The preliminary Top 10 listings for the 2011 short-course yards season, which ran 6/1/10 - 5/31/11, are now available. Please check for inaccuracies and email Mary Beth Windrath, the National Swims Administrator, with potential corrections BY JULY 30. You can also email me or send me a PM.
This is probably a good time to thank Jim, Chris, Jeff and anyone else who's involved in processing results, coding the database, preparing Top Ten, etc. You guys do a great job and we all appreciate it!
I noticed the times this year are markedly slower in my age group (40-44). Presumably the new suit rules had something to do with it. Based on the preliminary results for 2011, here's a comparison
event 2010 2011 delta
50 free 21.83 22.24 +0.41
100 free 47.98 49.12 +1.14
200 free 1.47.53 1.50.79 +3.26
500 free 4.56.52 5.09.96 +13.44
1000 free 10.45.64 10.50.86 +5.22
1650 free 18.26.46 18.27.70 +1.24
50 back 25.62 26.09 +0.47
100 back 56.09 56.27 +0.18
200 back 2.03.59 2.07.61 +4.02
50 *** 28.27 28.45 +0.18
100 *** 1.02.13 1.02.69 +0.56
200 *** 2.21.70 2.21.15 -0.55
50 fly 23.98 24.36 +0.38
100 fly 53.01 54.12 +1.11
200 fly 2.04.42 2.07.55 +3.13
100 IM 55.38 56.51 +1.13
200 IM 2.02.16 2.07.58 +5.42
400 IM 4.28.05 4.38.94 +10.89
So only the 200 *** was faster this year. Things could change slightly when the final TT is released, but definitely interesting. The 500 free is over 13 seconds slower!!
There are plenty of very good backstrokers (and other swimmers) out there who compete rarely. A good example is (former NCAA champion and Canadian Olympian) Sean Murphy; last time I can recall him competing was at Worlds in Stanford. He's moved to NC and someone told me he is training, he is just laying low (maybe until Greensboro? Hopefully so). Richie Hughey is another example, I remember him from college days, he sure looked good last year in Atlanta.
Here is a link to the roster of the Auburn Masters swimmers competing at nationals.
There are plenty of very good backstrokers (and other swimmers) out there who compete rarely.
I seem to recall seeing Jesse Vassallo on the PR psych sheets, but he was a NS in the results.
Clay Britt just aged up, and it looks like he hasn't competed in LCM in over a decade, but he won his a.g. in all the backstroke events at Colonies Zone SCY this year. It was a large field and the 100 was a NR.
Here is a link to the roster of the Auburn Masters swimmers competing at nationals.
A lot of those folks are swimming breaststroke. Is Auburn some kind of Mecca for breaststrokers?
A lot of those folks are swimming breaststroke. Is Auburn some kind of Mecca for breaststrokers?
One of my training partners is a 2 X OT breastroker from AU. His stroke is a thing of beauty, and terrifying to be in front of on an IM set at the back to *** transition.
A good example is (former NCAA champion and Canadian Olympian) Sean Murphy; last time I can recall him competing was at Worlds in Stanford. He's moved to NC and someone told me he is training, he is just laying low (maybe until Greensboro? Hopefully so).My coach(es) were on the 84 Canadian Olympic team with Sean and they keep in touch. He dropped in for a practice at GMU on New Years Day 2010, where the set was 110 x 50. Cheryl put us in adjacent lanes so we could do the set together, but she didn't tell me who he was. Just said he was an old friend. Mean trick. From what she has said he swims for fitness and bumps it up for some infrequent meets.
... but he is fast and seems to stay very fit. Rich won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Aha! Those top ten times have all the earmarks of an Olympian. :)
(I thought Mike Ross was the only one who could give Chris some backstroke competition.)
