The preliminary TT lists are posted for the 2012 SCM season, which ran Jan 1 thru Dec 31.
http://www.usms.org/comp/tt/
You can also look here to see all the times at once rather than for one age-group/gender
www.usms.org/.../PRELIM_SCM_12.pdf
Please review for accuracy and send corrections to Topten@usms.org or to me via PM.
Booyah! I helped put together my team's (ALEX) relays at the PV SCM relay meet at George Mason in November, and we managed to put up a total of 22 relays. When I was putting in the...looooong...hours seeding all the relays, I was thinking we'd be lucky to have a handful of them crack the top ten for the year. After checking both the USMS and FINA top ten listings, we walked out of that meet with 13 national relay top ten times and 3 (should be 4*) world relay top ten times!
That's far beyond my wildest expectations going into that meet, and I'm very proud of my teammates who helped put up some stellar relays!
*The 4th relay was 3rd fastest in the world by time, but for some reason doesn't show up on the FINA list
*The 4th relay was 3rd fastest in the world by time, but for some reason doesn't show up on the FINA list
Did the relay have a young (24 or under) person on it? FINA doesn't consider them masters swimmers and won't count any relays with them on it even if the ages add up to a recognized age group.
I will assign pool All-Stars once I get the list from Mary Beth, which should happen fairly soon.
"USMS Pool All-Stars are those who have achieved the most first place finishes in their age group during the year in Top Ten competition." (In the event of a tie, the tie-breaker is based on a point system using other TT swims.)
The list of 2012 All-Stars has been published:
www.usms.org/.../aslist.php
Now that all pool TT, AA and AS lists have been published, that concludes our show for 2012; thanks for playing. :-)
Now that all pool TT, AA and AS lists have been published, that concludes our show for 2012; thanks for playing. :-)
Actually I spoke slightly too soon; Mary Beth tells me that there are some errors in the online relay AA lists (eg listing UNAT relays). There are algorithm errors and will be fixed by Mary Beth or Jim (I just push a button that generates the online lists from TT relays).
I have attached a valid list of relay AAs. I apologize for any confusion.
