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Swim club fares well at local, national meetsBy Times staff writer © St. Petersburg Times, published November 5, 2000 ST. PETERSBURG -- The St. Petersburg Masters swim club won overall second place at a meet Oct. 13-15 in Orlando. The women's team took first place, and the men's team finished third. Thirty-four teams competed. After its trip this summer to the world championships in Germany, St. Pete Masters won three individual titles and placed 16th of 130 teams in the U.S. National Masters Championships in Baltimore. In the national meet, Allison Beebe, a teacher at Admiral Farragut Academy, won the 50-meter backstroke, and Bill Specht, 1999's national masters male swimmer of the year, won the 200-meter butterfly and the 200-meter backstroke. Other women scoring for St. Pete included Lisa Junkermann (second in the 50 and 100 fly events, fifth in the 50 freestyle, third in the 100 freestyle, and fourth in the 200 individual medley); and Lindsay Powell (third in the 800 free, fifth in the 100 back and sixth in the 400, 200 and 100 free events). Beebe also finished second in the 200 fly and 200 back, third in the 100 back and sixth in the 50 free. Among the men, Bob Buresh was second in the 50 back, third in the 100 back and eighth in the 200 individual medley. Specht also took second in the 100 back and 100 and 50 fly events. Buresh, Beebe, Junkermann and Specht took fourth in the 200 medley relay.
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