It was a treat to see a swimming article on the top of page one of the sports section of the New York Times today. Allison Wagner is swimming again, and doing pretty well to boot. She does us masters proud. Its a well written article as well.
If you don't have access to a print version, the online NYT is available for free. Of course, you will have to look carefullly beyond the Yankee (gag, cough!!) headlines to find it on the web version. Its fun to see a swimmer other than Phelps or Coughlin get recognized. Its a great story.
That was a nice story. Unforunately nothing was said about swimming in USMS but maybe that was not important for the article. I know she swam at the 2004 USMS LC Nationals in Savannah and the 2005 LC Nationals in Mission Viejo. If I recall unlike this meet, she was anounced when she swam. I don't think Mark Gill would miss something like this when he announces.
I remember Allison Wagner winning the 400 IM at the Olympic Trials in 1996 but it was basically ignored because of the disqualification of Kristine Quance and all of the press and TV coverage seemed to be on that very controversial decision. Those two swimmers were basically the best IM swimmers at the time and kinda of inherited that title from Summer Sanders. In fact Sanders tried to make a comeback against those two and fell short at the 1996 Olympic Trials in the 200 IM.
Allison Wagner is the only swimmer currently to have a FINA World Record in both Swimming and Masters Swimming. The World Records are in the 200 IM and the FINA Swimming one is in the SCM at 2:07.79 that was done in Spain in December 1993. The Masters World Record was done at the 2005 USMS LC Nationals with a time of 2:21.98 in the 25-29 age group.
I noticed that she is becoming a sprinter since joining Terri McKeever at Cal. She had a great start in USMS.
www.usms.org/.../toptenind.phpwww.usms.org/.../indaa.php
That was a nice story. Unforunately nothing was said about swimming in USMS but maybe that was not important for the article. I know she swam at the 2004 USMS LC Nationals in Savannah and the 2005 LC Nationals in Mission Viejo. If I recall unlike this meet, she was anounced when she swam. I don't think Mark Gill would miss something like this when he announces.
I remember Allison Wagner winning the 400 IM at the Olympic Trials in 1996 but it was basically ignored because of the disqualification of Kristine Quance and all of the press and TV coverage seemed to be on that very controversial decision. Those two swimmers were basically the best IM swimmers at the time and kinda of inherited that title from Summer Sanders. In fact Sanders tried to make a comeback against those two and fell short at the 1996 Olympic Trials in the 200 IM.
Allison Wagner is the only swimmer currently to have a FINA World Record in both Swimming and Masters Swimming. The World Records are in the 200 IM and the FINA Swimming one is in the SCM at 2:07.79 that was done in Spain in December 1993. The Masters World Record was done at the 2005 USMS LC Nationals with a time of 2:21.98 in the 25-29 age group.
I noticed that she is becoming a sprinter since joining Terri McKeever at Cal. She had a great start in USMS.
www.usms.org/.../toptenind.phpwww.usms.org/.../indaa.php
