Read 'em and weep...
The preliminary Top 10 listings for the 2012 long-course meters season, which ran 10/1/11 - 9/30/12, are now available. Please check for inaccuracies and email Mary Beth Windrath, or PM me, with potential corrections by Nov 24.
http://www.usms.org/comp/tt/www.usms.org/.../PRELIM_LCM12.pdf
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Aren't you considered a National Champion by winning there?
If you win an event at nationals, you are the national champion in that age group for that event.
The person that wins the event maybe the fastest in the age group that year. The person may not be the fastest that year. The fastest person may not have attended nationals or picked a different event that day. Neither of those matter to the person that won a national championship. The person that won the event showed-up to race that day. That is all that matters to him/her.
I have won 2 titles at nationals. I know that there faster swimmers in those events, but they didn't swim them that year. For the rest of my life, I will be able to claim national titles in my swimming career, which is something I never thought would happen in usms for me. Nothing will take the smile off my face from when I recieved my medals for swimming the events.
Aren't you considered a National Champion by winning there?
If you win an event at nationals, you are the national champion in that age group for that event.
The person that wins the event maybe the fastest in the age group that year. The person may not be the fastest that year. The fastest person may not have attended nationals or picked a different event that day. Neither of those matter to the person that won a national championship. The person that won the event showed-up to race that day. That is all that matters to him/her.
I have won 2 titles at nationals. I know that there faster swimmers in those events, but they didn't swim them that year. For the rest of my life, I will be able to claim national titles in my swimming career, which is something I never thought would happen in usms for me. Nothing will take the smile off my face from when I recieved my medals for swimming the events.
