The 2010-11 Short-Course Yards season ends on June 1, but not before some fast championship meets! Arguably the two most important to our LMSC are Colonies Zone SCY Championship, on Apr 15-17 in Fairfax, VA, and USMS Spring Nationals, which runs Apr 28-May 1 in Mesa, AZ. Many LMSC members will be competing in one or both of these events.

Zone Championship: Of the 500+ swimmers congregating at the GMUP pool in Fairfax, 64 of them will hail from our LMSC, representing 8 clubs (3 members will be swimming unattached): LAMS (1), QMST (7), SNOW(1), STON (4), SUNF (4), VMST (39), WAVA (4) and WMS (1). Check out the meet roster here, and see how your teammates are doing by following the real-time results. (Note: the meet/team roster here only includes those who registered online, not those who mailed in their entries.)

USMS Championship: a smaller, but no less dedicated, group is travelling out to Arizona: 31 swimmers (out of 1800+ total) representing QMST (4), SNOW (2), VMST (23) and WAVA (1), and one swimmer competing unattached. Click here to find the roster for a particular club, and follow the real-time results as the meet progresses.

The same weekend (April 14-17) as Zones is the YMCA Masters National Swimming Championship in Ft Lauderdale, FL. Not a bad place to go for a meet in April! At least 13members of our LMSC — including a large contingent from the Northern Neck YMCA — are competing. All are VMST members, but this is a recognized meet in which swimmers must represent a YMCA. Follow the action here.

The list of the championship competitors — 95 of them! — is given below (use the search box to filter by club or meet, or click on the column heading to sort); wish them luck next time you see them in the pool! Contact me if anyone is missing from this list.