Why not create and organize some new teams by college names under separate USMS affiliations to help create additional interest in Masters Swimming an potentially recruite former swimming alumni for relays?
I know several 40+ Texas alumns that could crush old SMU (pigmy horses) in a 200 medley.
John Smith
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I participated a few times in an insane outrigger canoe race on Molokai called the Master Blaster. You gotta be over 40 and stupid to be eligible. Each guy on the six man crew chugs a 12oz beer, when all are done each crew rigs their canoe; this means tying on the iakos (outriggers) and the ama (the floaty thing that helps keep the canoe from huliing (flipping) Normally rigging for a race is a very precise routine and takes considerable time by very experienced people in order to get it just right. Not so at the Master Blaster, because once rigged, the boat is hurriedly launched for a six mile race up the coast interrupted every mile or so by going ashore to drink another beer. It's very competitive and huge quantities of aluminum cans (full of beer) are wagered on the outcome. The finish is at Kanakakai Harbor where a big luau, accompanied by, you guessed it, more beer drinking. The party is over when no one is left standing.
I participated a few times in an insane outrigger canoe race on Molokai called the Master Blaster. You gotta be over 40 and stupid to be eligible. Each guy on the six man crew chugs a 12oz beer, when all are done each crew rigs their canoe; this means tying on the iakos (outriggers) and the ama (the floaty thing that helps keep the canoe from huliing (flipping) Normally rigging for a race is a very precise routine and takes considerable time by very experienced people in order to get it just right. Not so at the Master Blaster, because once rigged, the boat is hurriedly launched for a six mile race up the coast interrupted every mile or so by going ashore to drink another beer. It's very competitive and huge quantities of aluminum cans (full of beer) are wagered on the outcome. The finish is at Kanakakai Harbor where a big luau, accompanied by, you guessed it, more beer drinking. The party is over when no one is left standing.
