Nine World Record, 17 USMS Records Fall at Pacific Masters SCM Championships

By Michael Moore

WALNUT CREEK, California, October 23. LAURA Val, Paul Carter and Richard Todd combined to break nine world standards, while Laura Davis broke three USMS standards at the Pacific Masters Short Course Meter Championships. Meanwhile, two Walnut Creek Masters teams each broke a USMS relay record, while Val lowered a USMS record as well.

With more than 350 Masters swimmers competing at the three day annual championships, Val, 55, went on a tear with six world records in seven swims in the 55-59 age division. Over the course of the meet, Val set global standards in the 100 fly (1:10.67), 100 back (1:13.90), 200 back (2:42.43), 100 free (1:02.36) and 400 free (4:47.03). Additionally, she became the first female swimmer older than 55 to complete the 800 free in less then 10 minutes with a time of 9:54.40. She also set the USMS record in the 50 fly with a time of 32.14.

In other world record swims, Paul Carter set the 50-54 men's standard in the 100 fly with a time of 58.01 to take two seconds off the previous record. Meanwhile, Richard Todd broke the 65-69 record in the 100 breast with a time of 1:20.71 and in the 200 breast with a time of 2:59.11.

As for USMS records, the mixed 160+ medley relay of Lisa Ward, Roque Santos, Aaron Mikuni and Lelanne Crittenden clocked a time of 4:28.64 to break the previous record set in 1995 by more than four seconds. Additionally, Jim Perilman, Norman Stupfel, Emory Haworth and Robert Mayo broke the men's 200 medley relay standard with a time of 2:46.41.

Individually, Laura Davis set USMS records in the 18-24 division with time of 1:03.67 in the 100 fly, 2:23.78 in the 200 fly and 2:24.25 in the 200 IM.

Throughout the meet, there were many great races to watch. In the fastest heat of the 200 freestyle, Walnut Creek teammates Andy Nonaka and Andy Brown (both 25-29) held off the Manatee Ili Selinger (30-34) swimming in an outside lane.

Craig Dennis' son Andrew, swimming in his first meet in many years, came back to compete after Craig told him, "It's Masters, you can set your own interval, you can do as much or as little as you want, you could even move over a lane and do another stroke — it is your workout to choose." Andrew then swam a 1:00.45 in the 100 back to win the event in the 30-34 men.

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