By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
While Enhanced Games swim coach Brett Hawke has withdrawn from this weekend’s Aqua Knuckles SCM Masters Swim Meet in California, there are still multiple other storylines that make the meet an interesting one to follow.
A New Age Group Unlocked for a Legendary Swimmer
One is the entry of Maurine Kornfeld, one of Masters Swimming’s most legendary names.
Kornfeld will turn 105 years old later this month (November 27) after the meet, but under World Aquatics rules, she is officially in the 105-109 age group because she will be 105 by the end of the year.
Neither US Masters Swimming nor World Aquatics currently recognize any records for women in short course meters in the 105-109 age group, which means that every event she legally finishes will be a new National and World Record in her age group (unless another 105 year old has raced this year and not yet reported results).
Kornfeld has set 85 USMS Records in her career and has an astonishing 829 Top Ten achievements. She also currently holds 10 World Records, all in the 95-99, 100-104, and 105-109 age groups.
She learned how to swim as a child and stopped swimming for over 60 years before picking the sport back up in her 60s. She made her Masters debut in the 65-69 age group.
She is the only long course World Record holder in the 105-109 age group, having swum a 2:05.63 in the 50 meter backstroke in June. Canadian Jaring Timmerman is the only short course meters World Record holder in the age group, holding marks in the 50 free and 50 back from January 2014.
Kornfeld is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
A World Champion Takes On a New Challenge
A swimmer at very much the other end of the Masters swimming spectrum is 27-year-old Michael Andrew, who USMS has confirmed is now an official member.
He will represent Fullerton Masters at the meet, the same team as former short course meters World Record holder Coleman Stewart. Sean Kao, the head coach of Aquatic Sports Performance, is also entered in the meet.
Along with Stefano Mitchell, a 2020 Olympian for Antigua and Barbuda, Fullerton FAST Masters has four men entered: enough for a relay.
The 25-29 Masters World Record book is loaded with big names, including Ryan Held, Cesar Cielo, Darian Townsend, and Josh Prenot. Andrew is capable of breaking several of those records, but he’ll have to be on form to do so.
Andrew represented the U.S. at the 2020 Olympic Games where he swam the breaststroke leg of the gold medal and World Record setting men’s 400 medley relay.
He is also a 4-time World Junior Champion, 7-time World Champion, 20-time World Championship medalist, and individually the 2016 World Champion in short course meters in the 100 IM.
Other recognizable names in the entries include Canadian Olympian and swim writer Casey Barrett, and former US National Teamer Madison Kennedy.
The meet is offering $100 cash prizes for individual World Records and $200 cash prizes for relay World Records.
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