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!
Yeah, it's sort of like around 1990 you decided to retire from the event!
I was in grad school in the late 80s and swimming a few times a week was my exercise, while masters meets were part of my social outlet (in fact, I met my wife at one of those early masters meets, so that worked out).
I can barely remember back that far, but I think since I never really swam 50 free in HS or college I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. Apparently I wasn't very impressed. :)
Yeah, it's sort of like around 1990 you decided to retire from the event!
I was in grad school in the late 80s and swimming a few times a week was my exercise, while masters meets were part of my social outlet (in fact, I met my wife at one of those early masters meets, so that worked out).
I can barely remember back that far, but I think since I never really swam 50 free in HS or college I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. Apparently I wasn't very impressed. :)
