2009 USMS Zone Championships

Jim, No matter what records you have, the important thing is..you will always hail from.....Allegheny Mountain! Go Steelers! (I love saying that down here, except if I think it will REALLY get me beaten up). Laura and Mark Glass are a USMS love story. They met at 2006 SC zones in Houston. Jill Gellatly played a pivotal role in allowing them to get connected. Mark Glass swam at 2005 nationals with open turns; he didn't know how to flip turn. Either that or he had just learned how to flip turn. Over the next several years, he branched out and now swim others strokes, too. This year, he went to USA Sectionals in the 50 free! AMAZING how his swimming has come along! Laura is a wonderful person. She was an age group phenom and swam a few years at TCU, then transferred to UT on a rowing scholarship. She was also in the honors academic program, or something like that. Whatever that track is for really smart college people. They got married last summer and I was honored to be invited, in fact they invited my whole family which is no small thing as we all know the invites are x$ per person. What an honor. Laura is swimming lifetime bests. Her 50 free of 23.7 would have made winter USA nationals, 2008. (She already has a USA time of 23.8 which she did about 20 minutes later after a 1:05 100 *** at USA Sectionals AND me standing on the side of her lane 1 yelling Go Laura Yeah! Which only made her laugh.) She wore a full length FS PRo racerback at zones (and at USA Sectionals). I can't say enough good things about Laura & Mark. They are wonderful people and fun to swim with.

Jim, No matter what records you have, the important thing is..you will always hail from.....Allegheny Mountain! Go Steelers! (I love saying that down here, except if I think it will REALLY get me beaten up). Laura and Mark Glass are a USMS love story. They met at 2006 SC zones in Houston. Jill Gellatly played a pivotal role in allowing them to get connected. Mark Glass swam at 2005 nationals with open turns; he didn't know how to flip turn. Either that or he had just learned how to flip turn. Over the next several years, he branched out and now swim others strokes, too. This year, he went to USA Sectionals in the 50 free! AMAZING how his swimming has come along! Laura is a wonderful person. She was an age group phenom and swam a few years at TCU, then transferred to UT on a rowing scholarship. She was also in the honors academic program, or something like that. Whatever that track is for really smart college people. They got married last summer and I was honored to be invited, in fact they invited my whole family which is no small thing as we all know the invites are x$ per person. What an honor. Laura is swimming lifetime bests. Her 50 free of 23.7 would have made winter USA nationals, 2008. (She already has a USA time of 23.8 which she did about 20 minutes later after a 1:05 100 *** at USA Sectionals AND me standing on the side of her lane 1 yelling Go Laura Yeah! Which only made her laugh.) She wore a full length FS PRo racerback at zones (and at USA Sectionals). I can't say enough good things about Laura & Mark. They are wonderful people and fun to swim with.