In the thread on retirement communities with masters clubs, @pwb mentioned Saddlebrooke. While looking at their site, something wacky occurred to me. I thought I would throw it out there before reason got the better of me.
Maybe USMS should give an annual award to the club with the greatest average age of the swimmers who competed during the year. I think you could easily compute the average age by (for each club/workout group/LMSC, whatever) summing the swimmers' ages for each splash, then dividing by the total number of splashes by that club. If you wanted to get all fancy about it, you could probably factor in the distance of the swims as well, so that (for example) a 1650 swum by an 89yo would count more than a 200 by a 45yo. You could also include Postal Swims in consideration of the award, not just regular swim meets.
There are some (very few) like Maurine Kornfeld, who at 93 swam a sub-22 minute 1000 at nationals last month. Mo is such an inspiration and she may be the only human over 90 who could swim the 10K.
Personal note – my mother had a pretty good 500 for an 85 year old, but she couldn’t keep pace with Maurine.
I know a human being that is over 90 and could rival Maurine. She retired from competitive swimming when she had to take care of her husband and wanted to retire because after being inducted into the ISHOF in 2010, there really was not any challenges anymore. You can read about who I am talking about on page 8 of the Michigan Masters newsletter linked here:
www.michiganmasters.com/.../2013EOY_V2.pdf
There are some (very few) like Maurine Kornfeld, who at 93 swam a sub-22 minute 1000 at nationals last month. Mo is such an inspiration and she may be the only human over 90 who could swim the 10K.
Personal note – my mother had a pretty good 500 for an 85 year old, but she couldn’t keep pace with Maurine.
I know a human being that is over 90 and could rival Maurine. She retired from competitive swimming when she had to take care of her husband and wanted to retire because after being inducted into the ISHOF in 2010, there really was not any challenges anymore. You can read about who I am talking about on page 8 of the Michigan Masters newsletter linked here:
www.michiganmasters.com/.../2013EOY_V2.pdf
