Im canceling my subscription to Swimming World.
Yes all of the swimmers picked were VERY worthy and nothing against any of them or their accomplishments.
But your going to tell me that the panel who choose these 6 men and 6 women (and 8 runner ups) didn't deem Susan Von der Lippe worthy of this honor:
I guess something like a total of almost 30 Top 10 times in all 3 courses didn't count? nor did the tally of #1 times on those lists? And simply breaking 5 SCM world records over 2 days is...as we all know...a joke.
And I know this is a reach now...stay with me on this...but being the oldest female swimmer and the first over 40 to make Olympic Trials cuts all while working a job, raising kids/a family, training only 3x a week....yeah, yeah I know thats pushing it...so I won't even mention she made her second trials cuts a month ago since that was done over at an evil USS meet and SW is probably correct in their belief it "doesn't count" in the masters world.
Susan...nice try in 2007...but you'll need to step up a bit more in 2008 if you want to be considered.
There are no FINA 20007 World Rankings when the information on December 21, 2007 gets submitted for the magazine in April 2008. The FINA World Rankings get distributed two to three months later. So for that reason the best indicator of performances is the setting of FINA World Records that have been done defined by the critera by Swimming World, which is the end of the competitive year as defined by FINA. FINA updates its World Records on May 1 and November 1 of every year. So a lot of the USMS SCM Zone Championships that were after November 1 of last year did not get included as part of the critera. I think Paul was thinking of the World Records that Susan set after November 1, 2007.
Also the critera is that it must be set in a Masters Sanctions Meet and not other meets. Many years ago there were swimmers in the Top Ten and they set many USMS Records and were faster than the listed FINA Word Record but because they did not set there records in masters meets, there swims were ignored by FINA. World Records can only be established in a Masters meet sanction by a Member. And this is written in FINA rule MSW 6.2 per FINA Rule Book.
Since I was a member of the panel, its very time consuming to get all of the swimmers on the ballot for consideration. If Swimming World were to wait until 2007 FINA World Rankings were released, the top masters swimmers in the World for 2007 would not make the magazine until August 2008 at the earliest.
I have attached a link from a discussion last year on this same subject.
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
There are no FINA 20007 World Rankings when the information on December 21, 2007 gets submitted for the magazine in April 2008. The FINA World Rankings get distributed two to three months later. So for that reason the best indicator of performances is the setting of FINA World Records that have been done defined by the critera by Swimming World, which is the end of the competitive year as defined by FINA. FINA updates its World Records on May 1 and November 1 of every year. So a lot of the USMS SCM Zone Championships that were after November 1 of last year did not get included as part of the critera. I think Paul was thinking of the World Records that Susan set after November 1, 2007.
Also the critera is that it must be set in a Masters Sanctions Meet and not other meets. Many years ago there were swimmers in the Top Ten and they set many USMS Records and were faster than the listed FINA Word Record but because they did not set there records in masters meets, there swims were ignored by FINA. World Records can only be established in a Masters meet sanction by a Member. And this is written in FINA rule MSW 6.2 per FINA Rule Book.
Since I was a member of the panel, its very time consuming to get all of the swimmers on the ballot for consideration. If Swimming World were to wait until 2007 FINA World Rankings were released, the top masters swimmers in the World for 2007 would not make the magazine until August 2008 at the earliest.
I have attached a link from a discussion last year on this same subject.
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
