Great Meets with Fast Pools

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:48:31 GMT

Terrapin Masters will be hosting a pair of LCM meets this summer at the University of Maryland, College Park: The Terrapin Cup July 1 and the Colonies Zone Championship Meet August 18-19. This is a great chance to swim LCM in a world-class facility. Muppet (or anyone else who may know)- Why are CZ LCM zones scheduled after Nationals? This is the second year in a row (that I'm aware). The real reason I ask is that this makes my coach nuts (he's "quirky"), which in turn, makes the rest of the team nuts because he just won't stop :blah: :blah: about the timing. I would love to give him a reason; although, he would likely just :blah: about that too. Dana

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:32:02 GMT

:eek: Terrapin Masters will be hosting a pair of LCM meets this summer at the University of Maryland, College Park: The Terrapin Cup July 1 and the Colonies Zone Championship Meet August 18-19. This is a great chance to swim LCM in a world-class facility. The pool has hosted Y-Nationals for the last several years, the 1999 and 2000 FINA SCM World Cups, ACC Championship meets and a pair of USMS Colonies Zone SCY Championship meets in addition to several high-profile USAS meets. I believe Michael Phelps' Pool record 200IM was a WR at the time. The pool's proximity to Washington, DC, Baltimore and Annapolis make it a great vacation destination as well!! haaha looking at you...your like a meet salesman:thhbbb: I'm gonna try to come down for one or the other...its a long drive for both for me...and I better swim fast...since its a "world-class facility" and all..

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:48:39 GMT

Morgan, I'll be there for both of those meets so maybe we can meet. I agree with Jeff that it's a great pool. Alison yeah definatly:-D I think I will probably go to the July 1st one!

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Muppet — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:10:46 GMT

Terrapin Masters will be hosting a pair of LCM meets this summer at the University of Maryland, College Park: The Terrapin Cup July 1 and the Colonies Zone Championship Meet August 18-19. This is a great chance to swim LCM in a world-class facility. The pool has hosted Y-Nationals for the last several years, the 1999 and 2000 FINA SCM World Cups, ACC Championship meets and a pair of USMS Colonies Zone SCY Championship meets in addition to several high-profile USAS meets. I believe Michael Phelps' Pool record 200IM was a WR at the time. The pool's proximity to Washington, DC, Baltimore and Annapolis make it a great vacation destination as well!!

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:00:12 GMT

Obviously the meet was set with an eye to Fort's availability... Muppet PM'd me with the moving parts, and I can assure you, Peter, that youare ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! The complex formula breaks down to--this is when Fort said she would be ready to kick *** (censored).:thhbbb:

RE: Great Meets with Fast Pools

Former Member — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:12:50 GMT

Obviously the meet was set with an eye to Fort's availability...

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swimshark — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:54:45 GMT

:eek: haaha looking at you...your like a meet salesman:thhbbb: I'm gonna try to come down for one or the other...its a long drive for both for me...and I better swim fast...since its a "world-class facility" and all.. Morgan, I'll be there for both of those meets so maybe we can meet. I agree with Jeff that it's a great pool. Alison

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Muppet — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:37:28 GMT

Muppet (or anyone else who may know)- Why are CZ LCM zones scheduled after Nationals? This is the second year in a row (that I'm aware). The real reason I ask is that this makes my coach nuts (he's "quirky"), which in turn, makes the rest of the team nuts because he just won't stop :blah: :blah: about the timing. I would love to give him a reason; although, he would likely just :blah: about that too. Dana There is a lot of moving parts... I'll PM you

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:23:44 GMT

I swam in another fast pool last week in Bend OR, with Bob Bruce's master's group. The renovated Juniper Swim & Fitness Center appears to be a fast pool and COMA is hosting their LMSC meet in April. If it had been earlier, I would have stayed to swim. I swam in this pool before the changes and I like what they have done. Instead of Bend, I'm choosing to make myself miserable at 5280 in Denver. -- mel

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Former Member — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:39:45 GMT

Allen: yup, Federal Way has been VERRRY kind to me & I'm looking forward to more swims there in May. See you then at the breaststroke corner. I've heard that Jane & Hugh are going to hire some guards to protect us breaststrokers from the other people who only think they know what swimming is all about! Paul: how's the knee recovery coming? Missed you last weekend at DU but hope you'll make it for the state meet. I think I'll pass on Tucson in the summer. Grace & I are planning on swimming in Houston & that may be the only LC meet for us this year. Meanwhile, we're training with a nice bottle of 1991 Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet.... -- mel

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Former Member — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:27:43 GMT

Any meet at the IUPUI pool is awesome. That pool is fast everyday. Miami of Ohio's, Eastern Michigan University, Nashville (TN) Sportsplex... to name a few.

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Former Member — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:03:23 GMT

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aquageek — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:32:02 GMT

Our own state meet at Denver University April 13-15 has all the requirements: Great pool, fast swimmers, fun town.....problem is all you wussies out there who are afraid to come swim at 5280'! I will freely admit to being a wuss in Denver. Growing up I'd go to Denver for 4-6 weeks in mid July which was right after summer league ended here. One day at practice out there made my head spin, forget that! And, the pool water in the summer in Denver is freezing.

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knelson — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:39:09 GMT

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Former Member — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:58:11 GMT

So, Jeff, when and what is being done to the Hillenbrand Pool? How long is it going to be out of service? When I was at the Polar Bear meet, it wasn't being talked about. -- mel

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Paul Smith — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:47:45 GMT

Our own state meet at Denver University April 13-15 has all the requirements: Great pool, fast swimmers, fun town.....problem is all you wussies out there who are afraid to come swim at 5280'! Check it out at: www.comsa.org Mel....I agree ASU is a faster/better facility and Brophy has not always run the best meets.....however I still think its a fast pool and Arizona always has great swimmers (they seed by time not age) and its a great time of year to be down there....FYI their long course state meet in July is in Tucson (another fast pool).....

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waves101 — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:02:23 GMT

Y-Nats @ UIPUI. Hard to find a faster pool. I've set several of my Masters PB's in this pool and am looking forward to the chance this year.

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Former Member — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:34:49 GMT

Paul- I was always looking for a meet out there in Denver when I was out there numerous times for work. Think you guys scheduled meets on times I would not be out there on purpose. I have no problems swimming at that altitude. Why don't ya come swim at the new Ohio State complex. I know, you were looking for nice venues to swim outside of the pool, but Columbus does have some things to offer besides the Buckeyes, I just can't think of anything at this moment lol

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knelson — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:57:11 GMT

The pools at Minnesota, Purdue and Ohio State would all be great places for nationals sometime. I think Wisconsin is building a new pool in the next couple years, too.

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Paul Smith — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:58:00 GMT

Greg.....you need to start planning your trips around meets vs. work! Sadly I won't be at our state meet this year.....we'll be in AZ. If the knee keeps progressing (Mel...its coming along slowly) I'll try and jump in for one or two events at Brophy..... As for Ohio.....would come out in a second if the schedule allowed....post a link to the meet when you get info! Geek....step up you old man....come out here with Gull and swim the 500!

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Jeff Commings — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:57:06 GMT

FYI their long course state meet in July is in Tucson (another fast pool)..... That'll probably be the last masters meet in that pool before they overhaul it into an extremely fast pool (7-8 feet throughout).

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swimr4life — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:04:25 GMT

Y-Nats @ UIPUI. Hard to find a faster pool. I've set several of my Masters PB's in this pool and am looking forward to the chance this year. Hands down the fastest pool I've ever swam in. I love it! I did all my personal best masters times in that pool!

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Allen Stark — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:48:47 GMT

I agree the ASU pool is fast. They have a SCM meet there in the fall that is a good one. Walnut Creek and Long Beach SCM meets are usually fast in fast pools. Federal Way usually has at least one meet a year(SCY,SCM, or LCM) and it is fast of course(See you at Nats. there?)

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Former Member — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:27:32 GMT

I like the ASU pool way better than the Brophy pool, Paul. I've also had some bad luck in getting the meet management at Brophy to follow through on all the paperwork needed to finish out a meet. As an example, when we were there last summer with you, they didn't forward the 400 split on my 1500 swim to the Top Ten. I saw the signed paper but it just got lost. It's a long way to go not to have the details done right (remember what John Wooden said...). So, instead of going to AZ this spring (I already did the Polar Bear in Tucson), we are headed to the SPMA SCY champs in Santa Clarita. Don't know if this is a particularly fast pool, but we'll give it a try. -- mel