Jensen Lynnes, Nash Oswald break swim records in Sailfish season opener
Will Mott swims in his first swim meet.
Submitted to Sumner Newscow — Wellington battled Derby in the first swim meet of the season at the Wellington Aquatic Center. Here was some of the highlights that occurred at the meet:
Several records were broken on a cloudy, but steamy hot Tuesday evening:
Jensen Lynnes
•Jensen Lynnes set two new pool records and three team records. She broke records in the 200 freestyle at 2:24.65 (also a new team record). This broke a 2003 record held by Arielle Horsch of Wellington. In the 100 freestyle she swam a 1:08.84 (also a new team record). This broke a pool record from 2011 held by Wellington’s Bliss Baird.
Lynnes also set a new team record in the 50 free with a 31.33 time. This breaks a 2003 record previously held by Arielle Horsch.
Nash Oswald
•Nash Oswald also set two pool records and three team records as well:
In the 50 back, he swam a 34.91 (also a team record). This broke a record from 2000 held by a McPherson swimmer.
In the 50 free, Oswald swam a 30.79 (also a team record) which broke a 2011 record held by a Winfield swimmer. Nash also set a new team record in 50 fly at 36.83.
This broke a team record set by John Heath in 1999.
Overall, Derby won the meet with a combined 484 to 168 score. In the boys it was 184 to 
93 and in the girls it was 300 to 75. The full race results can be found here.
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Kenneth Dockery is about to swim the 100 freestyle off the deck.
The following is the link of USA Swimming which allows the swimmers to try to qualify to compete at the next level in late July. Those standard can be found here.
