Hey everyone! Another great swimming article in the New York Times today with pictures! Would someone please add a link? I don't know how; only get the hardcopy edition.
She is so awesome!!!!!
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Swimmer Bill...as I told Mr. Commings this morning, my point in calling out the process of voting by SW is that you sometimes have to look beyond only stats/formulas (fire away Chris!) in deciding things like these awards. I think their putting Laura V on the cover and their promotion of masters is awesome...they just missed the boat on leaving SVDL out this year as they will next year because she won't be swimming in the meets they use to score by.
Back when I was part of the panel, we did look beyond stats. We also considered swimmers who primarily participated in open water and long distance events. I fought hard for Wally Dicks, Tom Landis, Greg Shaw, and even you - swimmers who had fewer records and AA's than other swimmers, but whose swims were of exceptional quality.
When we did that, people who had more records and AA's whined about not being on the list. As you can imagine, I've seen a lot of that, but never from SvdL.
Swimmer Bill...as I told Mr. Commings this morning, my point in calling out the process of voting by SW is that you sometimes have to look beyond only stats/formulas (fire away Chris!) in deciding things like these awards. I think their putting Laura V on the cover and their promotion of masters is awesome...they just missed the boat on leaving SVDL out this year as they will next year because she won't be swimming in the meets they use to score by.
Back when I was part of the panel, we did look beyond stats. We also considered swimmers who primarily participated in open water and long distance events. I fought hard for Wally Dicks, Tom Landis, Greg Shaw, and even you - swimmers who had fewer records and AA's than other swimmers, but whose swims were of exceptional quality.
When we did that, people who had more records and AA's whined about not being on the list. As you can imagine, I've seen a lot of that, but never from SvdL.
