Thanks to the efforts of the USMS History & Archives Committee, and the Records & Tabulation Committee, the USMS Top Ten listings now go back to 1971. John Bauman of Wisconsin and Barbara Dunbar of San Diego led the effort to collect and organize the old Top Ten listings. :cheerleader:
The Top Ten searchable database can be found here: http://www.usms.org/comp/tt/
Some of our active Forumites can be found in these listings. For example, search on Allen Stark's name and you'll see that he first made the USMS Top Ten as a 25-year-old in 1974. Rich Abrahams first appears in 1975, as a 30-year-old.
In terms of sheer numbers, it's hard to imagine anyone with more Top Ten swims than June Krauser. Since 1972 June has amassed a total of 1,372 individual Top Ten swims!
I have to ask how accurate is this list that is pre 1993? For example did the committee that put this together take the published lists without Errata? My understanding was that Top Ten lists for historical puposes were going to use the ERRATA because those swims were verified as corrected after publication.
When I was my LMSC Top Ten Recorder about 20 years or so ago, there was a list that was published during the year called the ERRATA and that was the swims that were missed for Top Ten that were not the fault of the swimmer or the LMSC. For example, there was one year (1989) where submissions were lost in the mail. I have that list for the 1988/1989 USMS National Top Ten Short Course Yards ERRATA and it appears that none of the swims from around the country that were corrected were in the final list for that season in this 1989 SCY Top Ten.
I have not checked other years, but I am wondering if any ERRATA data was included in these lists. When I was the LMSC Top Ten Recorder, there was no internet and no meet results data base. Everything was done manually. In fact I don't believe there was a Hy tek Meet Mananger program that was for Masters until 1993.
There was probably more errors and omissions because everything was done manually in the early and mid 1980's. The ERRATA is still published after every course but there is not as much data to report because the requirements today are so much better than in the past.
So the question I ask is this just the Top Ten list without the ERRATA corrections that were published during the year?
I have to ask how accurate is this list that is pre 1993? For example did the committee that put this together take the published lists without Errata? My understanding was that Top Ten lists for historical puposes were going to use the ERRATA because those swims were verified as corrected after publication.
When I was my LMSC Top Ten Recorder about 20 years or so ago, there was a list that was published during the year called the ERRATA and that was the swims that were missed for Top Ten that were not the fault of the swimmer or the LMSC. For example, there was one year (1989) where submissions were lost in the mail. I have that list for the 1988/1989 USMS National Top Ten Short Course Yards ERRATA and it appears that none of the swims from around the country that were corrected were in the final list for that season in this 1989 SCY Top Ten.
I have not checked other years, but I am wondering if any ERRATA data was included in these lists. When I was the LMSC Top Ten Recorder, there was no internet and no meet results data base. Everything was done manually. In fact I don't believe there was a Hy tek Meet Mananger program that was for Masters until 1993.
There was probably more errors and omissions because everything was done manually in the early and mid 1980's. The ERRATA is still published after every course but there is not as much data to report because the requirements today are so much better than in the past.
So the question I ask is this just the Top Ten list without the ERRATA corrections that were published during the year?
