This traditional DAM event has a new identity in recognition of it's founder, Ross Yancher. Ross, the Davis Aquatic Masters head coach from 1981 to 1988, passed away late last year and the event was renamed in his memory.
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For nearly a decade, DAM has been challenging USMS members to be a brute ... what's a brute? Well, the Brute Squad event takes the three most difficult events in swimming: the 200 butterfly, the 400 IM, and the 1650 freestyle, and combines them into a single event! Start the clock. Swim a 200 fly. Then a 400 IM. Follow that up with a 1650 free. Stop the clock. Ready? Sounds crazy, doesn't it? Not, really.
Over the past eight years, nearly 1,000 USMS members have competed in the event and from those results an original TOP TEN TIMES list was compiled.
Whether you're a past competitior and want to see where you rank or interested in swimming for the first time, use the links below to see where you stand or to plan your pacing in advance.
2017 Registration
Current Meet Records
Split Sheet
All time TOP TEN
Brute Squad planner
Interested in finding out more or have any questions?
Contact Stu Kahn at kahnswim@gmail.com
Did this Ross coach in the Denver area in the early 80s? I swear that was the name of my age group coach when I was like 11-13. If so, wild character. We used to have Donut relays (Masters had Kahlua and coffee relays) and donut particles were all over the pool (swim 50 meters swallow 1 donunt hole, swim 50 meters...up to 4 donut holes). Good luck with your event.
Yes, one and the same. And by all accounts, he brought that same larger-than-life personality to our team back in 1981. He was the second Head Coach in our program following Dave Scott, the club founder and six-time Hawaii Ironman Champion.
2017 Results are in!!
Thank you to all of this year's Brutes. We had a record number of 190 entries in this one-of-a-kind event. Check the links below for this year's results, as well as the current TOP TIMES lists.Four new event records were set, and forty-seven new TOP TEN times were earned this year (twenty-two women and twenty-five men).
New Records:
Tara Halsted 22 26:51.1 DAM
Allison Zamanian 47 26:10.7 WCM
Carole Khouri 55 29:09.8 STAN
Marc Blumberg 24 25:29.5 DAM
2017 Results
Updated All time TOP TEN
I would encourage you to promote this event in 2018 ... and maybe make the qualification period longer? Could you keep this open for the entirety of 2018 or is that just a logistical nightmare. I think it would take a special amount of motivation to try this and suspect I'd have a few failed attempts along the way, so it would be cool to have a long period in which to get psyched up enough and in shape enough to do this.
