2011 SCY Nats in Mesa, AZ

I need to look at the final stats, but it seemed to me many more records were set on the women's side. Possibly because the new suit rules don't affect women as much as men? Here's the thing I noticed and of course it might be totally bogus since these are the swims I paid attention to, but the superstars are still swimming fast whereas the great unwashed seem to be slower on the whole. My theory is the suits affected them less. Their technique is so good that the tech suits didn't help them as much as other, less talented, swimmers. Any thought on this from anyone else? Here is the list: www.usms.org/.../records.pdf According to my count, there were 41 new individual records set, 23 on the women's side and 18 on the men's. That's not definitive. 24 of the records were set by "newly aged-up" swimmers. That is much higher than random, but that is to be expected: the swimmers are (a) young and (b) new to the age group. I don't know if it unusually high compared to other years. It may also be that some of the other 17 records were by people swimming in their new age group for the first time even though their ages don't end in 0 or 5 (eg, I don't remember Josh Davis swimming last year). As far as the suits affecting slower people more than faster: maybe. I remember some people reporting really phenomenal improvements with the suits, the likes of which would put some of the fastest masters swimmers in NCAA finals or something.

I need to look at the final stats, but it seemed to me many more records were set on the women's side. Possibly because the new suit rules don't affect women as much as men? Here's the thing I noticed and of course it might be totally bogus since these are the swims I paid attention to, but the superstars are still swimming fast whereas the great unwashed seem to be slower on the whole. My theory is the suits affected them less. Their technique is so good that the tech suits didn't help them as much as other, less talented, swimmers. Any thought on this from anyone else? Here is the list: www.usms.org/.../records.pdf According to my count, there were 41 new individual records set, 23 on the women's side and 18 on the men's. That's not definitive. 24 of the records were set by "newly aged-up" swimmers. That is much higher than random, but that is to be expected: the swimmers are (a) young and (b) new to the age group. I don't know if it unusually high compared to other years. It may also be that some of the other 17 records were by people swimming in their new age group for the first time even though their ages don't end in 0 or 5 (eg, I don't remember Josh Davis swimming last year). As far as the suits affecting slower people more than faster: maybe. I remember some people reporting really phenomenal improvements with the suits, the likes of which would put some of the fastest masters swimmers in NCAA finals or something.