Distance swimmer Kate Ziegler broke Janet Evans' 1650-yard freestyle American record Thursday December 7th at the Tom Dolan Invitational. The meet was held at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Ziegler's time was15:37.17, which broke the previous 16-year-old standard of 15:39.14 set by Janet Evans on March 17, 1990 in Austin, Texas at the NCAA Championships. 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 1000-yard free standard last December at the Tom Dolan Invite and the 500-yard free record in February of this year at the Washington Metropolitan High School Championships in Germantown, Md.

Here are her splits:
1 Ziegler, Kate 18 FISH 15:40.89 15:37.17 20
25.96 53.62 (27.66) 1:21.65 (28.03) 1:49.89 (28.24)
2:18.14 (28.25) 2:46.66 (28.52) 3:15.40 (28.74) 3:44.00 (28.60)
4:12.47 (28.47) 4:40.84 (28.37) 5:09.29 (28.45) 5:37.96 (28.67)
6:06.61 (28.65) 6:35.19 (28.58) 7:04.15 (28.96) 7:32.98 (28.83)
8:01.88 (28.90) 8:30.56 (28.68) 8:59.25 (28.69) 9:27.32 (28.07)
9:55.59 (28.27) 10:24.07 (28.48) 10:52.68 (28.61) 11:21.38 (28.70)
11:50.25 (28.87) 12:18.98 (28.73) 12:47.51 (28.53) 13:16.49 (28.98)
13:45.20 (28.71) 14:13.74 (28.54) 14:41.73 (27.99) 15:10.41 (28.68)
15:37.17 (26.76)