Psych sheets are up

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orca1946 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:06:37 GMT

O K now I am psyched UP :applaud::banana::bliss:

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Former Member — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:02:03 GMT

I was the championship liaison to the 2004 Mission Viejo meet. Gary Hall did not deck enter the meet. Anyone that swam, was entered on time. Starting a year before that, the national office handled all entries for our championship meets. That has provided consistency in handling entries over the years.

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Kurt Dickson — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:05:39 GMT

I Anyone that swam, was entered on time. Apologies for spreading nasty rumors. It would be cool to have Misty there...her 200 Fly at the Olympics brought tears to my eyes. I remember Janet Evan's first Junior Nationals was my first. Her 1650 was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. Rules are good I suppose...I am ok with celebrity exceptions though...athletic darwinism I think they call it.

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knelson — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:37:50 GMT

so it is possible for elite athletes to comply with the rules the rest of us follow. Amen. Sorry, they don't deserve a free pass. I'd love to see them swim, but I expect them to enter the meet like everyone else. Rowdy always seems to get himself entered, just as one example.

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Bobinator — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:30:24 GMT

:hijack: I just wanted to let geek and wook know that I just got my Swimmer magazine. Because I've never met you, I didn't know what you looked like. You guys are adorable. :agree: I totally agree, both very cute!

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Patrick W. Brundage — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:23:13 GMT

It's my understanding that Janet did not submit her entry before the deadline. The same fate befell Misty Hyman as well, though Rob Butcher has told me she will be at the meet working with the video crew. C'mon. How does a message about your intent to race at USMS Nationals get out multiple months in advance of the meet and then you miss the entry deadline? If they really intended to race and missed the entry deadline, so be it. I, for one, would love to see both Janet and Misty race, but I'm pretty sure Cullen Jones, Nick Brunelli and Mark Gangloff got their entries in on time last year for Atlanta, so it is possible for elite athletes to comply with the rules the rest of us follow. I also know that meets had entry deadlines back when Janet and Misty both raced in the last century, so it's not a foreign concept. Deadline schmeadline...none of this stopped them from letting Gary Hall Jr. deck enter at Mission Viejo Nats 2004.:) Oh, Kurt, you're still not over that Arizona HS debacle last fall with entry formats, deadlines, etc.

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Sandi Rousseau — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:44:21 GMT

It would be wonderful if both Janet Evans and Misty Hyman could be in the meet. However, from the organizational view of a very large meet, the lever has to fall at some point to not allow anyone else to enter due to seeding, meeting printing deadlines for the program, etc. With all due respect to Olympians and what they do for the sport of swimming, if we let them in late, we have opened the flood gates and have to let everyone else in who was late. The precedent for a nationals can be deadly and result in numerous protests, etc. If somehow it was done in Mission Viejo (and I don't know any details about that but will check it out), it should not have been done. There may also be something that you do not know about the entries for that meet.

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orca1946 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:53:26 GMT

Do swim stars sign their names for free or charge $$$$$ like base & foot & basket ball players ?

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Glenn — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:47:29 GMT

Others may disagree, but I say let her swim. I think it would be good for masters swimming to have Janet Evans swim at our meet.

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orca1946 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:23:29 GMT

Cool ! Does that $20 include a nationals T shirt ?

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Kurt Dickson — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:33:56 GMT

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That Guy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:37:53 GMT

Others may disagree, but I say let her swim. I think it would be good for masters swimming to have Janet Evans swim at our meet. I'd even sign a waiver that says "I acknowledge that Olympians can get special treatment. Gold medalists, even moreso. Rabble like That Guy do NOT get special treatment. By signing this waiver I am saying that everyone should just be cool with this. :groovy:"

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jaadams1 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:16:02 GMT

Do swim stars sign their names for free or charge $$$$$ like base & foot & basket ball players ? I usually sign mine for free...but a special just for you --> $20 :banana:

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Former Member — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:28:04 GMT

Let me remind you of the immortal words of the author of the world's hottest swimming blog. He said, "Your two beat kick is a thing of utter beauty, more beautiful than rainbows and unicorns and puppy dogs." So, shove it, furdingle! If you were doing a 2 beat kick, you must have been swimming the 50, that is the only time you kick in freestyle

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Former Member — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:24:20 GMT

Yeah Karen, I was going to mention a magazine doesn't always do justice. Wait 'till you meet 'em in real life, then you can provide us with an upfront comment spoken from true experience. :mooning: Jim, I begged Laura to crop me and muppet out of the photo and to use your handsome face instead of mine. That photo was from lcm nats this summer when she took the photo of the 3 of us together.

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Chris Stevenson — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:19:54 GMT

All I can say is to try to reload/refresh the page if that happens to you, and if that doesn't work, download and install the Firefox browser and try that. I have never heard of this happening on these pages before (besides the printing issue). The psych sheet page is perfectly valid HTML as proven here. I've looked through our server logs and not a single error has been generated for that page. All 7,000 views of the psych sheet page today have resulted in status code 200 - a successful request for the page. If you are seeing a partial page, I'm guessing it's a browser issue. The web display of the psych sheets is the only way we offer it before the meet. FWIW, I had the same issue on my iPad, using either Safari or another browser. Refreshing fixed it.

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Jeff Commings — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:34:40 GMT

I believe SwimmingWorld posted this awhile back. I was hoping she would be there as well. Who knows, maybe she's swimming under her married name? It's my understanding that Janet did not submit her entry before the deadline. The same fate befell Misty Hyman as well, though Rob Butcher has told me she will be at the meet working with the video crew.

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jaadams1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:43:01 GMT

www.usms.org/.../ Let the trash talking begin and/or start playing "spot the sandbagger!" I'm NOT the sandbagger...I should be hitting my times if all goes as planned. I'll wait for the trash talking till afterwards!

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jaadams1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:19:21 GMT

Looks like it's going to be fun! I've only looked at my events, but there's good depth in lots of events. I noticed there are 25 people entered in the 200 fly in the 40-44 age group. I think seeding will be interesting because lots of us are guessing now without the suits. Why guess...just swim. (Is that why some of your seeded times look fast...:bolt:) No one has "the suits". I have my suit, you have your suit!! Just Swim! :) See ya next week at PNAs

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kristilynn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:25:23 GMT

Did anyone else notice that for some events limited age groups are displayed? For example, the women's 50 free only shows the 18-24 age group. However, when I clicked on the choice to display without age groups, all groups seemed to be represented.

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Glenn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:54:30 GMT

Jim, WOW, refreshing the page did it!! Thanks!!!!:applaud:

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knelson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:51:15 GMT

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Glenn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:26:16 GMT

Actually, nine lanes.

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jaadams1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:22:47 GMT

Will Nationals be swum as 8 lanes or 10 lanes per heat?

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Former Member — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:35:10 GMT

:hijack: I just wanted to let geek and wook know that I just got my Swimmer magazine. Because I've never met you, I didn't know what you looked like. You guys are adorable. :agree: Thanks Karen. I must tell the truth about the photo, the Swimmer Staff had to do some airbrushing on Geek's photo. One of the staff members told me that they had to insert most of his teeth, straighten out his nose, insert some hair so that he wouldnt't be bald on top and elimnate the wad of snuff in his mouth. According to the staffer, they spend several hours making his photo magazine ready.