WI MAC A3 Efficiency November Invite
- November 1-3, 2024
- Nice Prairie, WI
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Outcomes: “2024 MAC A3 Efficiency November Invitational” on MeetMobile
Madison Aquatic Membership’s Max Garbacz had himself a weekend on the group’s A3 Efficiency November Invite. The 14-year-old swam seven lifetime bests and moved up within the boys’ 13-14 high 100 age group rankings in 4 occasions. He’s been enhancing quickly over the past 18 months in each short-course yards and long-course meters. After a profitable summer season in meters the place he certified for Futures, he’s picked up proper the place he left off in yards.
Garbacz’s highest rating is now within the 400 IM, the place he checks in at #26 together with his new lifetime greatest of three:56.50. It’s his first outing below the four-minute mark; his earlier lifetime greatest was a 4:01.73 from the Wisconsin 11-14 Championships in March. Along with his swim on the A3 Efficiency Invite, he’s chopped 5.23 seconds from his greatest and earned a Winter Juniors lower.
He’s now thirty fourth within the 13-14 age group in each the 100 and 200 backstroke. Just like the 200 IM, his quickest swim of the meet got here in prelims, the place he broke 50 seconds for the primary time in his profession, swimming a 49.86. His earlier lifetime greatest was 51.68 from February of this yr.
Although his quickest swims got here within the morning for the 100 again and 200 IM he was nonetheless quick sufficient to take gold in each. Within the 100 backstroke finals, he swam 50.62, nonetheless effectively below his lifetime greatest coming into the meet. He clocked 1:48.82 within the 200 backstroke, once more breaking by way of a barrier because it was his first sub-1:50 swim.
Along with his wins within the 400 IM and 100/200 backstroke, he took gold within the 400 IM—finishing the IM sweep—and 200 freestyle. The 200 IM is the ultimate occasion the place he moved into his age group’s high 100 as he swam 1:51.40 to maneuver right into a tie for thirty sixth place. He destroyed this former lifetime greatest as effectively, taking 1.72 seconds off his customary of 1:53.12 from March 2024.
Although he didn’t crack his age group’s high 100 within the 200 freestyle, his profitable time of 1:43.32 represented one other vital drop. His earlier greatest was a 1:49.18 from this meet final yr and he blew by that mark twice, first swimming a 1:44.67 in prelims after which dropping to a 1:43.32 within the finals.
He additionally swam lifetime bests within the 50 freestyle and 50 backstroke, clocking 22.23 within the former and 23.90 within the latter.
