BELFAST — Every year, as the United States Masters’ 25-year-course year approaches its end, swimmers flock to the Dan Horton meet at Waldo County YMCA in Belfast.

Sarah King, 34, was the first to arrive. She drove from the Catskills to try to better five of her 2016-2017 times. Most of the competitors, though, were from the Waldo County and Penobscot Bay Area YMCAs.

Among the 10 Belfast swimmers were Dan Horton himself and Robert Winslow, both 68, whom generations of Waldo County people have known as swimming coaches and life coaches, and Eryn Thostenson, 24, current YMCA masters and Bluefish coach. Other Waldo County swimmers were Unity professor Pieter deHart from Thorndike, Dr. Peter Millard of Belfast, Alan Gibson, Joseph Stilwell and Doug Blasius from Belfast, Rebecca Harrison from Unity and Evan Hutchins from Swanville.

Pen Bay YMCA’s delegation was depleted by a conflicting Swimming Saves Lives class for adults, taught by volunteer masters swimmers. Bill Jones (Hope), Frank Giustra (Waldoboro) and Peter Giustra (Warren) were at one end of the age spectrum while Lianne and Mark McCluskey (Hope) were at the other. Lianne is Pen Bay YMCA’s Sailfish coach.

Results are still being checked for records, but Lianne McCluskey’s 400 individual medley and 200 breaststroke at 25-29 women may both qualify as Maine records. Jones, fresh from new Maine and New England records in Massachusetts, hoped for more in Belfast. Not only was he limited to a Maine record in the 80-84 men’s 100 free, but he failed in attempts at breaststroke records and lost to his old Bowdoin nemesis, Dr. Houghton White III from Brunswick. White, who competed for the first time in 59 years, set Maine records in the 80-84 men’s 50 and 100 breast and broke Mainer Hans Wendel’s New England record in the 100.

A good number of the competitors retired to Rollie’s after the meet for food and socializing.

Below are the results of the competition:

50 back
18-24 women - Rebecca Harrison, Unity, 46.53, 2nd
50-4 men - Alan Gibson, Belfast, 37.59, 1st
65-9 men - Robert Winslow, Belfast, 40.40, 1st

100 breast
18-24 women - Eryn Thostenson, Belfast, 1:34.04, 1st
65-9 men - Dan Horton, Belfast, 2:03.63, 3rd
75-9 men - Peter Giustra, Warren, 2:01.19, 1st
80-4 men - Bill Jones, Hope, 1:52.39, 2nd

200 fly
30-4 men - Joseph Stilwell, Belfast, 2:43.57, 1st

50 free
18-24 men - Mark McCluskey, Hope, 23.04, 1st
18-24 women - Rebecca Harrison, Unity, 38.22, 2nd
25-9 men - Evan Hutchins, Swanville, 25.82, 1st
35-9 men - Pieter deHart, Thorndike, 23.44, 1st
60-4 men - Doug Blasius, Belfast, 41.95, 2nd
65-9 men - Robert Winslow, Belfast, 37.93, 2nd
- Dan Horton, Belfast, 39.12, 3rd
75-9 men - Peter Giustra, Warren, 37.14, 1st
80-4 men - Frank Giustra, Waldoboro, 44.87, 1st

400 individual medley
25-9 women - Lianne McCluskey, Hope, 5:23.46, 1st

50 breast
25-9 men - Evan Hutchins, Swanville, 36.93, 1st
35-9 men - Pieter deHart, Thorndike, 31.47, 1st
50-4 men - Alan Gibson, Belfast, 38.76, 1st
65-9 men - Dan Horton, Belfast, 52.62, 2nd
- Bill Jones, Hope, 50.90, 2nd

100 butterfly
25-9 women - Lianne McCluskey, Hope, 1:03.13, 1st
30-4 men - Joseph Stilwell, Belfast, 1:08.55, 1st
75-9 men - Peter Giustra, Warren, 1:53.68, 1st

200 back
18-24 women - Eryn Thostenson, Belfast, 2:38.92, 1st

100 free
18-24 men - Mark McCluskey, Hope, 52.66, 1st
18-24 women - Rebecca Harrison, Unity, 1:27.99, 1st
25-9 men - Evan Hutchins, Swanville, 58-59, 1st
25-9 women - Lianne McCluskey, Hope, 1:00.43, 1st
60-4 men - Doug Blasius, Belfast, 1:43.54, 2nd
65-9 men - Dan Horton, Belfast, 1:31.69, 2nd
80-4 men - Bill Jones, Hope, 1:24.62, 1st
- Frank Giustra, Waldoboro, 1:47.57, 2nd

200 individual medley
25-9 women - Lianne McCluskey, Hope, 2:41.45, 1st

200 free
35-9 men - Pieter deHart, Thorndike, 1:54.77, 1st
50-4 men - Alan Gibson, Belfast, 2:35.00, 1st
60-4 men - Doug Blasius, Belfast, 3:31.05, 1st

50 butterfly
18-24 men - Mark McCluskey, Hope, 25.43, 1st
30-4 men - Joseph Stilwell, Belfast, 29.03, 1st
75-9 men - Peter Giustra, Warren, 46.75, 1st
80-4 men - Frank Giustra, Waldoboro, 1:14.82, 1st

100 back
65-9 men - Robert Winslow, Belfast, 1:35.44, 2nd
75-9 men - Peter Giustra, Warren, 1:57.32, 1st

500 free
18-24 men - Mark McCluskey, Hope, 5:54.88, 1st
18-24 women - Eryn Thostenson, Belfast, 6:52.77, 1st
25-9 men - Evan Hutchins, Swanville, 6:13.44, 1st
60-4 men - Peter Millard, Belfast, 7:38.17, 1st
- Doug Blasius, Belfast, 9:36.27, 2nd

200 breast
25-9 women - Lianne McCluskey, Hope, 2:47.27, 1st
80-4 men - Bill Jones, Hope, 4:14.52, 1st

100 individual medley
18-24 men - Mark McCluskey, Hope, 1:01.63, 1st
18-24 women - Eryn Thostenson, Belfast, 1:19.62, 1st
25-9 men - Evan Hutchins, Swanville, 1:11.98, 1st
30-4 men - Joseph Stilwell, Belfast, 1_09.28, 1st
35-9 men - Pieter deHart, Thorndike, 59.80, 1st
50-4 men - Alan Gibson, Belfast, 1:18.76, 1st

200 medley relay
25+ men - Clark, Scholz, Lecrone, Gillis, 1:53.12, 1st
- DeHart, Trainor, Stilwell, Hutchens, 2:02.08, 2nd
18+ women - Thostenson, McCluskey, Uecker, Redman, 2:15.30, 1st

200 free relay
18+ men - Lecrone, McCluskey, Hutchins, Scholz, 1:44.95, 1st
18+ mixed - Stilwell, Gibson, Thostenson, McCluskey, 1:59.34, 1st
35+ men - Gillis, Ford, Thai, DeHart, 1:48.39, 1st
55+ men - Blasius, Horton, Rier, Millard, 2:45.46, 1st

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