{"id":19927,"date":"2013-12-17T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19927"},"modified":"2013-12-17T10:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:57:58","slug":"magness-breaks-national-record-in-200-meter-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19927","title":{"rendered":"Magness breaks national record in 200-meter freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Patton 7th grader bursts record for 11 &amp; 12 year olds<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GoldenRamAquatics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-19928\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"GoldenRamAquatics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GoldenRamAquatics.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GoldenRamAquatics.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GoldenRamAquatics-112x100.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>LANCASTER \u2014 Unionville\u2019s Matt Magness broke the national record for 11 &amp; 12 year olds in\u00a0 the 200-meter freestyle this past weekend competing at the TYR Cup at Franklin &amp; Marshall College.<\/p>\n<p>Magness, a seventh grader at Charles F. Patton Middle School, broke the five-year old record of Nick Silverthorn&#8217;s 11-12 U.S. National Age Group record in the 200-yard freestyle, posting a 1:45.52 \u2014 knocking 3\/4th of second off the previous mark.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to breaking the national record in the 200-freestyle, Magness, who swims for Golden Ram Aquatics out of West Chester, won the 50-fly in 25.51, the 100-freestyle in 49.73, the 100 Individual Medley in 57.07, the 50-freestyle in 22.69, the 50-backstroke in 25.93, the 100-backstroke in 54.64 and the 100-fly in 54.99.<\/p>\n<p>Magness\u2019 dominant performance capped a strong event for Golden Ram Aquatics. Made up of swimmers from in and around the West Chester area \u2014 including Unionville \u2014 the womens&#8217; team won the team title at this meet, while Magness and the mens\u2019 team came home third overall. Combined \u2014 with swimmers ranging from 9 to 18 years in various divisions \u2014 the teams were second in overall points.<\/p>\n<p>Magness\u2019 performance \u2014 a fairly big drop from his previous personal best \u2014 puts him squarely on the national radar as a swimmer to be watched. Silverthorn \u2014 now a college freshman \u2014 now swims for Cal Berkley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patton 7th grader bursts record for 11 &amp; 12 year olds LANCASTER \u2014 Unionville\u2019s Matt Magness broke the national record for 11 &amp; 12 year olds in\u00a0 the 200-meter freestyle this past weekend competing at the TYR Cup at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Magness, a seventh grader at Charles F. Patton Middle School, broke the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[4652,4651,24],"class_list":["post-19927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-golden-ram-aquatics","tag-matt-magness","tag-unionville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}