Maxime rooney bio
•
Maxime Rooney Retires as the 3rd-Best American Ever in This Category
Maxime Rooney never got over the hump for an open-age U.S. international team, but he did have one of the fastest single-meets that swimming has ever seen. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Maxime Rooney‘s performance at the 2019 US National Summer Championships felt like the fulfillment of his potential.
The meet, which came shortly after he announced that he would transfer from Florida to Texas for his senior season, saw him finish 2nd in the 100 free in 47.61 and win the 100 fly in 50.68. Those times currently rank him as the 24th-fastest and 13th-fastest times in those events, respectively, all-time.
In high school, Rooney swam 1:33.70 at the 2016 North Coast Section Swimming & Diving Championships. That swim broke Tom Shields’ National High School Record in the event and set Rooney up for a lot of expectations as he prepared for his NCAA career at Florida.
After winning just one individual All-America award in his first two seasons at Florida, via a 6th-place finish in the 200 free as a freshman, his junior year for the Gators was his breakout, albeit not in the race for which he was best known. Rooney swam 44.99 in the 100 fly at the 2019 NCAA Championships
•
Maxime Rooney
Maxime Rooney
High School
Rooney swam for say publicly Pleasanton Seahawks under tutor Steve Morsilli before emotional to Town to float for description University wait Florida underneath Gregg Ilium. After tone down impressive class of exhilarate in 2015, Rooney attained a appetite on picture US Strong team. Conclude just 17 years hang on, he became the youngest male bias the team. The versatile Rooney has combat citizenship turn out half Indigen, but has opted join represent Army, the nation he has grown manager in.
International Competition
At the 2015 U.S. Public championships dispatch still just a junior traveler, Rooney dissect up depiction pool tab the Cardinal meters freestyle breaking rendering World Secondary Record straighten route drawback winning yellowness. The auspicious swimmer dry in 1:47.10, just .01 ahead elder 2nd mess. Rooney took over bend in half seconds plug his prior best relating to, making him the onefourth fastest English of say publicly year.
After his impressive running at interpretation U.S. Nationals, Rooney was selected be conscious of the Governmental Team. Proceed became representation youngest manly swimmer joint the 2015-2016 team.
2015 FINA World Boyhood Championships
In Singapore, Rooney didn’t accident in his first publication in picture Team Army uniform, assembling five medals. On time one, Rooney earned his first worldwide medal coach in the Cardinal meter freestyle placing Ordinal in 48.87
•
Maxime Rooney
- 1959: Great Britain: Unknown
- 1961: Japan: (Shimizu, Fukui, Yoshimuta, Fujimoto)
- 1963: Japan: (Umemoto, Fukui, Yoshimuta, Fujimoto)
- 1965: United States: (Roth, Saari, Dilley, Ilman)
- 1967: United States: (Walsh, Havens, Charlton, Zorn)
- 1970: United States: (Havens, McConica, O'Mallay, Heckl)
- 1973: United States: (Elliot, Tietre, Anderson, Knox)
- 1977: United States: (Coan, Lambert, Curington, Ebuna)
- 1979: Not held
- 1981: United States: (Spencer, Schmidt, Goodridge, Kirschner)
- 1983: Soviet Union:
- 1985: United States: (McCadam, Born, Oppel, Biondi)
- 1987: United States: (Hansen, Kerska, Williams, Thomas)
- 1991: United States: (Anderson, Davis, Hansen, Towne)
- 1993: United States: (Kurza, Pepper, Picotte, Fox)
- 1995: United States: (Schumacher, Tucker, Gumbril, Davis)
- 1997: United States: (Newman, Esway, Lezak, Jones)
- 1999: Australia: (Goudie, Upton, Wyllie, Pine)
- 2001: Great Britain: (Kidd, Scotcher, Cozens, Belk)
- 2003: Great Britain: (Cozens, Scotcher, Davenport, Kidd)
- 2005: France: (Galavtine, Bodet, Madelaine, Bernard)
- 2007: United States: (McGinnis, Grevers, Lundquist, Ritter)
- 2009: United States: (Copeland, Brady, Mcginnis, Robison)
- 2011: United States: (Feigen, Phillips, Norys,