I was just looking over the results and the Hawaii slots and noticed that Teri Cady of Boulder, CO won the W25-29, and received the Kona slot. That name seemed familiar, so I did a quick search and found that she's listed as a pro in the results of several other races. Here's last year's Mrs. T's:

"Women Professionals: Barb Lindquist, 1:58:40; Joanna Zeiger, 1:59:25; Evelyn Williamson, 2:01:06; Karen Smyers, 2:01:26; Becky Gibbs, 2:01:40; Nicole DeBoom, 2:04:28, Lauren Jensen, 2:04:56; Samantha McGlone, 2:05:08; Jenny Marine, 2:07:17; Teri Cady, 2:09:45 "

I did notice from this year's Wildflower results, that she raced as an age grouper, and won her division.

I looked a bit more and noticed that Nicholas Cady also raced Utah as an Age Grouper, but appears as a pro in other races, including, for example, last year's IM Utah (he was 7th overall), 2001 Escape from Alcatraz. He did not get a slot to Kona for his efforts in this year's half, however.

Seems patently unfair for the pros to take the AG slots. I think the WTC and IMNA should do the right thing and give the slot the age grouper who really earned it. If, on the other hand, these folks are in actual fact, no longer pros, I have no problem with them racing as age groupers.