GOLD swimmers collect gold, silver, bronze medals
in pool, open water
USMS SCY Nationals:
Gold, silver, and bronze medals came in bunches for GOLD
swimmers at the April 26-29 USMS SCY Nationals in Greensboro NC. National
champions were Katie Broussard (100 fly), Pat Sargeant (50
free, 100 free, 50 fly), Maureen Hughes (50 back), Jeannie Mitchell
(50 back, 100 back), Todd Pace (50 free, 50 fly), and Tim Shead
(400 IM). Silver and bronze medal winners were Broussard (3 events),
Sargeant (3 events), Peggy McDonnell (5 events), Mitchell
(1 event), Al Moreno (1 event), Shead (5 events), Ahmed Hamada
(1 event), Wally Dobler (1 event), and the 55+ mixed relay of Hughes,
Shead, Sargeant, and Hamada).
Open Water Festival 5K: Gold medal
winners at the April 29 Open Water Festival 5K at Miromar Lakes in Fort
Myers were Ricardo Valdivia (1st male overall) and Thomas Krasner.
Carlos Lloreda won silver in his age group and was sixth male overall.
Links to complete results for both events are on the Dixie Zone meets page.
Lightning, squall interrupt Team Hammerhead marathon
swim
 The Team Hammerhead
Aquatics Relay of Bill Korey, Andrea Woodburn, and Jonathan Olsen
celebrated Earth Day by swimming in the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim on Saturday,
April 21.
This 24 mile ultra-distance marathon swim race started at the Sunshine
Skyway Bridge and ended on the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa, in
a race that covers the entire length of Tampa Bay. The event is held each
year to celebrate Earth Day and the revitalization of Florida's largest
estuary. This is the longest race that is sanctioned by United States Masters
Swimming.
After swimming in Tampa Bay, battling wind and waves for 6 hours, 25
minutes, approaching lightning ended the event before any of the 16 individual
swimmers or three relay teams were able to reach the finish line.
2012 Check-off Challenge underway
The 2012 USMS Check-off Challenge is underway. Get a T-shirt to keep
track of events and check off each one completed. The 2012 Check-off Challenge
is sponsored by Hammerhead Aquatics. Information
2011 GOLD relay All-Americans announced
USMS has released its final list of USMS swimmers who were relay All-Americans
during 2011.
GOLD All-Americans were Katie
Broussard (37), Cav Cavanaugh (76), Debbie Cavanaugh
(53), Jose E Ferraz (66), Barry Gollop (55), Maureen C
Hughes (57), Joseph M Lammert (72), Dale A LeClair (42),
Peggy H McDonnell (55), Jeannie Mitchell (65), Carolyn
Mizell (44), Danielle Ogier (58), Todd H Pace (43), Barbara
Protzman (56), David Quiggin (67), Howard Rolston (71),
Pat A Sargeant (57), Timothy M Shead (58), Scott J Walker
(43), and Scott Woodburn (68).
2011 USMS Top 10 lists now online
Final USMS Top 10 lists for SCY (short course yards) and LCM (long course
meters) are published, and the preliminary SCM (short course meters) lists
is online to check for errors and corrections. Click here for individuals
or relays.
Two GOLD swimmers tops in 2011 open water
Ricardo Valdivia and Diane Babec won overall men's and
women's honors in the 2011 Florida Open Water Championship Series. Valdivia's
perfect score came from overall victories in the Swim Miami 4K, the Tropical
Splash 5K, and the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim. He was also All-American in
the USMS 10K Open Water Championships and second place overall. Babec
won the women's division with a fourth place overall (1st age group) finish
in the Swim Miami 4K, 10th overall (2nd age group) in the Crippen Mile,
and 12th overall (2nd age group) in the Tropical Splash 5K.
Other Florida Gold Coast LMSC swimmers placing were Luiz Andrade, UNAT,
1st in the 40-44 age group; Hugo Villa, UNAT, 2nd in the 45-49 age group;
and Bill Highsmith, UNAT, 1st in the 55-59 age group.
Register for 2012 USMS
 GOLD swimmers must register for 2012 and may
not attend organized club practices unless they have 2012 registration
(USMS insurance requirement).
Swimmers can either register with USMS online registration by clicking
the button at the right, or with a paper form which must be mailed in.
A link to the paper registration is on the Forms page.
Archive of previous years' news:
2008 ~ 2009 ~ 2010 ~ 2011
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