Elliot Leasure Picks Up 2nd NAG Record of Weekend, Clocks 55.86 100 Again, First Sub 56 13-14 Ever

2026 AQJT Summer Spectacular

• June 11-14, 2026
• Jean Ok. Freeman Aquatic Center, Minneapolis, MN
• LCM (50 meters)
• “2026 MN AQJT Aquajets Summer Spectacular” on Meet Mobile

Just days after taking down Jack Alexy‘s 13-14 National Age Group Record in the 50 backstroke, Rochester Swim Club’s Elliot Leasure was again into his record-breaking methods, surging to a different NAG document, this time within the 100 again, the place he turned the primary 13-14 swimmer in NAG historical past to crack the 56-second barrier within the occasion in 55.86.

The swim was achieved in his residence state of Minnesota on the Jean Ok. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis on the AQJT Summer Spectacular.

In the prelims of the occasion, Leasure, 14,  had dropped three tenths of a second from his former finest time within the 100, again to 56.70. Today, that point is now almost a second slower than his new NAG document.

Thomas McMillan beforehand held the 13-14 NAG document in 56.36 in 2024, which he swam in the identical pool as Leasure. Leasure’s earlier swim of 56.70 made him solely the sixth individual ever to interrupt 57 seconds within the 13-14 NAG, the place now he turns into the primary ever to interrupt the 56-second mark.

Splits Comparison:

	Leasure (2026)	McMillan (2024)
50	27.12	27.29
100	28.74	29.07
	55.86	56.36

All-Time Boys 13-14 NAG 100 Backstroke Performers:

1. Elliot Leasure – 55.86 (2026)
2. Thomas McMillan – 56.36 (2024)
3. Josh Zuchowski – 56.83 (2019)
4. Michael Andrew – 56.83 (2014)
5. Destin Lasco – 56.84 (2016)

Leasure shaved seven tenths of a second off the previous 13-14 50 again NAG document yesterday, touching in 26.00, which marked greater than a full second enchancment over his finest time of 27.03 from May.

To full the 13-14 NAG sweep of the backstroke occasions, he might want to discover some technique to drop about two seconds to contest the document time from Keaton Jones in 2:00.28 from 2019.

He at the moment ranks 4th all-time within the boys 13-14 NAG for the 200 backstroke in 2:02.66.