay and the 400-meter medley relay. The unit of Becicka, Stacy, Luke Strumbell and Kyle Winiecki also made a run at the NAG record in the 400-meter free relay, finishing in 3:45.30, not far off the standard of 3:44.34. Still, that swim shattered the state record by more than four seconds.

In the 200-yard free relay, the same Great Wolf foursome gave a run at Black Hawk’s NAG record (1:27.35), but came up a little short with a time of 1:28.05. The former mark of 1:43.15 was set by Black Hawk (Iowa) in 2003. Thomas Heilman - the 14-year-old swimming phenom out of Virginia's Cavalier Aquatics under coach Gary Taylor - broke 13 national age group records in 11 days. The squad consisted of Becicka, Stacy, Zack Strumbell and Luke Strumbell. The Great Wolf relay also featured a state record as Stacy led off in a sizzling 1:42.99.ĭuring Sunday action, Great Wolf claimed an NAG record in the short-course metric format, as it popped an effort of 1:41.46 in the 200-meter freestyle relay.


The effort dipped under the former 13-14 mark, set at 7:09.91 by Circle C Swimming in 2002. On Saturday, the quartet of Pete Stacy, Anton Safonov, Roman Becicka and Zack Strumbell clocked a national record in the 800-yard freestyle with a time of 7:07.74. LAST weekend, the Great Wolf Swim Team took a bite out of two NAG relay records in the 13-and-14 age group, and also added eight Minnesota age-group records, during the Howlin Fast Swim Meet, held at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.
