Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ris­ing swim star Liam Car­ring­ton con­tin­ued his record-break­ing form this sea­son, de­liv­er­ing a se­ries of out­stand­ing per­for­mances for The Bolles School at the Flori­da High School Class 1A Swim­ming and Div­ing Cham­pi­onships, held on Sat­ur­day (No­vem­ber 8) at the FAST Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Ocala, Flori­da.

​Car­ring­ton cap­tured the State Cham­pi­onship ti­tle in the 100-yard freestyle, clock­ing an im­pres­sive 42.66 sec­onds to break the school record pre­vi­ous­ly held by three-time Olympian Ryan Mur­phy. Mur­phy’s record of 42.95 sec­onds, set back in 2012, had stood for 13 years un­til Car­ring­ton’s sen­sa­tion­al swim.

​Just weeks ear­li­er, on Oc­to­ber 28 at the Re­gion­al High School com­pe­ti­tion host­ed by The Bolles School in Jack­sonville, Car­ring­ton al­so broke a pool record in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 44.10 sec­onds, sur­pass­ing An­dres Dupont Cabr­era’s pre­vi­ous mark of 44.40 sec­onds.

​At the State Cham­pi­onships on Sat­ur­day, Car­ring­ton al­so an­chored The Bolles School’s boys’ 200-yard med­ley re­lay team, lead­ing them to a na­tion­al and meet record with a time of 1:26.67. The re­lay team, which in­clud­ed Kr­ish Jain, Lu­cas Young, George Dovel­los, and Car­ring­ton, eclipsed the pre­vi­ous Na­tion­al High School record of 1:26.75 set ear­li­er this year by Hins­dale Cen­tral (Illi­nois).

​Car­ring­ton’s light­ning-fast 19.32 an­chor leg proved de­ci­sive, out­pac­ing Hins­dale’s an­chor by near­ly a full sec­ond, and ce­ment­ed the new na­tion­al mark. The win al­so broke Bolles’ pre­vi­ous school record of 1:29.02, which was es­tab­lished in 2012 by a leg­endary re­lay team fea­tur­ing Olympians Ryan Mur­phy and Joseph School­ing.

​The Bolles re­lay vic­to­ry marked the school’s sixth con­sec­u­tive 200-yard med­ley re­lay state ti­tle, and its 17th in the past 18 years. Car­ring­ton al­so con­tributed to two ad­di­tion­al first-place re­lay fin­ish­es for The Bolles School, help­ing the team sweep all three re­lays: The 200-yard freestyle re­lay, where they clocked 1:20.29 with his team­mates Tom­my Lussier, Ethan Batha­la, and Dovel­los, and the 400-yard freestyle re­lay, fin­ish­ing in 2:55.23 to­geth­er with Nicholas Kwan, Char­lie Zuhos­ki, and Dovel­los.

​Car­ring­ton’s per­for­mances helped Bolles se­cure its 38th con­sec­u­tive Boys’ State Cham­pi­onship ti­tle, while the girls’ team con­tin­ued its streak with a 35th straight cham­pi­onship vic­to­ry.

​The Bolles re­lay team show­cased not on­ly dom­i­nance but al­so promise for the fu­ture of col­le­giate swim­ming, with Car­ring­ton set to join NC State Uni­ver­si­ty next fall.