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2012 Hour Swim National Championship

We're Number 2

The nearly-official, final results have been made known and DAM finished second behind NEM. With our second-highest ever team totals of 319 swimmers and 1.1 million yards, we were a tad short of rivaling their 509 swimmers.

As well as we swam and as much as many of you improved, it just turned into a giant math problem. The team with the most swimmers won. That's just a unique part of our sport. Without time periods or innings or roster sizes, there are events like this where it's just size that matters.
(Although if each of us had averaged 5,500 yards, it would have been a different story.)

The previous OHS record for participants was set in 2002 by NEM with 487 swimmers.
Complete and final-final results, including relays will be available in early March.

A HUGE THANK YOU to all the DAM swimmers who are part of our 2012 team. You're still #1 with us.

- Coach Stu

327 Swim 1,131,895 Yards

Congratulations hour swimmers. During the month of January, 327 DAM members swam 1,131,895 total yards in the USMS Speedo One Hour Postal National Championship. That's not as many total yards as last year, but more than the year before. DAM is once again trying to win the national title for the team with the most total yards tallied in the annual event. In the championship, DAM members swim as far as they can in an hour. The swim team with the highest total number of yards in the champ.

The sponsoring team -- Blue Wave Aquatics in Seattle -- will now tally the totals from all the participants and crown the national champion. That process can take several months.

Here is a comparison to efforts from previous years: