2018 Gil Young Summer Madness


Aubree Gustafson and Dennis Baker represent Oregon Reign Masters as they receive the 1st place team banner. [other team winners below]

Aubree Gustafson and Dennis Baker represent Oregon Reign Masters as they receive the 1st place team banner. [other team winners below]

Oregon Reigned Supreme at the 2018 Gil Young Memorial Meet that doubled as the Northwest Zone and Oregon Long Course championships.  Home team Oregon Reign took the Championship title with 429 points followed by Southern Oregon Masters who scored 238, and the Oregon City Tankers with 170 points.

Sue Calnek-Morris set 4 Oregon and 4 Zone records at the Gil Young meet.

Sue Calnek-Morris set
4 Oregon and 4 Zone
records at the Gil Young
meet.

Two world records and thirteen zone records were set over the pleasantly warm weekend at Mt Hood Community College in Gresham.  In the womens 70-74 age group, Margaret Toppel swam to a world record 32.89 in the 50 M Free and set a zone mark of 37.36 in the 50 M Fly.  Sue Calnek-Morris, set new zone records in the women’s 75-79 age group four out of the five times she dove into the pool, swimming a 41.73 in the 50 M free, 15:18.99 in the 800 M free, 28:36.12 1500 M Free and a 56. 61 in the 50M Breaststroke.  She was followed by Collette Crabbe, age group 60-64, who swam to two new zone marks when she flew to a 11:16.10 in the 800 M Free, 3:13.31 in the 200 M Breaststroke.  Dan Kirkland, age group 70-74, swimming out of Puget Sound Masters traveled south to set a world record 20:26.12 in the 1500 M Free.  He also set a National record in the 400m Free, and a Zone record in the 800m Free, and a Zone record in the 100m Back.

Adding to the fun of relays was the record-setting team of Karen Andrus-Hughes, Robert Smith, David Radcliff and Colette Crabbe who set a zone record of 5:16.94 in the 280-319 age group 400 M Mixed Freestyle Relay.  The Gil Young meet is always a great opportunity for northwest swimmers to enjoy an outdoor meet in both shade and sun, and is one we look forward to every year.  See you next time!

Photos of the 2nd through 5th place teams

Please also see the PDF version of the AquaMaster for more details and photos:
Link to AquaMaster

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