USMS World Record Holder Steve West Trains with his Daughter (VIDEO)

2018 LOS ANGELES INVITE

  • USC Uytengsu Aquatic Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • July 12th-15th
  • Prelims at 8:30 a.m., finals at 5 p.m.
  • Psych sheet
  • Results on Meet Mobile: “2018 CA Los Angeles Invite (1)”

When Summer West, then 14, qualified for the 2017 Los Angeles Invitational last summer, she figured that her dad, Masters world record holder Steve West, should have to do it with her too.

Lucky for him, he knew what to expect. Steve, now 46, swam his first LA Invite in the summer of 1988. SwimSwam caught up with the father-daughter duo last weekend, as both represented the Irvine Novaquatics at USC’s Uytengsu Aquatic center on the the 30th anniversary of Steve’s debut at the meet.

Summary of West’s Masters Career Accolades:

  • Oldest man to compete at Olympic Trials (he was 40 in 2012)
  • USMS ages 40-44 100 LCM breast national record: 1:03.76, set July 2012
  • USMS ages 45-49 100 LCM breast national record: 1:05.08, set May 2018
  • Ages 40-44 200 LCM breast world record: 2:18.57, set July 2015
  •  Ages 45-49 200 LCM breast world record: 2:19.46, set June 2018
  • Ages 40-44 100 SCM breast world record: 1:01.42, set December 2014
  • Ages 35-39 200 SCM breast world record: 2:14.36, set December 2013
  • Ages 40-44 200 SCM breast world record: 2:13.72, set December 2014

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GSWIMMER
6 years ago

The ageless wonder

Tony R
6 years ago

Have fun at PanAms Steve!! That was one of my all time favorite meets when I went in 2013!

Sane swim parent
6 years ago

Are swimmers allowed the masters option if they are swimming with age groupers?

sane swim parent
Reply to  Torrey Hart
6 years ago

I was trying to gauge whether he was swimming with kids from the interview. First he said he jumped in the lap lanes, but later on his daughter said he was over in the breaststroke lane while she was in the distance lane, which sounded like he was swimming with kids.

The legend Steve west’s daughter
Reply to  Sane swim parent
6 years ago

LA invite is a senior meet, so as long as you are registered in USA swimming you can swim at any age

CraigH
6 years ago

Beast!

Cucumber
6 years ago

The man is a Michigan legend, third at olympic trials in 1996 with 2:14.96 and 1995 NCAA champ.

Larry Weisenthal
Reply to  Cucumber
6 years ago

Steve’s Olympic Trials 200 breast — he was still in 2nd (qualifying) at the final flags, out touched at the end by Eric Wunderlich.

JP input is too short
6 years ago

I need this guy to teach me how to swim breaststroke…

JP Swim
Reply to  JP input is too short
6 years ago

Great Swimmer. Better guy

About Torrey Hart

Torrey Hart

Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majored in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swam distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.

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