2009 USMS Zone Championships

[ande]

2009 USMS SCY Zone Championships

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2009 USMS South Central SCY Zone Championships
Southlake, Texas
Fri Mar 27th - Sun Mar 29th

[The Fortress]

Michelle Chow swam super fast in this meet -- in all 4 strokes!

Colonies Zones is at http://www.patriotmasters.org/Coloni...2009.Entry.pdf

April 24-26

[jim thornton]

Leslie, could you please ask the Powers that Be in your wonderful Zone to update the Zonesman Records in the LCM and SCM categories? I am currently a tri-venue Zonesman, and I feel certain such status will not last much longer, but would like to have my ephemerati listed for all spider bots crawling over the web to register and celebrate in one place, and one time, in their creepy spidery way!

By the end of our upcoming SCY Zones meet, I suspect I will be a bi-venue Zonesman. By the end of next summers LCM meet, a uni-venue Zonesman. And by the end of next winter's SCM meet, a nul-venue Zonesman.

Please, let me have my three-headed salad days officially posted for one last brief interlude in human history!

[ande]

Michelle wore a LZR in most of her races.

Laura "Holt" Glass was the fastest woman at the meet.
She held Texas & National age group records I think as a 10 & under and maybe in 11 & 12 too. One of those rare breastroker / backstrokers.
Decent Freestyle
She is STRONG

Tyler had an excellent 400 IM, he opted to swim 2 events each day.

Michelle Chow swam super fast in this meet -- in all 4 strokes!

[mpmartin]

Damn Ande you are fast.... and I am so SLOW... Congratulations!

[The Fortress]

Michelle wore a LZR in most of her races.

Laura "Holt" Glass was the fastest woman at the meet.

I hope Michelle wore it since she's not going to Clovis to kick a$$ there. Laura Glass is very fast, but she is 28.

QBrain had good swims too.

Jimby,

I don't think CZ keeps SCM records ... Or not that I know of ... Jeff keeps track of the LCM records, so you can take your request up with him!

[jim thornton]

Leslie, go to this link and you will find the records, which do NOT appear to have been updated lately for LCM or SCM, though my Zonesman status is duly noted in the SCY...

http://www.colonieszone.org/comp/zonerecordsscy.htm#TOP

Note: you are currently a bi-venue zoneswoman, thanks to outstanding times in 2007. But 2008 have not been added yet for LCM or SCM, only SCY.

Please let Mr. Roddin know it is time to stop doing his beer training swims and hit the computer. Hard!

[jim clemmons]

Jimbo -

It appears that both the 1000 and 1650 await your effort. Go get 'em!

[chowmi]

Jim,

No matter what records you have, the important thing is..you will always hail from.....Allegheny Mountain! Go Steelers! (I love saying that down here, except if I think it will REALLY get me beaten up).

Laura and Mark Glass are a USMS love story. They met at 2006 SC zones in Houston. Jill Gellatly played a pivotal role in allowing them to get connected.

Mark Glass swam at 2005 nationals with open turns; he didn't know how to flip turn. Either that or he had just learned how to flip turn. Over the next several years, he branched out and now swim others strokes, too. This year, he went to USA Sectionals in the 50 free! AMAZING how his swimming has come along!

Laura is a wonderful person. She was an age group phenom and swam a few years at TCU, then transferred to UT on a rowing scholarship. She was also in the honors academic program, or something like that. Whatever that track is for really smart college people.

They got married last summer and I was honored to be invited, in fact they invited my whole family which is no small thing as we all know the invites are x$ per person. What an honor.

Laura is swimming lifetime bests. Her 50 free of 23.7 would have made winter USA nationals, 2008. (She already has a USA time of 23.8 which she did about 20 minutes later after a 1:05 100 breast at USA Sectionals AND me standing on the side of her lane 1 yelling Go Laura Yeah! Which only made her laugh.)

She wore a full length FS PRo racerback at zones (and at USA Sectionals).

I can't say enough good things about Laura & Mark. They are wonderful people and fun to swim with.

[hofffam]

I was at the same meet as Ande and Chowmi.....

I was impressed with many swims. I almost never watch the distance events but I was impressed with Chris Derks' (38) 9:50.36 1000 free. Beat the next closest (the great Larry Wood) by 1:01.

Laura Glass' 50 breaststroke was something to see.

One guy swam the 1000 free as a 1000 fly. Don't know why.

[pwb]

....

I was impressed with many swims. I almost never watch the distance events but I was impressed with Chris Derks' (38) 9:50.36 1000 free.

I only watched the results and was impressed with this. I have to make my way to Texas in 2010 to do some racing. His mile @ 16:29 was even more impressive IMHO.

[Gdavis]

2009 New England LMSC Short Course Yards Championship

Results at:

http://www.meetresults.com/2009/nelmscscy/results.shtml

Mike Ross dazzled us with his speed!

[pwb]

2009 New England LMSC Short Course Yards Championship

Results at:

http://www.meetresults.com/2009/nelmscscy/results.shtml

Mike Ross dazzled us with his speed!

... and Ethan Saulnier with his endurance ... the mile time to beat across all age groups this year:
1 Saulnier, Ethan 38 Y of North Shore 16:05.78

[tjrpatt]

I was able to see some of the New England races online live which was very cool. It is so funny how the New England meet is actually larger than Colonies Zones. Plus, there is so much talent in all of those small little states.

16:05 in the mile, what is the Olympic Trial or National Cut? Wow, really impressive at any age.

I hate that my Zones are so late this year. Next year, I might have to taper for some meet in March since it did wonders for pwbrundage.

[Jayhawk]

2009 Breadbasket Zone Championships

Results at:

http://www.movymasters.org/20090329Z...ResultsSCY.htm

New national record in the 65-69, 50 Breast by Peter Anderson.

[some_girl]

I was able to see some of the New England races online live which was very cool. It is so funny how the New England meet is actually larger than Colonies Zones. Plus, there is so much talent in all of those small little states.

Part of it is that year in and year out it is the best run meet I have ever attended -- way better than any of the Nationals even. Positive check-in for every event means every heat is full and the folks putting on the meet get the heat sheets and results out faster than we really have any right to expect.

Then, it is three days instead of two and the numbers mean plenty of time between events, so you can swim a lot of events. Three a day plus relays is pretty doable, and you can try new events out or swim everything you want to. On top of that, the numbers combined with seeding by gender and time but not age mean every heat is competitive, which is so much fun and pretty hard to find (at least around here). And the pool is fantastic.

Plus, it is closer to New York than the Zones meet ever are, so NYC teams go too.

The last weekend in March has become one of my faves because it means I will always be there. (Helps I had a good meet too this year.) But seriously, if you ever have a chance, GO.

[tjrpatt]

But seriously, if you ever have a chance, GO.

Maybe I will look into it next year even though it is a pain to drive through NYC and it is a longer drive to Boston than in DC. We will see what happens. From one I saw online, they really got into the next heat pretty fast. Plus, swimming at that meet is kind of like nationals because there are quite a few Top Ten people that come from New England in my age group.

[Charge]

I did not have a great Zones, which is to be expected after not training for almost 3 months, but my swims were respectable for me.

22.95 50 free relay lead off
30.0 50 Breast
25.5 50 Fly
23.3 50 free

I kept having my goggle fill up with water on day 2, couldn't figure out why.

The Glass family kicked butt at that meet.

I was amazed at how often and how well Ande swam!

Michelle Chow had some great swims.

I always have fun watching Tyler swim.

I did catch a bit of sad news at the meet, apparently a highly ranked swimmer from WMST lost part of a finger or severely injured his hand on Friday in an accident with a belt sander, he and his wife missed the meat. Prayers go out to he and his wife as they deal with this.

[knelson]

I only watched the results and was impressed with this. I have to make my way to Texas in 2010 to do some racing. His mile @ 16:29 was even more impressive IMHO.

Certainly impressive, but sort of pales in comparison to the 16:32 he swam at LC Nats in the 1500.

[pwb]

Part of it is that year in and year out it is the best run meet I have ever attended -- way better than any of the Nationals even. Positive check-in for every event means every heat is full and the folks putting on the meet get the heat sheets and results out faster than we really have any right to expect.

Then, it is three days instead of two and the numbers mean plenty of time between events, so you can swim a lot of events. Three a day plus relays is pretty doable, and you can try new events out or swim everything you want to. On top of that, the numbers combined with seeding by gender and time but not age mean every heat is competitive, which is so much fun and pretty hard to find (at least around here). And the pool is fantastic.

Plus, it is closer to New York than the Zones meet ever are, so NYC teams go too.

The last weekend in March has become one of my faves because it means I will always be there. (Helps I had a good meet too this year.) But seriously, if you ever have a chance, GO.

This does sound good. Is it always held at Harvard or does the facility rotate? I swam @ Harvard back in the early 80s and remember it being a great pool.

Looking at all of these Zones meets gives me so many ideas of places to travel to swim in the future.