USMS Athletes Inducted into the Masters International Swimming Hall of Fame (MISHOF)

Recipient:	Clay Britt
Year:	2021
LMSC:	Potomac Valley

Clay Britt has been swimming competitively for 54 straight years. He has 23 FINA Masters World Records to his name and has competed in seven age groups. He has been in the Top Ten every year for a total of 30 times, between the years 1988 through 2018.

After a successful swimming career at the University of Texas,  Britt joined a Masters team in Dallas and travelled to Australia in 1988 to compete at the World Masters Championships.  He broke his first world record in 1989 in the 50m backstroke. 

Shortly after Australia, he moved to the Washington DC area and immediately joined a local Masters team. There he met a core group of friends that he still trains and travels with to this day.  He expanded his passion to coaching and found himself heading up a local team called the Montgomery Ancient Mariners. He has now been involved with the team for nearly 30 years. 

The last five years have been more about exercise and stress reduction than training to break records, although he does try to get one meet in a year.