Saturday Prelims from the Speedo Champions Meet

On Saturday AM, Matt Papenfuss was in the water swimming the 50 FR prelim as well as the 500 Prelim.

Matt was seeded with a 20.79 in the 50 FR and ended up swimming a 21.37 in Prelims, placing him with the fastest seed in the "C" Final Saturday Evening.

Shortly thereafter, he swam his 500 Freestyle prelim. He swam his race in a 4:40.96 placing him in that "C" final as well.

It is a very competitive field at the Speedo Champions Meet and a very interesting one. Swimmers are from all over the Midwest and the races are Open" classes meaning any age. While I was scanning the 50 FR results I did a double take. One of the swimmers in the 50 FR "B" Finals is 38years old? I had to look into it and it turns out he was a member of the Russian Olympic Team back in 1992. He is now a coach in Illinois that still swims Masters events and the odd Open Class USA Meet apparently. I did not pick up on it in the psyc sheet, but it appears he swam in the same prelim heat as Matt did. I wonder what Matt thought as he looked over and saw a guy a little over twice his age on the blocks? Then finished behind him. Should add a little more motivation to the training maybe?