After initially only accepting a handful, FINA has opted to accept all 8 of Indiana’s relays World Record setting relays set in September: just a few days after FINA first began accepting World Records in those events. Only two of the records were initially accepted.
Of course, these records (many of which have since been broken) will be credited to the United States, rather than Indiana, but this will be quite a coup for head coach Ray Looze to put on his coaching resume.
Initially, there was a question of whether swims would have to break a threshold before being considered as the initial FINA recognized World Records in that event, but today Indiana announced that instead they were just going to accept all of the swims. Of course, none of the swimmers, as they’re all NCAA athletes, will receive any World Record bonuses for their swims, which probably didn’t hurt in this decision.
The relay records as ratified by FINA are below. Though FINA is a bit lagged on their record recognition, the two that remain are the long course mixed records in the 400 mixed freestyle and medley relays, as far as we can tell:
400 Meter Mixed Medley Relay*
Allie Day, Mike Hurley, Tanner Kurz, Haley Lips – 4:13.47
200 Meter Medley Relay
Grace Padget, Heather Hayes, Bailey Pressey, Claudia Di Capua – 2:04.34
400 Meter Mixed Freestyle Relay*
Lindsay Vrooman, Kait Flederbach, Steve Schmuhl, Jackson Miller – 3:45.38
200 Meter Freestyle Relay
Cody Miller, James Wells, Matt Gerth, Philip Butler – 1:36.81
200 Meter Mixed Medley Relay
James Wells, Cody Miller, Gia Dalesandro, Olivia Barker – 1:49.87
200 Meter Mixed Freestyle Relay
Bailey Pressey, Stephanie Armstrong, Tanner Kurz, Cody Miller – 1:41.16
200 Meter Medley Relay
Curtis Goss, Blaine Nichols, Kyle Johnson, Tanner Kurz – 1:50.07
200 Meter Freestyle Relay
Stephanie Marchuk, Claudia Di Capua, Audrey Scott, Grace Padget – 1:54.97
Besides the mixed relay records, i don’t see how the regular relays are records, considering those aren’t the fastest ever done. There were faster times this summer at the Indiana Senior State Long Course Championships.
Is Matt Gerth still swimming for IU?
Peter, You might be a guy with too much time on your hands, but thanks for the shout-out. [if that’s still cool to say] I am definitely in the market for an illustrator…
Posting doesn’t take long for me. I have an unhealthy tie to my phone, and often dictate long posts with various speech software. I manage to work, coach, work-out, post more – and longer – elsewhere online, and have plenty of time to blow off steam at night and weekends to boot!
If you are serious, I will pass on the idea to her, and get her feedback. It would be a fun foray right!? I’m not worried about giving this out to the crowd here, so feel free to contact me so I can connect you with her and her world: [email protected]
I think I love you
Thanks, you’re a doll 😉
Heh. Heard about that. Gotta tip the hat to Coach Looze. He’s crafty.
His resume is voluminous as it is. A few of his less known, and most impressive(to me, at least), entries(TL;DR skip to end for the ADD crowd):
He was a CCS(Bay Area high school section) champion two years out here in the 200 IM, for the Serra Padres, and was class of ’86 I believe. He also broke up the three-peat threatened by the Cary Huff in the 100 breast, during Ray’s senior year. 1:51.0 and 57.4 out of HS, in the mid 80s. Not shabby.
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Wow, thanks for sharing Peter! I appreciated reading though that! As a senior in high school I am beginning my preliminary college search and will definitely give mr. Looze a ring when I get the chance. I love crafts, and you said it best, he’s crafty! So he must be a perfect fit for me. You’re the man Pete! Your comment is the reason swim swam allows people to comment on articles!
Have an A1 day,
Walter
Good to hear Walter. The ‘crafty’ is a reference to song lyrics. So it should probably just say he is an excellent coach, and we are sending a swimmer from our club to him next year. Maybe you’ll be teammates one day! Do your homework on the coaches and the programs. Pick a school for all the right reasons, and pick a program for its coach. Cheers
Sorry, I just wanted to pull off the internet equivalent of what Indiana did w/ those relays.
Win
Oh god that was good. *golf clap*
FIRST!