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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, November 3. A teacher at an average high school has a student for maybe three hours a week, on average, for either one or two semesters. The coach of a serious, year round swimmer, on the other hand, can be in charge of a youngster for upwards of 10 hours a week, for several years. Therefore...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 10. MOST parents want the best for their children, both academically and athletically. And, many parents push their children, both in school and on the playing field. It is widely acknowledged that too much pushiness can backfire psychologically. Is it possible that it can also backf...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, August 12. NOW that Rome is behind us, a quick perusal of the long course vs. short course records indicates that a number of the latter are quite vulnerable. This has been proven already by the new short course records set this past week -- and the World Cup season is still looming. Given t...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, August 3. AFTER having been glued to the Internet and TV for the past week watching the meet, here are the impressions of one fan, in no particular order:
* I'm sick of the new suits. But I'm even sicker of hearing about them. Lost in all the publicity over the suits were a host ...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3. EVIDENTLY there are talks being held about the possibility of a USA vs. Europe dual meet in the near future. The U.S. had previously taken on Australia, a misguided idea since discontinued. The U.S. has 290 million people, Australia only 17 million, and the meet had too much of a Dav...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 4. THERE's a big dichotomy right now between the official Masters records in the younger age groups and the unofficial ones. As the rules stand, in order to set an official FINA Masters world record you must do it in a Masters meet, or at least in a meet sanctioned by a Masters orga...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 25. SPORTS fans have always debated the hypothetical questions, for instance, how athletes from different eras would have fared against each other.
Luckily, with swimming, stopwatches have always been calibrated the same, so it's relatively easy to compare swimmers from different...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 4. THE discussion of late about the new suits has pretty much drowned out everything else, even news of new world records, which is sad.
We've all heard the arguments, pro and con. The pro argument basically boils down to, you can't stand in the way of progress. Proponents of...
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By Jeff Roddin
BETHESDA, Maryland, April 11. ON the afternoon of March 20th, the Montgomery Ancient Mariners hosted the 12th annual Albatross Open (SCM) in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Albatross Open saw four different swimmers set a total of seven individual USMS and/or FINA Masters World records. The record setting swimmers traveled from as ...
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By Phil Whitten and Mark Gill
TEMPE, Arizona, Oct. 27. ELEVEN Masters world records -- four by Karlyn Pipes-Neilson -- were broken on the second and final day of the Arizona Masters Short Course State Championships in Tempe today. An additional two USMS national records also bit the dust. In all, 19 world and 24 USMS marks fell during the two...
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