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Alaska State Swimming
Records
Click on your selection to the right to view a table
of Alaska State Records.
Short Course
Yard Records link here
Long Course Meter Records link here
Short Course Meter Records
link here
What do "SCY" and "LCM" stand
for?
The abbreviations SCY, and LCM stand for Short
Course Yards and Long Course Meters, respectively. A Short Course
Yards venue is 25 yards long, while a Long Course venue is 50
meters long. Generally, fall, winter and spring meets are held in
SCY venues, while many summer events take place in LCM
venues.
How do I figure out what my SCM time converts to in LCM
or vice versa?
The answer to this question seems pure and simple on
the surface, but there are many things to consider. Imagine taking
your present short course pool and making it 20 yards instead of 25
yards. Now imagine a race in the 100-yard freestyle or the 200-yard
freestyle. Who is going to perform better? The answer is, the
swimmer with the better turns (maybe).
Now, imagine
a pool that is 50 yards long, and races conducted in that pool
(still measured in yards). Are some swimmers going to have more
advantage than others? Also, for the sake of comparison,
let’s say swimmer "A" trains at least 9 months out of the
year in the 50 yard pool and swimmer "B" trains in the 20 yard
pool. Will there be a change in stroke technique between the
swimmers? It is very dangerous for us to give our swimmer’s a
false sense of either accomplishment, or, lack of confidence based
on a comparison of short course to long course
meters.
The bottom
line is someone is going to have a completely different performance
and there is no reliable way to make the comparison. Let’s
accept the fact that international events are conducted in 50-meter
pools and our country conducts most meets in 25-yard
pools.
For pools of
the same course (short or long) it’s pretty accurate to use
the British/metric conversion factor. There are 39.37 inches in a
meter, (or 2.54 cm in an inch) and you can thus multiply or divide
by 39.37/36.0 or 1.094. Note that converting between long and short
course is not so simple and is only done for estimation purposes.
Further, USS does not define or accept converted times for any
purpose. Meets at higher levels often post cut times for the
nonconforming courses.
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