Welcome to Butternuts!
The Butternuts, the 500+ butterfly club, is now nationwide! Team NASTI would like to extend membership to anyone “brave” enough (i.e., nutty enough) to try this! Please fill out this form and send it to the address indicated. ButterNut Club Members will receive a color certificate and custom full-color T-shirt to wear with pride!
Butternut Rules:
1. Continuous butterfly swim - 500 yard minimum
2. Swim duration must be USA/USMS legal (all regulation butterfly; no one-armed strokes or turns, fins, etc.)
3. A witness who’ll vouch for your success!
We have members ranging from
nine to eighty years old, and we stretch from
Maine to Texas, Montana, California and even
Hawaii! And the Butternuts haven’t stopped at just 500
yards! Doug Strong, 80, from Bloomington, Ind.,
swam a 2,500! We wanted to share one of the comments
we’ve received:
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"On February 28, I swam a 1100 yard continuous butterfly.
My witness is Jason Amos, our assistant aquatics
director, here at the Penobscott Bay “YMCA” in
Rockport. Since we don’t have any 50-meter pools in
Maine, it had to be in yards. I’d set out to swim a 600
fly, but gee, it felt so good, I decided to see how far I
could go before either getting bored or was too tired to
continue. The former was the result. After about 40
minutes, I just flat got too bored to go for more. Since
fly is my “resting and cool down” stroke, it wasn’t difficult,
when taken slow and relaxed. I’ve come to
believe that most people shudder away from butterfly
because they try to “kill” the stroke and end up doing
themselves in. To me, the key to butterfly, is to just
stay relaxed and keep up a steady rythmn. ... I’ll gladly
pay for the T-shirt and shipping. At 72, most other
swimmers think that I’m nuts to swim butterfly distances,
anyway. I might as well make it official!" – Dolly Slater, Maine Masters, Owls Head, Maine |
Girl, 14, Emerges from Lake Erie as a Champion
Here are the inductees so far...
| Laurie Alioto, 49 - WMAC 2/10/08 - 500 yds., pool, 7:03.8 |
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| Christie Anderson, 29 - NASTI 4/4/06 - 500 yds., pool, 7:40.72 |
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| Aaron Applebaum, 13 - COPS 2/22/07 - 500 yds., pool |
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| Rodney Bailey, 55 - UA 500 yds., pool, 10:27 |
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| Dan Behr, BOZE 3/9/2006 - 500 M, pool |
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| Marcia Benjamin, 50 - Walnut Creek Masters 5/13/07 - 500 yds., pool, 8:48 |
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| Miriam Benjamin, 10 - Walnut Creek Aquabears 4/25/07 - 500 yds., pool |
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| Kat Boyer, 53 - MOST 7/15/08 - 500 M, pool, 10:12.28 |
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| Ann Brewer, South Texas 500 M, pool |
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| Jim Budde, AMST 2/06 - 1000 yds., ocean |
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| Linda Callaway, MOST 5/17/2008 - 500 M, pool, 13:08 According to tradition, Linda's workout group celebrated her birthday poolside when she turned 55 and they did a special challenge set - 55 laps all the same stroke. She swam butterfly while everyone else swam other strokes. When she finished, they sang "Happy Birthday" and gave her a goofy B'day cake (Clif Bar with a lighted candle). Also, in January 2007, she did the One Hour Postal Swim all butterfly, 2,180 SCY! At the end, some age group kids (12-15 years old) in the pool that day clapped and cheered her when she finished, their coach citing her as a real role model for them. Now we know why she is known among her teammates as the "Butterfly Queen". |
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| Anna Castle, 3/7/2007 - 500 yds., pool |
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| Doug Church, 62 - NASTI Summer '05 - 500 yds., pool |
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| Bill Crowley, 67 - Plano Wetcats 5/4/06 - 500 yds., pool, 10:11 |
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| Eric Dybahl, 46 - PNA 1/24/07 - 3740 yds., pool, 1:00:00.00 |
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| Julie Eakle, 48 MOST 6/27/08 - 500 M, pool, 11:59 |
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| Tittia Elias, South Texas 500 yds., pool, 8:50 |
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| Todd Erickson, 53 - MOST 7/15/08 - 500 M., pool, 9:51.3 |
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| James Evans, 59 - Virginia Masters 2/10/07 - 500 yds., pool, 10:39.50 |
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| Michael Fox, 57 - Plano Wetcats 2/10/07 - 500 yds., pool, 7:40.09 |
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| Jim Gibbs, 65 - Plano Wetcats 2/10/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 11:39 |
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| Peter Giustra, 67 - Maine Masters 500 yds., pool |
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| Henry Hallf, Masters of South Texas 600 M, pool (SCM), 12:58 |
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| Jenny Hodges, 34 - PMST 6/18/08 - 500 yds, pool, 9:55 |
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| Vic Holove, NASTI Summer '05 - 500 M, pool |
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| Doug Jelen, 34, PNA 500 yds, pool, 6:48 |
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| Craig Kercher, 46 - MOST 7/2/08 - 500 M, pool |
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| Raena Latina-Lawson, 34 - NASTI Summer '05 - 500 M, pool |
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| Matt Laughlin, 19 - Baldwin Wallace 1/5/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 6:03 |
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| Alex Leer, 11 - NSC 500 yds., pool |
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| Ethan Leer, 9 - NSC 500 yds., pool |
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| Ellen Lipolis, Vacaville 500 M, pool, 9:24 |
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| Lindsay Longest, NASTI 4/4/2006 - 500 yds., pool, 9:24 |
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| Jerry Lourigan, Madison Area Mstrs. 2/11/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 7:35.22 |
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| Chris Massonneau, 49 - Winchester Masters 8/6/2007, pool (LCM), 10:53 |
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| Chris Mayhew, 54 - Masters of South Texas 6/27/2008, pool (LCM), 10:51.61 |
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| Kathy Morrell, VSCM |
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| Scott Mortenson, South Texas 600 M, pool, 14:02 |
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| Stephanie Patterson, 27 - Omaha Masters 3/27/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 7:51.92 |
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| Tim Patterson, 49 - Omaha Masters 3/27/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 7:47.79 |
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| Judy Paukert, 60 - MOST 7/15/08 - 600 yds., pool, 14:45 |
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| Allen Raver, 38 - NASTI 4/8/2006 - 500 yds., pool, 9:13 |
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| Eric Rawlings, 25 - Charlottesville 3/14/2007 - 600 yds., pool, 6:03 |
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| Ryan Reynolds, 18 - Baldwin Wallace 1/5/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 6:06 |
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| Elizabeth Robinson, 54 - Plano Wetcats 1/31/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 10:17 |
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| Jeanine Sanford, 48 - Plano Wetcats 1/18/2007 - 500 yds., pool, 11:05 |
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| Porter Schiavone, Winchester Masters 3/1/2007 - 500 M, pool, 10:12.88 |
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| Dolly Slater, PBM 1100 yds., pool |
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| Mary Span, 16 - Millbrook High School 8/8/2007 - 500 M, pool |
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| Doug Strong, 80 - DOC 1/14/2006 - 2500 yds., pool |
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| Sonja Stroot, Tri City Sturgeons 2/11/2007 - 600 M, pool, 13:57 3/4/2007 - 1000 M, pool, 23:33 |
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| Theresa Thompson, NASTI Summer '05 - 500 M, pool |
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| Robin Walker, NASTI 12/8/07, 500 yds, pool |
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| Dan Welklin, NASTI Summer '05 - 1000 M, pool and 7/6/2008, 4000 M, pool It was a beautiful Sunday morning at the Forest Park Aquatic Center and one of the Butternut Founders, Dan Welklin decided to go for a swim. 4000 Meters of Butterfly later, Dan got out of the pool to the applause of his Nasti teammates with a new Butternut record distance!! Said Dan: “What’s for breakfast?!” |
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| Gayle Wichman 3/5/2006 - 500 yds., pool |