Distance swimmer Kate Ziegler broke her own 1000 yard freestyle American record Sunday December 10th at the Tom Dolan Invitational. The meet was held at Jim McKay Natatorium on the campus of George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Ziegler's time was 9:21.57, which lowered her previous record of 9:24.80 by over 3 seconds. The prior record was set at this same meet, exactly a year ago. The swim last year had broken 16-year-old standard of 9:25.49 set by Janet Evans in 1989 in Chapel Hill, NC. The time also set the 17-18 National Age Group and U.S. Open record, as well as several PVS records.

Kate now owns all three yard records previously held by Janet Evans. She set the 1650-yard free standard three days ago also at the Tom Dolan Invitational. She set the 500-yard free record in February of this year at the Washington Metropolitan High School Championships in Germantown, Md. She came close to also lowering the 500 record on Saturday when she swam a 4:34.07, less than a second off her record time of 4:33.35.

Here are her splits:
1 Ziegler, Kate 18 FISH 9:24.80 9:21.57 20
25.91 53.43 (27.52) 1:21.50 (28.07) 1:49.74 (28.24)
2:17.93 (28.19) 2:46.28 (28.35) 3:14.52 (28.24) 3:42.90 (28.38)
4:11.34 (28.44) 4:39.48 (28.14) 5:07.89 (28.41) 5:36.19 (28.30)
6:04.82 (28.63) 6:33.66 (28.84) 7:02.29 (28.63) 7:30.66 (28.37)
7:59.01 (28.35) 8:27.26 (28.25) 8:55.17 (27.91) 9:21.57 (26.40)