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 was also wondering if Relays are going to be reported? USMS started publishing Top Ten Booklets starting with the 1991 SCM season and have published those booklets every year for every course up until now. I never understood why Relays only went back to 1998, when USMS had published Top Ten Booklets for 7 years starting in 1991.
Unless you were an LMSC Top Ten Recorder, the only place you could find the Top Ten list was in the Swim Master Newsletter that was published from 1971 until 1991 and the editor of that publication was June Krauser, who also happens to have 1372 swims in the Top Ten. Swimming World Magazine published lists in the early to mid 1970's.
Swim Swim Magazine, which was a magazine for masters swimmers published the list as well from 1978 until 1991. This magazine was a private magazine publication and changed there name to Swim Magazine with masters swimmers paying for subscriptions until 1993 when USMS partnered with Swim Magazine and every member received the magazine for free but the Top Ten lists were not included and you had to get the booklets for the lists.
Around 1997, the Top Ten lists starting appearing on the USMS web site. Carl House and Jim Matysek got this started and this was the start of what we have today. The reason I bring up this history is that these lists are great and easy to have today but were not always available easily back 25 to 30 years ago.
I was also wondering if Relays are going to be reported? USMS started publishing Top Ten Booklets starting with the 1991 SCM season and have published those booklets every year for every course up until now. I never understood why Relays only went back to 1998, when USMS had published Top Ten Booklets for 7 years starting in 1991.
Unless you were an LMSC Top Ten Recorder, the only place you could find the Top Ten list was in the Swim Master Newsletter that was published from 1971 until 1991 and the editor of that publication was June Krauser, who also happens to have 1372 swims in the Top Ten. Swimming World Magazine published lists in the early to mid 1970's.
Swim Swim Magazine, which was a magazine for masters swimmers published the list as well from 1978 until 1991. This magazine was a private magazine publication and changed there name to Swim Magazine with masters swimmers paying for subscriptions until 1993 when USMS partnered with Swim Magazine and every member received the magazine for free but the Top Ten lists were not included and you had to get the booklets for the lists.
Around 1997, the Top Ten lists starting appearing on the USMS web site. Carl House and Jim Matysek got this started and this was the start of what we have today. The reason I bring up this history is that these lists are great and easy to have today but were not always available easily back 25 to 30 years ago.
