Naperville native Mary DeScenza broke a 27-year-old U.S. record and won the gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the World Short Course Championships on Wednesday in Manchester England.
DeScenza, who also set a meet record in the process, won the event with a time of 2 minutes, 4.27 seconds, eclipsing the American mark (2:05.65) of Mary T. Meagher in 1981. The previous meet record (2:05.11) was set by Jessica Schipper two years ago in Shanghai.
"I've been training so hard lately," Descenza said after her race on usaswimming.org. "This is my first personal American record so it's very emotional for me."
After a coming up just short at the 2004 Olympic Trials, what do you think DeScenza's chances of making the U.S. Olympic team are this time around?
