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New Hours at Ag School

By mark on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 3:18pm

Every Summer, our hours at the Ag School Pool change. As of Monday, June 15, our summer hours are:

Mon, Wed, Friday 7-8 PM
Sunday: 11-12 PM.
 

Some of our members were very surprised to find that no hours are officially listed on the pool schedule for the Masters Program. Instead, we were told that we will be given lanes, but that we have to share them with people who want to use them--something we try to do anyway.

I talked to Chris Neary today, who told me that our normal hours will pick up again in September. Until then,  we'll have to do our best to share the lanes between the first and second workout groups.


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Blue Seventy Steps Up...

By rachliz247 on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 3:27pm

These Tech Suit Companies aren't going to just roll over... This might get ugly

http://blueseventy.com/news/story/blueseventy_fina_approval_date_3rd_may_2009

Tech Suit Armageddon!

By mark on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 1:43pm

Today, on the site MetaFilter.com, I came across a posting discussing yesterday's FINA ruling regarding competition tech suits. It's a great collection of links, so I thought I just steal post it here.

Today FINA, swimming's international body, released a list of approved suits. And with that, swimming took its first step towards sanity or towards ruin, depending on where you stand. Since the approval of Speedo's LZR Racer before the Olympics and concomitant widespread destruction of world records, the swim community has been riven by the suits: Are they too much aid or are they just a technical improvement, like when tennis moved beyond the wooden racket? The debate is best catalyzed by the case of Fred Bousquet, first man under 19s in 50 yards and under 21s in 50 meters. Attacked by anti-suit zealot Craig Lord of SwimNews, Bousquet's coach fires back in a blog whose comments themselves do a great job of demonstrating the divide. (Lord responds.)

Meanwhile, Bluseventy, whose suit took swimming by storm for being cheaper, more durable , and — in the lead up to the Olympic Trials — more available than the LZR is nowhere on the list at all. Did Speedo, main sponsor of FINA, have anything to do with that?


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MGM takes 55th of 152 Teams At Nationals

By mark on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 6:33pm

MGM swimmers finished 55th out of 152 teams and continued to set team and state records at the National Short Course Masters Swimming Championships in Clovis, CA, Sunday. Leading the way was Chad Morris in the Men's 100 IM (left), setting a new Illinois State Record by swimming 53.84 in the Men's 30-34 age group. John Javorski swam the event in 56.47.

In the Men's 100-yard Freestyle, Javorski set a new team Record, taking 4th place overall, swimming 47.78 (video not yet posted) ; Morris took 5th place, swimming 48.08. Lonny Boeke swam 57.62 (pr); Mark Royko 1.00.59 (tr/pr).

In the 50 Backstroke, Javorski took 4th place overall, swimming the event in 26.30 (tr/pr). Boeke swam 31.24 (pr).

Mark Royko swam 33.37 in the 50-yard breast stroke (pr/tr).

UPDATE: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly reported the number of teams at USMS Short Course Nationals. The correct number is 152, up from 123.


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