Highlights of the 2011 Palm Beach County Swimming and Diving Championships - Palm Beach Post
Four meet records, including the oldest in the books, fell Saturday night and the St. Andrew's girls and Boca Raton boys claimed the team titles at the Palm Beach County Swimming Championships at Lake Lytal Park.
St. Andrew's junior Quinn Cassidy made meet history when he clocked 1:55.68 to win the boys 200-yard individual medley, which combines all four strokes. That time eclipsed the previous record of 1:56.58 that former Olympian Ryan Berube set in 1991, before Cassidy, the son of St. Andrew's coach Sid Cassidy, was born.
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"My dad told me about [Berube] because he once coached him," Cassidy said of the former Benjamin standout. "It's been my goal [to break the record] ever since last year. The butterfly has always been my weakest leg and I swam my fastest fly of the season."
Cassidy also swam a leg on the St. Andrew's medley relay that set the first meet record of the finals, clocking 1:37.26. Dionisio Carey, Shawn Warner and anchor Wali Toulson teamed with Cassidy on the record-setting relay.
St. Andrew's junior Tasija Karosas broke her own year-old meet record in the girls 100-yard backstroke with a winning time of 56.34 seconds. Karosas also won the 200-yard IM in 2:06.45 and was selected the Outstanding Female Swimmer of the meet.
"I wasn't too happy with my morning [prelim] swim, but the night is what matters," Karosas said. "I knew from my training that I could go faster than I did last year."
Karosas also swam the first leg on the Scots' winning 400-yard freestyle relay that clocked a meet-record 3:34.73, just one-hundredth of a second faster than the previous record that Park Vista established four years ago.
Juniors Jason McCormick of Boca Raton and Jacob Percy of King's Academy were the only double county champions in the boys competition and were selected co-Outstanding Male Swimmers of the meet. McCormick won both freestyle sprints, clocking 21.65 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle final and 47.56 in the 100. Percy captured the other freestyle titles, winning the 200 in 1:45.46 and the grueling 500 in 4:46.37.
The other girls double champions were Boca Raton senior Harper Bruens in the 50 freestyle (23.85) and 100 freestyle (51.71), and St. Andrew's freshman Megan Moroney in the 200 (1:52.10) and 500 (5:00.63) freestyle finals.
St. Andrew's won the girls team title with 454 points, followed by runner-up Jupiter with 304. Boca Raton took home the boys championship trophy with 409.5 points, with St. Andrew's (281) a distant runner-up. St. Andrew's was the combined team champion with 735 points, followed by Boca Raton (647.5) and Jupiter (530.5)
— Steve Dorsey, Sun Sentinel Correspondent
Complete results of the 2011 Palm Beach County Swimming and Diving Championships
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