I replied no, thinking 'not for a Masters meet'. BUT, if I could do it with my kids then absolutely! Aside from my kids (and now my husband), I'm the only swimmer in my family. All my family members CAN swim, but they mostly can just do freestyle and maybe backstroke and breaststroke.
So, if it were not a Masters meet, yes. All 5 of my kids are swimming competitively. If my husband and oldest sons and myself were a team, we'd be pretty decent. :)
I replied no, but there was no option for "I could cobble one together but we'd suck and probably could only do the 200 (or even better, 100) medley." My sister used to be a swimmer, so she could probably manage *** stroke, I could do fly (ha!), my mom could do backstroke and since freestyle can be anything, I could have my dad or one of my cousins do doggy paddle for the freestyle leg. We would be slow as all get out, but we might finish legally. Thinking about my 73 year old father attempting to dive off the block is cracking me up, though. He'd have to start in the water (he was never a swimmer).
Both of my parents were competitive swimmers in the early 1950s, both of my sisters also competed into junior college, I was the only one who swam in university and still swims. By combined age group, we could do pretty well in a mixed medley.
I have tried over the years to recruit family into USMS, but they all have other things to do. They say.
Greensboro Nationals -- My father, two sisters and I ... the most fun I've ever had at relays. Both of my sisters swam through college, but hadn't competed in ~20 years. We had to teach my younger sister the rollover backstroke turn in the warmup pool before the even (because it wasn't invented/legal back when she swam). We even created our own team for a year - Brundage Swim Masters (BRSM).
Mixed 35+ 200 Yard Medley Relay
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Pl Name Sex/Age Club Seed Time Final Time Points
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23 BRSM 'A' X35+ BRSM 2:16.00 2:08.91 0.00
1) Rankin, Susan B (F41)
2) Brundage, Warner F (M69)
3) Brundage, Patrick W (M45)
4) Finley, Lisa B (F48)
35.15(35.15)
1:12.33(37.18)
1:37.00(24.67)
2:08.91(31.91)
Note how much we blew away our seed time -- all due to my sisters way exceeding their expectations !
I couldn't make a free relay with blood relatives. :blush:
I'm in the same boat. Actually, my one son could do respectable breaststroke. I could do back, and my wife or other sons could do free. Nobody could do fly.
55+ Mixed Sibling Breaststroke Relay (with an alternate - 68M, 66F, 60F, 59M, 57F) - Pretty well unbeatable for that age group and particular relay. Of course, I'm having a hard time finding that event at any meet!!
Medley would be not too competitive.
Three older brothers and I, ages 62, 60, 59, and 55. All four of us swam in high school, and three of us swam in college. I (55) would swim backstroke, 59 would swim breaststroke (missed the '72 Olympic Trials by 0.5 seconds in the 200 ***), 60 would swim butterfly ('70 high school All-America in the freestyle relay), and 62 would swim freestyle.
We talked about doing this years ago, but never got around to setting it up. I'm the only one who's currently swimming (and not very swiftly), but maybe we'll make this happen someday.
Best I can offer: extremely slow 4x 50m medley, me as flyer (ie one-arm fly as a disability exception), possibly with water starts. And I don't know if the *** would be FINA-legal.
No living parents or grandparents, no children, one sibling. I know my cousins swam recreationally as kids, so assume they can at least survive 50m! Ditto my brother. I'm the only one who's ever competed.
