I believe history was made yesterday at the Southwest Zone SCM Championships. Read the story here at www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../10403.asp the time was just .08 off the World Record that Fred Bousquet set at the 2004 NCAA Championships the year before he went his historic :18.74 50 Yard Free. What interesting is that Nick did a long morning workout and swam two events (200 Free & 200 IM) before he swam the 50 Meter Free.
I believe this is the first time a USMS registered master swimmer has set a USA Swimming American Record in a sanctioned USMS masters meet or any USA sanctioned meet. He broke Anthony Ervin's record by .03 that was set at the 2000 NCAA Championships. It will be interesting to see if he will be credited with the record because it was sanctioned only by USMS and not USA swimming according to the swim info article. With our new dual affiliation guidelines it should not be a problem. It does meet the FINA requirements because it was done in a masters meet but unfortuately it was not a FINA World Record but will be a FINA Masters World Record. It will be interesting to see how this stacks up against the World Cup Meets in both the 2005 USA National and 2005 FINA SCM World rankings.
I happen to witness a swimming performance very similar to this back in 1983 at the USMS Long Course Nationals at the new IUPUI Natatorium. There was a swimmer named Kevin DeForest that swam out of University of Missouri that swam a :22.59 which tied a Robin Leamy performance swam a couple weeks prior at the US Nationals in Clovis, CA in 1983 winning the 50 Free. Kevin missed the World Record held by Robin Leamy at :22.54 by .05 set in 1981 at Brown Deer which was the same meet Mary T is famous for. Kevin was ranked 3rd in the world that year. Kevin DeForest still has the USMS and FINA Masters World record that was set back in 1983 and its quite possibly the oldest USMS pool record standing.
Judging from Nick Brunelli's swim this past weekend, Kevin's record is in danger of being broken very soon if he happens to enter a USMS LC sanctioned meet. I hope that FINA and USA swimming count this swim as an overall record and not just a masters record. Out of this something crazy could be that you can't set an American Record in a Masters meet only in a USA sanctioned meet and FINA non masters meet. I wonder if anyone ever thought this was possible when swimming USMS and USA swimmers together in a dually sanctioned meet.
Originally posted by Dominick Aielloeaver
It is to bad, that some sport writer from some news paper, was not alerted to this amazing swimmer and his acclomplishment. It would have given Nick and USMS Some exposure. Because the papers, do not do to much reporting on swimming. But these are my thoughts. :) :cool:
My experience with the press and swimming......Someone in the swimming community has to write up the article and submit it. Their staff writers usually know little about swimming.
Originally posted by Dominick Aielloeaver
It is to bad, that some sport writer from some news paper, was not alerted to this amazing swimmer and his acclomplishment. It would have given Nick and USMS Some exposure. Because the papers, do not do to much reporting on swimming. But these are my thoughts. :) :cool:
My experience with the press and swimming......Someone in the swimming community has to write up the article and submit it. Their staff writers usually know little about swimming.
