Why do we continue to lead off the 2nd,3rd and 4th days of the meet each year with a distance event? I can think of NOTHING more deadening to the atmosphere of a swim meet than dozens of heats of 400IM and 500 free. We need to start the meet with the 50 freestyle and get the place rockin' !! Stick the long events at the end of the meet each day after the relay and give the majority of participants the opportunity to spend less time at the pool.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
1. Women 1000 Freestyle 2. Men 1000 Freestyle
3. Women 1650 Freestyle 4. Men 1650 Freestyle
Friday, May 2, 2008
5. Women 400 Individual Medley 6. Men 400 Individual Medley
7. Women 50 Butterfly 8. Men 50 Butterfly
9. Women 200 Backstroke 10. Men 200 Backstroke
11. Women 100 Breaststroke 12. Men 100 Breaststroke
13. Women 50 Freestyle 14. Men 50 Freestyle
15. Mixed 200 Freestyle Relay
Saturday, May 3, 2008
17. Women 500 Freestyle
19. Women 100 Individual Medley 20. Men 100 Individual Medley
21. Women 200 Butterfly 22. Men 200 Butterfly
23. Women 100 Backstroke 24. Men 100 Backstroke
25. Women 50 Breaststroke 26. Men 50 Breaststroke
27. Women 200 Freestyle 28. Men 200 Freestyle
29. Mixed 200 Medley Relay
31. Women 200 Freestyle Relay 32. Men 200 Freestyle Relay
Sunday, May 4, 2008
34. Men 500 Freestyle
35. Women 200 Breaststroke 36. Men 200 Breaststroke
37. Women 100 Butterfly 38. Men 100 Butterfly
39. Women 50 Backstroke 40. Men 50 Backstroke
41. Women 200 Individual Medley 42. Men 200 Individual Medley
43. Women 100 Freestyle 44. Men 100 Freestyle
45. Women 200 Medley Relay 46. Men 200 Medley Relay
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I guess it's just my weird personality but I LOVE to watch swimming. I love to watch 20 year olds, 85 year olds, men and women. I love watching the mile. One of my greatest memories was watching Karen Burton at 1993 (I think) SCY nationals in Santa Clara beat up on most of the men swimming the event. I like to see Jim McConica and Graham Johnston swim those distances. I like to watch the 400 IM. I like to see Dennis Baker swim the 200 fly. Another of my great memories was watching Bill Specht and Scott Shake in 2001 LC at Federal Way both break the world record in the 200 back. I've watched some incredible matches in the 50 free. I can vividly remember my buddy Liz Hobbs race Tracy Moll in the finals in Santa Clara in 2001. I also saw Gary Hall Jr break the master's world record in the 50 fly at Mission Viejo in a beautiful swim.
If you don't like to watch swimming, maybe you don't like swimming. If you don't like swimming, for crying out loud, take up bowling! It's your sport, take advantage of it and then you won't have to read about the results at a meet where you supposedly attended.
As an aside, the problem with sprinters, mostly, is that they like their swim races like their sex: over before there's any involvement on their part.
Uh oh, am I going to get another black eye from the Hulk?
I guess it's just my weird personality but I LOVE to watch swimming. I love to watch 20 year olds, 85 year olds, men and women. I love watching the mile. One of my greatest memories was watching Karen Burton at 1993 (I think) SCY nationals in Santa Clara beat up on most of the men swimming the event. I like to see Jim McConica and Graham Johnston swim those distances. I like to watch the 400 IM. I like to see Dennis Baker swim the 200 fly. Another of my great memories was watching Bill Specht and Scott Shake in 2001 LC at Federal Way both break the world record in the 200 back. I've watched some incredible matches in the 50 free. I can vividly remember my buddy Liz Hobbs race Tracy Moll in the finals in Santa Clara in 2001. I also saw Gary Hall Jr break the master's world record in the 50 fly at Mission Viejo in a beautiful swim.
If you don't like to watch swimming, maybe you don't like swimming. If you don't like swimming, for crying out loud, take up bowling! It's your sport, take advantage of it and then you won't have to read about the results at a meet where you supposedly attended.
As an aside, the problem with sprinters, mostly, is that they like their swim races like their sex: over before there's any involvement on their part.
Uh oh, am I going to get another black eye from the Hulk?
