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.
Her making cuts for the Olympic Trials as a 42 year old, non "professional" masters swimmer may be the single greatest swim ever by a masters swimmer...you ignored it because it was done at a USS meet (a whole nother topic that uSMS needs to "fix"), not to mention the 5 WR performances in 2 days at a meet the last week of November (why would you have a deadline that would not count all the Zone SCM results in your evaluation??!!)...I'd say your guidelines need some reviewing if you don't think she merits an accord as one of the top 6 (10 when you count alternates) female masters swimmers of 2007.
One last note, your system is also flawed in that you don't count WR's set that are later broken...case in point Carolyn Krattli broke the SCM 100IM record and was never mentioned as a WR holder in that event?!
Her making cuts for the Olympic Trials as a 42 year old, non "professional" masters swimmer may be the single greatest swim ever by a masters swimmer...you ignored it because it was done at a USS meet (a whole nother topic that uSMS needs to "fix"), not to mention the 5 WR performances in 2 days at a meet the last week of November (why would you have a deadline that would not count all the Zone SCM results in your evaluation??!!)...I'd say your guidelines need some reviewing if you don't think she merits an accord as one of the top 6 (10 when you count alternates) female masters swimmers of 2007.
One last note, your system is also flawed in that you don't count WR's set that are later broken...case in point Carolyn Krattli broke the SCM 100IM record and was never mentioned as a WR holder in that event?!
