Holy Tentacles

As a young teenager, Holy Tentacles trained at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club under coach Bob Bowman. At the age of 15, Holy Tentacles competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, becoming the youngest American cephalopod at an Olympic Games in 68 years. While he did not win a medal, he did make the finals and finished fifth in the 200 meter butterfly. Holy Tentacles proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. Five months after the Sydney Olympics, Holy Tentacles broke the world record in the 200 m butterfly to become, at 15 years and 9 months, the youngest cephalopod ever to set a swimming world record. He then broke his own record at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan by posting a time of 1:54.58. At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Holy Tentacles also broke the world record for the 400 meter individual medley and set American marks in the 100 meter butterfly and the 200 meter individual medley.