2011 SCY Nats in Mesa, AZ

Good swims by Geek and Kurt Dickson in the 200 back. And Chris Stevenson's earns a copy-paste: Event 9 Men 45-49 200 Yard Backstroke ================================================================== NATL: N 1:55.05 3/7/2010 CHRIS STEVENSON Name Age Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 Stevenson, Chris L 46 VMST 1:55.05 1:55.04N 26.97 56.35 (29.38) 1:25.46 (29.11) 1:55.04 (29.58) :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

And how about that swim by Garrett McCaffrey? Holy cow, great swim! Event 9 Men 25-29 200 Yard Backstroke ================================================================== NATL: N 1:48.47 4/30/1995 JOHN KEPPELER Name Age Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 McCaffrey, Garrett W 28 PHX 1:58.51 1:51.95 26.46 55.07 (28.61) 1:23.58 (28.51) 1:51.95 (28.37)

Do they do flyover starts in masters? I'd imagine not but had to ask anyway :) Yes, they are doing flyovers at this meet.

Good swims by Geek and Kurt Dickson in the 200 back. And Chris Stevenson's earns a copy-paste: Event 9 Men 45-49 200 Yard Backstroke ================================================================== NATL: N 1:55.05 3/7/2010 CHRIS STEVENSON Name Age Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 Stevenson, Chris L 46 VMST 1:55.05 1:55.04N 26.97 56.35 (29.38) 1:25.46 (29.11) 1:55.04 (29.58) :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: Very impressive! Especially considering he spent all day yesterday in airports and didn't get into Phoenix until 2:30 am east coast time. 50 fly times in my age group were much slower this year. The winning time of 27.8 wouldn't even have made the top ten last year. More confirmation for my theory that the suits helped the short axis strokes relatively more.

Here's one that's copy-paste worthy: Event 6 Women 60-64 400 Yard IM ================================================================== NATL: N 5:27.07 5/21/2010 CHARLOTTE DAVIS Name Age Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 Davis, Charlotte M 61 PNA 5:27.00 5:20.51N 33.42 1:10.47 (37.05) 1:52.45 (41.98) 2:33.51 (41.06) 3:21.05 (47.54) 4:09.04 (47.99) 4:46.08 (37.04) 5:20.51 (34.43) 2 Guthrie, Sally K 61 MICH 6:22.79 6:28.40 I felt compelled to include second place to show how dominant Charlotte's swim was. She beat her own record by over six seconds and beat the second place swimmer in her age group by over one minute! :bow:

Here's one that's copy-paste worthy: Event 6 Women 60-64 400 Yard IM ================================================================== NATL: N 5:27.07 5/21/2010 CHARLOTTE DAVIS Name Age Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 Davis, Charlotte M 61 PNA 5:27.00 5:20.51N 33.42 1:10.47 (37.05) 1:52.45 (41.98) 2:33.51 (41.06) 3:21.05 (47.54) 4:09.04 (47.99) 4:46.08 (37.04) 5:20.51 (34.43) 2 Guthrie, Sally K 61 MICH 6:22.79 6:28.40 I felt compelled to include second place to show how dominant Charlotte's swim was. She beat her own record by over six seconds and beat the second place swimmer in her age group by over one minute! :bow: If I remember correctly, she knocked the record down by 12s last year, so she has peeled 18s off the record in just over a year. Definitely intimidating to the competition.

Good job Elaine! :) 28 Krugman, Elaine 49 GAJA 1:30.23 1:33.49 42.73 1:33.49 (50.76)

another tech suit era record goes down... Event 13 Men 50-54 50 Yard Freestyle ================================================================== NATL: N 21.38 5/10/2009 AMBROSE GAINES Name Age Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 Gaines, Ambrose 52 BLU 22.00 21.36N

He didn't get there in time and just missed his heat. :( Unfortunate. He did just post a nice 50 Fly time, good for 2nd place.

My :2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents: is bet on the fact that the 50 Fly was an hour or so afterward. :) Not a good excuse IMO. If you pay the money to sign up for the event, train for it, you might as well hop in a swim it too. Why does it matter to any of us what Ande's reason(s) for missing the event are? If he purposefully missed it to save up for an event or if it was by accident, who are we to judge him? This is his meet, he can swim or not swim the events he wants too.