There were 4 USMS Masters swimmers swimming in the first ever Professional Duel Meet of the newly formed Professional Swimming League. I was in attendance last night and I plan on attending tonight. The purpose of this PSL is to provide opportunities for post graduate and professional swimmers to swim in a dual meet format similar to what they do in College Swimming.
Most of the events are sprint to middle distance and the meet takes between an hour in a half to 2 hours to complete. Fans seemed to want to see short fast swimming. The format is LCM. I received the PSL dailey newsletter today and they are very happy with the results of Day 1. Michigan Masters and PSL swimmer Kevin Doak is helping with the planning of the meet by providing newsletter updates and Web Administrator responsibilities.
Here are the contents of the newsletter.
Day 1 was a huge success!
Swim Fans,
The First day of the Pro Dual 1 was a huge success! Thank you so much for your support! We had a great spectator showing and plenty of volunteers as well! We were proud to award our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners with cash prizes totaling $3,500 dollars courtesy of our Sponsors! We were happy to have some live entertainment between events from the U of M Dance Team and the local singing group the Friars! Special thanks to SwimmingWorldMagazine for the help with the live video and news article:
Videos:
tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../2011-pro-dual-meet-1
Article:
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../28767.asp.
Live Results:
www.mgoblue.com/.../index.htm
Event Website:
http://proswimleague.com
Along with Kevin Doak, Nick Brunelli, Bryan Lundquist, and Ian Hulme were the USMS Masters swimmers in the meet.
I must say for a $10 ticket price, you got to see a lot of great swimming and 16 Olympic and 14 National Team members. A lot of foreign swimmers swam in this dual meet. The swimmers themselves got behind this and are not doing to earn money but hopefully to get this PSL off the ground.
The community got behind this and helped not just with sponsorship but with families boarding swimmers to help with there finances.
Video broadcast will be available tonight at Swimming Worlds event landing page www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../28745.asp
There were 4 USMS Masters swimmers swimming in the first ever Professional Duel Meet of the newly formed Professional Swimming League. I was in attendance last night and I plan on attending tonight. The purpose of this PSL is to provide opportunities for post graduate and professional swimmers to swim in a dual meet format similar to what they do in College Swimming.
Most of the events are sprint to middle distance and the meet takes between an hour in a half to 2 hours to complete. Fans seemed to want to see short fast swimming. The format is LCM. I received the PSL dailey newsletter today and they are very happy with the results of Day 1. Michigan Masters and PSL swimmer Kevin Doak is helping with the planning of the meet by providing newsletter updates and Web Administrator responsibilities.
Here are the contents of the newsletter.
Day 1 was a huge success!
Swim Fans,
The First day of the Pro Dual 1 was a huge success! Thank you so much for your support! We had a great spectator showing and plenty of volunteers as well! We were proud to award our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners with cash prizes totaling $3,500 dollars courtesy of our Sponsors! We were happy to have some live entertainment between events from the U of M Dance Team and the local singing group the Friars! Special thanks to SwimmingWorldMagazine for the help with the live video and news article:
Videos:
tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../2011-pro-dual-meet-1
Article:
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../28767.asp.
Live Results:
www.mgoblue.com/.../index.htm
Event Website:
http://proswimleague.com
Along with Kevin Doak, Nick Brunelli, Bryan Lundquist, and Ian Hulme were the USMS Masters swimmers in the meet.
I must say for a $10 ticket price, you got to see a lot of great swimming and 16 Olympic and 14 National Team members. A lot of foreign swimmers swam in this dual meet. The swimmers themselves got behind this and are not doing to earn money but hopefully to get this PSL off the ground.
The community got behind this and helped not just with sponsorship but with families boarding swimmers to help with there finances.
Video broadcast will be available tonight at Swimming Worlds event landing page www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../28745.asp
