Dr. Ron as he is known to many still trains and competes in both USA swimming and USMS. I saw him swim at the 2003 LC Nationals at Rutgers University. He is constantly breaking records and a lot of the times his USMS records are faster than his World Records. You ask how is this possible? He sets a lot of records at USA swimming and FINA meets. FINA only recognizes masters records swum in Masters competitions. So most of the USMS records are faster than his FINA world records.
I read some place that Ron was planning on changing his sports nationality from USA to Poland back in 2003, so he could swim in the Olympics. I don't know if this actually happened because I don't believe he made the qualifing trials time of 2:02.54 to get to the Olympics. Its good that he is still swimming.
About the Ford Dealers Aquatic Club, from what I know they are a sponsor for the Univ. of Arizona club that is based out of Tucson. If those swimmers train with Frank Busch and the University then they swim for that club. So its not just Schoeman, Nethling, and Ferns. It has swimmers like Emily Mason, Whitney Myers, and Amanda Beard. It also has swimmers from England like Simon Burnet. I don't think they just recruit people from Africa and fill the holes with the area swimmers.
Dr. Ron as he is known to many still trains and competes in both USA swimming and USMS. I saw him swim at the 2003 LC Nationals at Rutgers University. He is constantly breaking records and a lot of the times his USMS records are faster than his World Records. You ask how is this possible? He sets a lot of records at USA swimming and FINA meets. FINA only recognizes masters records swum in Masters competitions. So most of the USMS records are faster than his FINA world records.
I read some place that Ron was planning on changing his sports nationality from USA to Poland back in 2003, so he could swim in the Olympics. I don't know if this actually happened because I don't believe he made the qualifing trials time of 2:02.54 to get to the Olympics. Its good that he is still swimming.
About the Ford Dealers Aquatic Club, from what I know they are a sponsor for the Univ. of Arizona club that is based out of Tucson. If those swimmers train with Frank Busch and the University then they swim for that club. So its not just Schoeman, Nethling, and Ferns. It has swimmers like Emily Mason, Whitney Myers, and Amanda Beard. It also has swimmers from England like Simon Burnet. I don't think they just recruit people from Africa and fill the holes with the area swimmers.
