Yezan Alsader of WAVES Bloomington-Normal YMCA has lowered his own 11-12 National Age Group Record in the 400 meter IM with a 4:52.24. That lops another two full seconds off of the 4:54.24 set at the Gulf Coast Swim Team Summer Invitational in June. The old record was held by Florida All-American Nick Caldwell in 2006 in 4:54.92.

Alsader is swimming at the Sectional Meet at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center in Minneapolis this weekend, and also put up some impressive swims in time trials already this week. He was a 2:16.67 in the 200 meter fly on Wednesday, which is only behind Ryan Murphy and Justin Lynch in the age group all-time, and adding in a 2:18.75 in the 200 back on Thursday, 8th-fastest of all-time.

He is coached by Heather Fort in Bloomington.

His splits were:

Fly 30.18/35.11 = 1:05.29

Back 37.01/35.82 = 1:12.83

Breast 43.72/44.40 = 1:28.12

Free 33.18/32.82 = 1:06.00

Total: 4:52.24

Compared to his previous splits of:

Fly – 1:05.37

Back – 1:13.87

Breast – 1:28.89

Free – 1:06.11

That shows the majority of his improvements came through the middle of the race, on the backstroke and breaststroke legs, though every single split improved overall. He finished 40th overall to go with a 31st-place finish in the 800 free (9:03.41) from earlier in the meet.

Alsader has no individual, counting swims left, though consider that he’s only 12 and is swimming against predominantly high school and college swimmers.