To get an idea of how many USMS national records are set in a year, I downloaded the reports from this page:
www.usms.org/.../recordexport.php
...and then added up all of the records that were dated 2015. The totals were:
Individual records (SCY, LCM, SCM): 257
Relay records (SCY, LCM, SCM): 59
Note that the relays each contain four swimmers, so that would be a total of 59x4 = 236 swimmers who set relay records.
So that is a total of 493 swimmers who set national records during the 2015 year. (Of course some of them are the same people who set more than one record, but this at least gives an estimate for the potential number of tests that would have to be conducted.)
To get an idea of how many USMS national records are set in a year, I downloaded the reports from this page:
www.usms.org/.../recordexport.php
...and then added up all of the records that were dated 2015. The totals were:
Individual records (SCY, LCM, SCM): 257
Relay records (SCY, LCM, SCM): 59
Note that the relays each contain four swimmers, so that would be a total of 59x4 = 236 swimmers who set relay records.
So that is a total of 493 swimmers who set national records during the 2015 year. (Of course some of them are the same people who set more than one record, but this at least gives an estimate for the potential number of tests that would have to be conducted.)
