From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Tue Apr 5 03:15:34 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Tue Apr 5 12:57:06 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, April 4th Message-ID: RESULTS The Fresno Dolphins meet has been posted. Congratulations on having a very successful first meet. Over 90 swimmers competed. Thanks to Skye Flacco and the swimmers of the Dolphins for putting on the meet. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/results.shtml UPCOMING PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 Short Course yards championships are being hosted by TriValley Masters and Walnut Creek Masters at the pool in Pleasanton. Now is the time to register and make your hotel reservations. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html USMS SCY CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 US Masters Swimming Short Course yards Championships will be at Ft Lauderdale, Florida. The postal entry deadline is April 7th (This Thursday). The on-line meet entry deadline is April 14th. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats05/ OPEN WATER SWIM CLINIC The San Mateo Marlins Open water clinic is April 16th and 23rd. ==== NATIONAL AND PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS RECORDS The current USMS National Short Course Records and Pacific Masters Short Course Yards records have been posted on the web site: http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/records --- STARTS AND TURNS CLINIC So the Starts and Turns Clinic is scheduled for s Saturday April 23 from 11 am to 12:30 pm. USMS Coach of the Year Scott Williams of the Olympic Club will host a clinic to prepare competitors for the upcoming short course Pacific Championships in April. The focus will be on starts and turns in the Olympic Club's new indoor facility. Space is limited to 50 participants. Clinic Date: Saturday, April 23 Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Location: The Olympic Club, 665 Sutter Street, San Francisco Cost: $25 Make checks payable to Pacific Masters, and send check with; - a signed Pacific Masters meet registration and - a copy of current USMS registration to: Leianne Crittenden 1 Indian Gulch Rd. Piedmont, CA 94611 ---- For more information, please contact Leianne at (650)506-3933 or by email at LeianneC@aol.com Thanks to Scott Williams and the Olympic Club for putting this on. ==== CHANGE TO PAC MASTERS RULES The Pacific Masters Swimming Committee approved the addition of the following policy to the Meet Operations Handbook: All entries must include an entry time. No Time (NT) entries will be assigned an estimated time. If a swimmer enters an event with a time significantly slower than the swimmer's historical times without prior consultation with and getting the approval of the meet director, the meet director may change the entered time to a realistic time. ==== TEMESCAL AQUATIC MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Temescal Aquatic Masters are currently in the market for a Mon-Wed-Fri 6-7am coach. All workouts are held at the newly renovated Temescal Pool in Oakland on 45th Street. The pool is 33 & 1/3 yards long, sharing it's uniqueness with it's diverse and energetic team members. In turn, we are looking for a coach willing to share his/her uncommon talents in ability to communicate stroke technique and provide challenging workouts. Please contact head coach Karin Hurley if you are interested or would like more information. karin.hurley@gmail.com (510)333-1415 (cell, anytime) (510)595-1233 (home, between 9A-6P only, please) ==== BURLINGAME MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Burlingame Aquatic Club (http://www.burlingameaquatics.com), located in Burlingame, California is looking for a talented individual to take one of the most successful regional masters programs, and make it even more exceptional. We are proud of all of our approximately 130 members, which include former Olympians as well as people who just want to stay in shape and become better swimmers. Interested applicants should contact Chris Culp, Head Coach, at B.A.C. at chris@burlingameaquatics.com or 650-558-1298 for more information. ==== MEALS ON WHEELS - ANN HIRSCH SWIM Anne is swimming 3 miles to raise money for meals on wheels. For those who would like to sponsor Ann to help support senior contact her at mailto:annhirsch@webtv.net Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/attachments/20050404/bf635886/attachment.html From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon Apr 11 01:51:40 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon Apr 11 02:01:27 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, April 10th Message-ID: UPCOMING PACIFIC MASTERS MEETING The April monthly meeting of the Pacific Masters Swimming Committee will be this Wednesday, April 13th at Heather Farms meeting room in Walnut Creek. ==== PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 Short Course yards championships are being hosted by TriValley Masters and Walnut Creek Masters at the pool in Pleasanton. Now is the time to register and make your hotel reservations. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html The postmark deadline is this Saturday, April 16th. USMS SCY CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 US Masters Swimming Short Course yards Championships will be at Ft Lauderdale, Florida. The on-line meet entry deadline is April 14th. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats05/ OPEN WATER SWIM CLINIC The San Mateo Marlins Open water clinic is April 16th and 23rd. Information is at http://www.sanmateomarlins.org/openwater.html DAM SPRING STROKE CLINICS - FITNESS SWIMMERS Davis Aquatic Masters has 20 openings for each of the 4 spring stroke clinics in Davis. Dates and strokes are: Sat. May 14 Free, Sun. May 15 Back, Sun. June 5 Fly, Sat. June 11 Breast. Clinics begin at 1pm and last approx. 90min. Each clinic covers drills and turns for that stroke. DAM coaches will give individual attention and demonstrate drills. Cost is $10 per clinic. Clinics are geared more towards fitness swimmers. Civic pool in Davis is at the corner of B St. and 5th. Send checks made out to DAM to Rick Powers, 911 Pennsylvania Place #14, Davis,CA 95616. Email Coach Rick at rpswimmer@hotmail.com for more info and to reserve a spot. ==== STARTS AND TURNS CLINIC So the Starts and Turns Clinic is scheduled for Saturday April 23 from 11 am to 12:30 pm. USMS Coach of the Year Scott Williams of the Olympic Club will host a clinic to prepare competitors for the upcoming short course Pacific Championships in April. The focus will be on starts and turns in the Olympic Club's new indoor facility. Space is limited to 50 participants. Clinic Date: Saturday, April 23 Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Location: The Olympic Club, 665 Sutter Street, San Francisco Cost: $25 Make checks payable to Pacific Masters, and send check with; - a signed Pacific Masters meet registration and - a copy of current USMS registration to: Leianne Crittenden 1 Indian Gulch Rd. Piedmont, CA 94611 ---- For more information, please contact Leianne at (650)506-3933 or by email at LeianneC@aol.com Thanks to Scott Williams and the Olympic Club for putting this on. ==== NATIONAL AND PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS RECORDS The current USMS National Short Course Records and Pacific Masters Short Course Yards records have been posted on the web site: http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/records ===== TEMESCAL AQUATIC MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Temescal Aquatic Masters are currently in the market for a Mon-Wed-Fri 6-7am coach. All workouts are held at the newly renovated Temescal Pool in Oakland on 45th Street. The pool is 33 & 1/3 yards long, sharing it's uniqueness with it's diverse and energetic team members. In turn, we are looking for a coach willing to share his/her uncommon talents in ability to communicate stroke technique and provide challenging workouts. Please contact head coach Karin Hurley if you are interested or would like more information. karin.hurley@gmail.com (510)333-1415 (cell, anytime) (510)595-1233 (home, between 9A-6P only, please) ==== BURLINGAME MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Burlingame Aquatic Club (http://www.burlingameaquatics.com), located in Burlingame, California is looking for a talented individual to take one of the most successful regional masters programs, and make it even more exceptional. We are proud of all of our approximately 130 members, which include former Olympians as well as people who just want to stay in shape and become better swimmers. Interested applicants should contact Chris Culp, Head Coach, at B.A.C. at chris@burlingameaquatics.com or 650-558-1298 for more information. ====== WATER POLO COACH NEEDED Redwood High School in Larkspur (Marin) is looking for a water polo coach for the girls water polo team. For information contact Wendy Doherty dosho94947@yahoo.com ==== DATE CORRECTION The Donner Lake swim will be on Saturday August 6th, 2006 not on Sunday. Please mark your calendars. ====== SOUTHERN PACIFIC SHORT COURSE YARDS MEET SCY Regional Meet at Saddleback, 4/22-24 SPMA Regionals, Saddleback, April 22-24th, Postmark deadline 4/11/05 extended CORRECT ADDRESS for entries below! SPMA short course yards regionals will be held April 22-24th at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. All events will be offered. Due to confusion with entry sheets the discounted pre-entry postmark deadline has been extended to April 11th ($35). Add $10 late fee for all entries postmarked after April 11th and received before Friday, April 15th. THERE ARE NO ON-LINE ENTRIES FOR THIS MEET. No individual deck entries are allowed! Please make the following correction to the address for mailing entries for the SCY Regional Meet at Saddleback. Entries should go to: 25108 Marguerite Parkway (the street number was transposed) http://www.spma.net/meetforms/2005SPMARegionaSCYChampionship.htm http://www.spma.net/meetforms/2005SPMARegionaSCYChampionship.pdf The consolidated entry card can be downloaded from: http://www.spma.net/Cardboth.PDF ==== Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/attachments/20050410/31a1b83a/attachment.html From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon Apr 18 00:12:47 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon Apr 18 00:14:36 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, April 17th Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 Short Course yards championships are being hosted by TriValley Masters and Walnut Creek Masters at the pool in Pleasanton. Now is the time to register and make your hotel reservations. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html The postmark deadline is this Saturday, April 16th. === OPEN WATER SWIM CLINIC - Cancelled The San Mateo Marlins Open water clinic is April 16th and 23rd was cancelled. Information is at http://www.sanmateomarlins.org/openwater.html === DAM SPRING STROKE CLINICS - FITNESS SWIMMERS Davis Aquatic Masters has 20 openings for each of the 4 spring stroke clinics in Davis. Dates and strokes are: Sat. May 14 Free, Sun. May 15 Back, Sun. June 5 Fly, Sat. June 11 Breast. Clinics begin at 1pm and last approx. 90min. Each clinic covers drills and turns for that stroke. DAM coaches will give individual attention and demonstrate drills. Cost is $10 per clinic. Clinics are geared more towards fitness swimmers. Civic pool in Davis is at the corner of B St. and 5th. Send checks made out to DAM to Rick Powers, 911 Pennsylvania Place #14, Davis,CA 95616. Email Coach Rick at rpswimmer@hotmail.com for more info and to reserve a spot. ==== STARTS AND TURNS CLINIC So the Starts and Turns Clinic is scheduled for Saturday April 23 from 11 am to 12:30 pm. USMS Coach of the Year Scott Williams of the Olympic Club will host a clinic to prepare competitors for the upcoming short course Pacific Championships in April. The focus will be on starts and turns in the Olympic Club's new indoor facility. Space is limited to 50 participants. Clinic Date: Saturday, April 23 Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Location: The Olympic Club, 665 Sutter Street, San Francisco Cost: $25 Make checks payable to Pacific Masters, and send check with; - a signed Pacific Masters meet registration and - a copy of current USMS registration to: Leianne Crittenden 1 Indian Gulch Rd. Piedmont, CA 94611 ---- For more information, please contact Leianne at (650)506-3933 or by email at LeianneC@aol.com Thanks to Scott Williams and the Olympic Club for putting this on. ==== NATIONAL AND PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS RECORDS The current USMS National Short Course Records and Pacific Masters Short Course Yards records have been posted on the web site: http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/records ===== TEMESCAL AQUATIC MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Temescal Aquatic Masters are currently in the market for a Mon-Wed-Fri 6-7am coach. All workouts are held at the newly renovated Temescal Pool in Oakland on 45th Street. The pool is 33 & 1/3 yards long, sharing it's uniqueness with it's diverse and energetic team members. In turn, we are looking for a coach willing to share his/her uncommon talents in ability to communicate stroke technique and provide challenging workouts. Please contact head coach Karin Hurley if you are interested or would like more information. karin.hurley@gmail.com (510)333-1415 (cell, anytime) (510)595-1233 (home, between 9A-6P only, please) ==== BURLINGAME MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Burlingame Aquatic Club (http://www.burlingameaquatics.com), located in Burlingame, California is looking for a talented individual to take one of the most successful regional masters programs, and make it even more exceptional. We are proud of all of our approximately 130 members, which include former Olympians as well as people who just want to stay in shape and become better swimmers. Interested applicants should contact Chris Culp, Head Coach, at B.A.C. at chris@burlingameaquatics.com or 650-558-1298 for more information. ====== WATER POLO COACH NEEDED Redwood High School in Larkspur (Marin) is looking for a water polo coach for the girls water polo team. For information contact Wendy Doherty dosho94947@yahoo.com ==== DATE CORRECTION The Donner Lake swim will be on Saturday August 6th, 2006 not on Sunday. Please mark your calendars. ====== SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA Lynne Cox's 'Swimming to Antarctica' is now available in paperback. It is the story of her major swims and what went right and what went wrong with them. It is available in your local bookstores -If you are going to purchase it through Amazon, please go to USMS then hit the Amazon link. http://www.usms.org/ ===== Pacific Masters by the numbers 4/15/05 3/15/05 1 DAM 499 452 2 WCM 377 320 3 TCAM 313 273 4 USF 269 207 5 MELO 235 198 6 MAM 209 200 7 SCAM 204 193 8 MVM 194 157 9 STAN 184 156 10 CRUZ 172 154 11 TSUN 145 138 12 BMW 144 137 13 RINC 140 135 14 TVM 137 121 15 SMMM 123 110 Total members 6208 5287 Number of Clubs 99 93 Update List 13888 13632 ------ >To All > >I have an update concerning the Vacaville High School Alumni meet. >We have decided to cap the total number of swimmers to 100. This we >believe will make for a much better day for all concerned. We would >like everyone to please get their entries sent in to me as soon as >possible to seed the races accurately. > >Again I would like to say this meet is intended as a fund raiser for >the high school, our first year we plan to start small and hope to >grow in the coming years. > >A little about our facility, it is a 6 lane 25 yard 4.5 foot deep >pool. The pool surface has been redone and is exceptionally well >cared for. There is not a lot of room on deck for easy-up set up but >there is a large parking lot adjacent to the pool. We also hope to >have some local vendors for athletes to take advantage of. There >will be a hospitality area for athletes participating with some >complimentary item such as water, gator aid, sandwiches, coffee etc. >We will also have a snack bar with other item at a nominal charge. >Would it be possible to let your swimmers know? I again have >attached a flier with all the information. > >Lastly we plan on having heats in all events for both women and men >and will award 8 deep for each event. > >Thank you for your time, >Marvin Shockey Vacaville High School Varsity Swimming mar.julie.shockey@sbcglobal.net ====== SITUATIONS - ALL USA - SWIMMING During the preliminary heats of the 200 yard butterfly, three swimmers tied for eight place. We would have to have a swim-off to see who would qualify for eighth place for finals later that evening. All three coaches met with the Deck Referee to determine when would be the appropriate time to hold this swim-off. It was determined that the swim-off would be held before the relays and after the last individual heat for the morning. This particular meet has both a heat of an A (championship) finals and a B (consolation) finals. Situation 1: All swimmers are disqualified in the swim-off. Situation 2: Two swimmers are disqualified in the swim-off, while one swimmer is faster than the fastest seed for finals. Situation 3: Only one swimmer is disqualified, but the other two swimmers tie again. Situation 4: If the Timing Judge looked at the times in thousandths of a second, one of the swimmers has a faster time. In order to eliminate the swimmers from swimming the 200 butterfly an extra time, the Deck Referee decides to use this time in order to not have a swim-off. Was this the correct procedure for the Deck Referee to follow? Have a good week michael ================== #1 Possible Solution: There will have to be another swim-off to determine the eighth place swimmer. The time of the swim-off will be determined by the coaches and Deck Referee. The rule book states in 102.5.2, "If disqualifications leave a vacancy for the full complement of finalists, swim-offs shall be continued among the disqualified swimmers until a full complement of finalists is assured." #2 Possible Solution: The one swimmer that swam faster than the fastest seeded swimmer for finals will swim as the eighth seeded swimmer for finals. The two swimmers who were disqualified in the swim-off will swim in the consolation heat and their seeding will be determined by a draw. 102.5.2 states, in part, " A swim-off is considered to be part of the total preliminary process of qualifying for the finals." "... The official time for the swimmers involved shall be the time set in the original preliminary heat." 102.5.3 states, " In finals, the times to be considered are those times made in preliminary heats. If any qualifying swimmers have the same time their respective lanes shall be determined by draw." #3 Possible Solution: There will be another swim-off for the tied swimmers to determine the eight place swimmer. The one disqualified swimmer will be the tenth seeded swimmer in this event. 102.5.2 states, "...In the case of a disqualification in a swim-off the swimmer so disqualified is relegated to the lowest qualifying position for which he/she is competing. Disqualification in a swim-off for a qualifying position in the A (championship) finals shall not eliminate a swimmer from eligibility to compete in the accompanying B (consolation) finals. If disqualifications leave a vacancy for the full complement of finalists, swim-offs shall be continued among the disqualified swimmers until a full complement of finalists is assured." #4 Possible Solution: No, this isn't the correct procedure. 102.16.4B states, "Timing Resolution - All timing systems, including manual watches, shall have a resolution of one one-hundredth of a second (0.01 second). Times from all systems shall be recorded to hundredths of a second. The digits representing thousandths shall be dropped with no rounding." The swim-off process will have to be continued until a full complement of finalists are assured. -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/attachments/20050417/69aa3ba4/attachment.html From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon Apr 25 02:19:38 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon Apr 25 02:22:00 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, April 24th Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 Short Course yards championships are being hosted by TriValley Masters and Walnut Creek Masters at the pool in Pleasanton. If you are not competing go out to cheer your team mates on or help with the timing http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html At the meet the swimmers of the years will be announced and the service awards will be presented. ====== UPCOMING MEET SPRING LAKE - FIRST OPEN WATER MEET OF THE SEASON The first meet of the open water season will be at Spring Lake on May 21 . It is a nice 1 Mile swim around Spring Lake - just east of Santa Rosa, California. More information will be in next weeks update. Information about the meet is in the May June Newsletter http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/ ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ===== MAY JUNE NEWSLETTER The Pacific Masters May June Newsletter is now on line at http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/ The news letter includes information about the upcoming meets. It is the beginning of the Open Water Season and the Long Course season. Leianne Crittenden has written an article about Masters training at the Olympic High Altitude Training Center. ====== STARTS AND TURNS CLINIC -THANK YOU The Start and Turns Clinic held at the Olympic Club was a success. Scott Williams and Laureen Welting worked hard to put on a great clinic for the attendees. The swimmers worked on their starts and turns. They were taped and strengths and weaknesses were reviewed with the swimmer. Thanks to Scott Williams, Laureen Welting and the Olympic Club for putting their work in putting on the clinic. ==== TRUE ROMANCE THRU SWIMMING There is a thread on the USMS forums page that discusses where swimmers had found romance through swimming. Find out how Karen "Chipmunk" Duggan met her future husband at the Walnut Creek Pool as well as other true life romances http://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4421 ===== SCAM SWIMMING CLINIC WITH MIKE BOTTOM Swim clinic with world-class coach Mike Bottom and his Olympic swimmers! WHAT: 1.5 hour clinic including starts and turns, video, demonstration by Olympians, as well as stroke work for freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke. WHEN: Sunday, May 8, 2005. 8 a.m. WHERE: Spieker Pool, UC Berkeley (part of the Recreational Sports Facility on Bancroft Way) HOW MUCH: Bring a check for $30 to the clinic made out to Bottomline Aquatics (this is a steep discount over the usual fee!) LEARN MORE: www.bottomlineaquatics.com RSVP: Please email Molly Lohman (lohman@berkeley.edu) by May 1. -- Mike Bottoms is one of the best coaches in the world having coached the the last three mens 50 Olympic Champions. ===== DAM SPRING STROKE CLINICS - FITNESS SWIMMERS Davis Aquatic Masters has 20 openings for each of the 4 spring stroke clinics in Davis. Dates and strokes are: Sat. May 14 Free, Sun. May 15 Back, Sun. June 5 Fly, Sat. June 11 Breast. Clinics begin at 1pm and last approx. 90min. Each clinic covers drills and turns for that stroke. DAM coaches will give individual attention and demonstrate drills. Cost is $10 per clinic. Clinics are geared more towards fitness swimmers. Civic pool in Davis is at the corner of B St. and 5th. Send checks made out to DAM to Rick Powers 911 Pennsylvania Place #14 Davis,CA 95616. Email Coach Rick at rpswimmer@hotmail.com for more info and to reserve a spot. ===== TEMESCAL AQUATIC MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Temescal Aquatic Masters are currently in the market for a Mon-Wed-Fri 6-7am coach. All workouts are held at the newly renovated Temescal Pool in Oakland on 45th Street. The pool is 33 & 1/3 yards long, sharing it's uniqueness with it's diverse and energetic team members. In turn, we are looking for a coach willing to share his/her uncommon talents in ability to communicate stroke technique and provide challenging workouts. Please contact head coach Karin Hurley if you are interested or would like more information. karin.hurley@gmail.com (510)333-1415 (cell, anytime) (510)595-1233 (home, between 9A-6P only, please) ==== BURLINGAME MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Burlingame Aquatic Club (http://www.burlingameaquatics.com), located in Burlingame, California is looking for a talented individual to take one of the most successful regional masters programs, and make it even more exceptional. We are proud of all of our approximately 130 members, which include former Olympians as well as people who just want to stay in shape and become better swimmers. Interested applicants should contact Chris Culp, Head Coach, at B.A.C. at chris@burlingameaquatics.com or 650-558-1298 for more information. ====== WATER POLO COACH NEEDED Redwood High School in Larkspur (Marin) is looking for a water polo coach for the girls water polo team. For information contact Wendy Doherty dosho94947@yahoo.com ==== DATE CORRECTION The Donner Lake swim will be on Saturday August 6th, 2006 not on Sunday. Please mark your calendars. ====== COACH OF THE YEAR Every year Pacific Masters honors one coach who has demonstrated outstanding qualities.Pacific Masters Swimming has many good coaches who has demonstrated outstanding coaching qualities. We try to honor an exceptional coach each year with the "Coach of the Year" award. The criteria for the award will be considered first, since January 1 of the preceding year, and second, over the coach's career with his or her club. Outstanding contributions to his or her club and its individuals are measured by the following competitive and non-competitive factors: Competitive factors shall include club and individual performance at Pacific Masters and USMS Championships,in any sanctioned course, as well as relay and individual Pacific Masters, USMS and World records that reflect the coach's skill and inspiration. Non-competitive factors shall include club vigor, size and growth, club participation and volunteering, and club having hosted well run events. It shall include outstanding service to Pacific Masters, USMS and to other public or private community organizations; outstanding professional contributions,such as participation in clinics and published works. Nominations may be made by any registered Pacific Masters club officer in the form of a written statement addressing both the criteria above and the instructional and inspirational qualities of the coach. The nominating letter and a maximum of four supporting letters from registered Pacific Masters swimmers shall be submitted to the Chairman at or before May meeting of Pacific Masters (May 11th, this year). === USMS ExCom meeting minutes Minutes from the March 21, 2005 USMS Executive Committee Meeting are now available http://www.usms.org/admin/excon/minutes2005EC0321.pdf Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon May 2 01:11:19 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon May 2 01:16:25 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate]Tragedy Mars Pac Masters Championships Message-ID: TRAGEDY MARS PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS Walnut Creek swimmer Brendon Wen suffered a seizure in the pool at the 2005 Pacific Masters SCY Championships in Pleasanton. He was pulled from the water by swimmers and lifeguards, and rushed to the local hospital, where he died about 30 minutes later. It was in the warm down lane after competing in the 1000 yard Freestyle, Brendon Wen suffer a seizure. Another swimmer noticed that he was exhaling under the water and not moving much. Brendon came the surface but was non responsive. A call for help went out to the lifeguards. A swimmer, who was close to stricken Wen, held him so his shoulder and head were above water. A call was made to 911. A group of lifeguards and swimmers came to carefully put him on a back board, then pull him from the shallow water to a place on land. After he was pulled from the pool, lifeguards gave him cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The police quickly came to the pool followed by a fire engine and the EMTs. The EMTs worked on the swimmer before transporting him to the local hospital, where the doctors were not able to revive him. Our thoughts and prayers are with Brendon's family and friends. Information about a memorial or a celebration of Brendon's life will be posted on the Pacific Masters web site when it is available. -------- There were many good things that happened at the meet. It was the largest Masters meet except for Nationals. There were 13 national records broken and many teams did well. The computer program went down at the end of the day so the final reports are not available. Meet results through Saturday are posted on the Pac Masters web site. Another update will be released this week to cover the great swim meet put on by Walnut Creek Masters and TriValley Masters. ==== michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Thu May 5 00:42:37 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Thu May 5 00:51:22 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, Cinco d' mayo Message-ID: RESULTS PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS Final Results have now been posted on the web site. Thanks to John King, Bob Snodgrass, the Walnut Creek Masters and the TriValley Masters for putting on a great meet. Over 800 swimmers entered the championships. It is the largest local or zone Masters meet in the United States. The meet went very quickly, the pool facilities were very fast. Walnut Creek Masters won the Over All Team title, by beating USF by about 600 points. This was USF's first time USF has not taken the over all title in 13 years. Thirteen national records were broken. Walnut Creek 25+ 400 M FR 25+ 01:43.10 Allison Wagner 200 IM 25-29 02:19.72 Suzanne Heim Bowen 1000 Free 45-49 10:38.13 Karen Humphries 200 Back 50-54 02:19.72 Karen Humphries 100 Back 50-54 01:03.24 Jim Clemmons 500 Free 55-59 05:09.48 Jim Clemmons 1000 Free 55-59 10:33.13 Carol Taylor 50 Breast 75-79 00:46.51 Gail Roper 500 Free 75-79 07:43.81 Carol Taylor 200 Brt 75-79 03:45.03 Carol Taylor 100 Brt 75-79 01:43.12 Margery Meyer 100 IM 80-84 01:51.99 William Johnson 100 IM 85-89 01:34.91 Congratulations to the swimmers who broke national records and congratulations to all swimmers who competed. ====== MEMORIAL FOR BRENDON WEN A memorial service will be held Sat. May 7th at 8:45 am. The location will be at Clarke Memorial Swim Center Heather Farm Park Walnut Creek Simple existence can occur through inhaling and exhaling. Actual "living" happens by constantly breathing new life into those things we are passionate about. A key to "living happily" is not only finding balance between the things that are important and those that bring us joy, but by also knowing how to find one within the the other. That is how I would describe the life of Walnut Creek Masters member Brendon Wen. His passions were family, swimming and his career as an attorney. Brenden passed away suddenly, Sunday, at the conclusion of the Pacific Masters Championships. All who attended and knew Brendon had the pleasure in sharing in quite possibly the best swim meet of his life, smashing personal best's in his two best events-The 100 and 200 butterfly. We were all blessed by his gentle spirit, kind heart, and quiet demeanor all wrapped up in that large strong body with a smile to match. He was a true friend to WCM members and the masters swimming community as a whole. As we remember Brendon let us also remember his family and pray for their healing. In Brendon's passing, I am again reminded through your love and outreach to one another, that we are so much more than just a swim team. -Kerry O'Brien ====== PACIFIC MASTERS MEETING The March monthly meeting of the Pacific Masters Swimming Committee will be this Wednesday, May 11th at Heather Farms meeting room in Walnut Creek. ALL members are encourage to attend. It is much cheaper (and productive) to attend the meeting to address the problems and challenges of Pacific Masters Swimming than to create t-shirts and put them on cars. ====== OPEN WATER SEASON The 2005 Pacific Masters Open Water Season is about to begin. The first open water swim is the San Mater Master Marlins Parkside Aquatic Park One Mile Swim on Saturday May 14th. The Parkside Aquatic Park is in San Mateo near the Joinville pool The race begins at 9:00am Redwood Coast Masters is organizing the Spring Lake One Mile Open Water Swim. The race is in Spring Lake, in Santa Rosa and will start about 9:am. You can enter on-line at www.lifeguardforlife.org Lake Berryessa Annual one and Two Mile Swims will be on Saturday June 4, 2005. You can register at www.damfast.org ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ===== MAY JUNE NEWSLETTER The Pacific Masters May June Newsletter is now on line at http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/ The news letter includes information about the upcoming meets. It is the beginning of the Open Water Season and the Long Course season. Leianne Crittenden has written an article about Masters training at the Olympic High Altitude Training Center. ===== SCAM SWIMMING CLINIC WITH MIKE BOTTOM Swim clinic with world-class coach Mike Bottom and his Olympic swimmers! WHAT: 1.5 hour clinic including starts and turns, video, demonstration by Olympians, as well as stroke work for freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke. WHEN: Sunday, May 8, 2005. 8 a.m. WHERE: Spieker Pool, UC Berkeley (part of the Recreational Sports Facility on Bancroft Way) HOW MUCH: Bring a check for $30 to the clinic made out to Bottomline Aquatics (this is a steep discount over the usual fee!) LEARN MORE: www.bottomlineaquatics.com RSVP: Please email Molly Lohman (lohman@berkeley.edu) by May 1. -- Mike Bottoms is one of the best coaches in the world having coached the the last three mens 50 Olympic Champions. ===== DAM SPRING STROKE CLINICS - FITNESS SWIMMERS Davis Aquatic Masters has 20 openings for each of the 4 spring stroke clinics in Davis. Dates and strokes are: Sat. May 14 Free, Sun. May 15 Back, Sun. June 5 Fly, Sat. June 11 Breast. Clinics begin at 1pm and last approx. 90min. Each clinic covers drills and turns for that stroke. DAM coaches will give individual attention and demonstrate drills. Cost is $10 per clinic. Clinics are geared more towards fitness swimmers. Civic pool in Davis is at the corner of B St. and 5th. Send checks made out to DAM to Rick Powers 911 Pennsylvania Place #14 Davis,CA 95616. Email Coach Rick at rpswimmer@hotmail.com for more info and to reserve a spot. ===== TEMESCAL AQUATIC MASTERS - NEEDS COACH The Temescal Aquatic Masters are currently in the market for a Mon-Wed-Fri 6-7am coach. All workouts are held at the newly renovated Temescal Pool in Oakland on 45th Street. The pool is 33 & 1/3 yards long, sharing it's uniqueness with it's diverse and energetic team members. In turn, we are looking for a coach willing to share his/her uncommon talents in ability to communicate stroke technique and provide challenging workouts. Please contact head coach Karin Hurley if you are interested or would like more information. karin.hurley@gmail.com (510)333-1415 (cell, anytime) (510)595-1233 (home, between 9A-6P only, please) ==== WATER POLO COACH NEEDED Redwood High School in Larkspur (Marin) is looking for a water polo coach for the girls water polo team. For information contact Wendy Doherty dosho94947@yahoo.com ==== DATE CORRECTION The Donner Lake swim will be on Saturday August 6th, 2005 (this year) not on Sunday. Please mark your calendars. ====== COACH OF THE YEAR Every year Pacific Masters honors one coach who has demonstrated outstanding qualities.Pacific Masters Swimming has many good coaches who has demonstrated outstanding coaching qualities. We try to honor an exceptional coach each year with the "Coach of the Year" award. The criteria for the award will be considered first, since January 1 of the preceding year, and second, over the coach's career with his or her club. Outstanding contributions to his or her club and its individuals are measured by the following competitive and non-competitive factors: Competitive factors shall include club and individual performance at Pacific Masters and USMS Championships,in any sanctioned course, as well as relay and individual Pacific Masters, USMS and World records that reflect the coach's skill and inspiration. Non-competitive factors shall include club vigor, size and growth, club participation and volunteering, and club having hosted well run events. It shall include outstanding service to Pacific Masters, USMS and to other public or private community organizations; outstanding professional contributions,such as participation in clinics and published works. Nominations may be made by any registered Pacific Masters club officer in the form of a written statement addressing both the criteria above and the instructional and inspirational qualities of the coach. The nominating letter and a maximum of four supporting letters from registered Pacific Masters swimmers shall be submitted to the Chairman at or before May meeting of Pacific Masters (May 11th, this year). ==== MEETS FOR THE TRAVELING SWIMMER Tualatin Hills Barracudas (Portland, Oregon). is hosting a long course meet on June 4, and wanted to get the word out beyond Oregon. We welcome any USMS swimmers - and it is a good opportunity for those who are planning to swim at either Nationals or the World games. The link for the entry form is: http://www.swimoregon.org/forms/meets/05_THB_entry.pdf ARIZONA TRIATHLON SERIES Tempe Town Lake has 5 open water swim events scheduled for this season, that are held in conjunction with a small off-road triathlon series called the "Fat Tire" triathlon series? http://dcbadventures.com/new/ WORLD MASTERS GAMES The World Masters Games is coming to Edmonton, Canada July 21 - 28, 2005. This exciting event is an opportunity to compete against the world in an environment of fun, friendship and fitness. Any masters swimmer over the age of 25 is eligible to compete. This competition is sanctioned by Swim Alberta the sanctioning authority for masters competitions in the province of Alberta as the FINA affiliated member. Currently there 1050 registered swimmers in the pool event with a cap of 1500 and 274 swimmers for the open water event out of 300 places. The latest issue of In The Games, our Athletes' Newsletter is now available. You'll find it on their web site under News, and Newsletters, or you can click this direct link: http://www.2005worldmasters.com/athletesnews8. Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon May 9 01:02:57 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon May 9 01:04:08 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, May 8, 2005 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MEETING The March monthly meeting of the Pacific Masters Swimming Committee will be this Wednesday, May 11th at Heather Farms meeting room in Walnut Creek. ALL members are encourage to attend. It is much cheaper (and productive) to attend the meeting to address the problems and challenges of Pacific Masters Swimming than to create t-shirts and put them on cars. 2005 Pacific Masters Swimming Coach of the year nominations are due at this meeting (see below). ====== COACH OF THE YEAR Every year Pacific Masters honors one coach who has demonstrated outstanding qualities.Pacific Masters Swimming has many good coaches who has demonstrated outstanding coaching qualities. We try to honor an exceptional coach each year with the "Coach of the Year" award. The criteria for the award will be considered first, since January 1 of the preceding year, and second, over the coach's career with his or her club. Outstanding contributions to his or her club and its individuals are measured by the following competitive and non-competitive factors: Competitive factors shall include club and individual performance at Pacific Masters and USMS Championships,in any sanctioned course, as well as relay and individual Pacific Masters, USMS and World records that reflect the coach's skill and inspiration. Non-competitive factors shall include club vigor, size and growth, club participation and volunteering, and club having hosted well run events. It shall include outstanding service to Pacific Masters, USMS and to other public or private community organizations; outstanding professional contributions,such as participation in clinics and published works. Nominations may be made by any registered Pacific Masters club officer in the form of a written statement addressing both the criteria above and the instructional and inspirational qualities of the coach. The nominating letter and a maximum of four supporting letters from registered Pacific Masters swimmers shall be submitted to the Chairman at or before May meeting of Pacific Masters (May 11th, this year). Nominations can be send to Michael Moore 350 Wayland St San Francisco CA 94134 with the little time left a nomination can be emailed to mailto:chairman@pacificmasters.org ====== ASCA WORLD CLINIC - FT LAUDERDALE - SCHOLARSHIP United States masters Swimming in it's continuing effort to promote and support USMS Coaches will sponsor one coach from each LMSC to attend the American Swimming Coaches Association's World Clinic in Fort Lauderdale Florida September 6 to 11, 2005. Pacific Masters Coaches who are interested in the award should contact Brian Stack Pacific Masters Coaches Co - Chair at mailto:brianstack@sbcglobal.net to apply. The Pacific Masters Coach who is selected will also receive from Pacific Masters a $250.00 stipend to help with room or travel expenses. Coaches interested should include with their application email a short biography including a resume of coaching experience and a short statement of how attending the ASCA Convention will make them a better coach, both for their team and for Pacific Masters. Please respond by May 20, 2005. Interested coaches can get more info on the USMS Home page. ==== OPEN WATER SEASON The 2005 Pacific Masters Open Water Season is about to begin. The first open water swim is the San Mater Master Marlins Parkside Aquatic Park One Mile Swim on Saturday May 14th. The Parkside Aquatic Park is in San Mateo near the Joinville pool The race begins at 9:00am Redwood Coast Masters is organizing the Spring Lake One Mile Open Water Swim. The race is in Spring Lake, in Santa Rosa and will start about 9:am. You can enter on-line at www.lifeguardforlife.org Lake Berryessa Annual one and Two Mile Swims will be on Saturday June 4, 2005. You can register at www.damfast.org ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ==== USMS Election Committee Qualifies Candidates During a meeting on May 8, the Election Committee qualified the nominees for the USMS Executive Committee and BOD. Candidates for Executive Committee will be placed on the slate for election in September. Director candidates will be slated by their respective zones during convention. All positions, filled and unfilled, will be open for nominations from the floor during convention. The slate for Executive Committee: * President - Rob Copeland * Vice President of Member Services - Mark Gill * Vice President of Community Services - No Candidate * Vice President of Local Operations - Julie Heather * Vice President of National Operations - Colleen Driscoll, Michael Heather, Leo Letendre * Secretary - Meg Smath * Treasurer - Tom Boak Qualified Director Nominees are: * Breadbasket Zone - Anna Lea Roof * Colonies Zone - Betsy Durrant * Dixie Zone - No Candidate * Great Lakes Zone - Nadine Day, Mary Pohlmann * Northwest Zone - Jeanne Ensign * Oceana Zone - Michael Moore * South Central Zone - Carolyn Boak * Southwest Zone - No Candidate ==== National Office Newsletter The Spring, 2005 edition of the USMS National Office newsletter, Streamlines... From the National Office is now available http://www.usms.org/admin/nycu2005spring.pdf ===== MAY JUNE NEWSLETTER The Pacific Masters May June Newsletter is now on line at http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/ The news letter includes information about the upcoming meets. It is the beginning of the Open Water Season and the Long Course season. Leianne Crittenden has written an article about Masters training at the Olympic High Altitude Training Center. ===== DAM SPRING STROKE CLINICS - FITNESS SWIMMERS Davis Aquatic Masters has 20 openings for each of the 4 spring stroke clinics in Davis. Dates and strokes are: Sat. May 14 Free, Sun. May 15 Back, Sun. June 5 Fly, Sat. June 11 Breast. Clinics begin at 1pm and last approx. 90min. Each clinic covers drills and turns for that stroke. DAM coaches will give individual attention and demonstrate drills. Cost is $10 per clinic. Clinics are geared more towards fitness swimmers. Civic pool in Davis is at the corner of B St. and 5th. Send checks made out to DAM to Rick Powers 911 Pennsylvania Place #14 Davis,CA 95616. Email Coach Rick at rpswimmer@hotmail.com for more info and to reserve a spot. ====== ==== Stanford University Invitational Grand Prix, May 20-22, 2005 The first annual Stanford University Invitational Grand Prix is coming May 20-22, 2005 to the Avery Aquatic Center. Many of the fastest and most exciting swimmers in the country, including Tara & Dana Kirk, Randall Bal, Peter Marshall, Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin will be participating in the meet. In order to host such a world-class event we need your help to make sure all the participants have a first-class experience. We are looking for volunteers, especially Timers and Meet Marshals. Not only do you get a front row seat at the meet, you are helping ensure the success of the event. To volunteer, please visit http://pasa.stanford.edu/SUGrandPrixSign-up/Scripts/index.pl and click on any of the team sites. Volunteer work opportunities include marshaling, drug testing escorts, timers and runners. For more information about volunteering, please contact Stanford Master's Swimmer Sue Jensen at grandprixswim@sbcglobal.net. If you would like to purchase tickets for the meet you can call 1-800-STANFORD or visit the Stanford Athletics Ticket Office at Gate 2 of the Stanford Football Stadium. Tickets for Prelims are $3-Youth/Senior and $5-Adult. Tickets for Finals are $6-Youth/Senior and $8-Adult. All Sessions passes are also available for the meet. Visit <>www.stanfordinvite.org for additional meet information, ===== WORLD MASTERS GAMES The World Masters Games is coming to Edmonton, Canada July 21 - 28, 2005. This exciting event is an opportunity to compete against the world in an environment of fun, friendship and fitness. Any masters swimmer over the age of 25 is eligible to compete. This competition is sanctioned by Swim Alberta the sanctioning authority for masters competitions in the province of Alberta as the FINA affiliated member. Currently there 1050 registered swimmers in the pool event with a cap of 1500 and 274 swimmers for the open water event out of 300 places. The latest issue of In The Games, our Athletes' Newsletter is now available. You'll find it on their web site under News, and Newsletters, or you can click this direct link: http://www.2005worldmasters.com/athletesnews8. ===== RESULTS PACIFIC MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS A couple of typo were made in the records that were broken Walnut Creek 25+ 400 Mens FR 25+ 3:13.66 Allison Wagner 200 IM 25-29 2:04.99 ====== Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon May 16 10:04:18 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon May 16 10:05:12 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, May 15, 2005 Message-ID: HOUSING FOR LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS, JULY 8-10, 2005 A limited number of reasonably priced on-campus apartments and dormitory rooms are available for those of you coming to Santa Cruz for the Long Course Championships. To give us an idea of how many swimmers are interested in staying in the available rooms, please read the following information and respond, via email, to Joel Wilson, meet Director, at mailto:openwatr@got.net. Please respond by May 21 so that we can reserve a block of rooms. Expressing your interest in staying on campus does not reserve you a room nor does it commit you to reserving a room. Your response is to help us determine how many rooms to ask to be set aside for swimmers coming to the meet. We will announce when it is time to make reservations on the Pacific Masters email list. DORM ROOMS: sleep 2-4, depending on the room; no linen so bring your own or sleeping bag; 3 meals a day; $55/night. APARTMENTS: 3 single beds per apartment; kitchen, linen supplied; $90/night. Also, apartments with 2 single beds, kitchen, linen supplied; $75/night. ----- Pacific Masters Office Closed May 18-22 The Pacific Masters Office will be closed May 18th through the 22 while Nancy Ridout, PacificMaster's registrar attends the United States Masters Swimming 2006 Short Course Yards Championships. Please contact Nancy before Wednesday or next week. ====== ASCA WORLD CLINIC - FT LAUDERDALE - SCHOLARSHIP United States masters Swimming in it's continuing effort to promote and support USMS Coaches will sponsor one coach from each LMSC to attend the American Swimming Coaches Association's World Clinic in Fort Lauderdale Florida September 6 to 11, 2005. Pacific Masters Coaches who are interested in the award should contact Brian Stack Pacific Masters Coaches Co - Chair at mailto:brianstack@sbcglobal.net to apply. The Pacific Masters Coach who is selected will also receive from Pacific Masters a $250.00 stipend to help with room or travel expenses. Coaches interested should include with their application email a short biography including a resume of coaching experience and a short statement of how attending the ASCA Convention will make them a better coach, both for their team and for Pacific Masters. Please respond by May 20, 2005. Interested coaches can get more info on the USMS Home page. ==== OPEN WATER SEASON The 2005 Pacific Masters Open Water Season has just begun.Redwood Coast Masters is organizing the Spring Lake One Mile Open Water Swim. The race is in Spring Lake, in Santa Rosa and will start about 9:am. You can enter on-line at www.lifeguardforlife.org Lake Berryessa Annual one and Two Mile Swims will be on Saturday June 4, 2005. You can register at www.damfast.org ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ==== ===== MAY JUNE NEWSLETTER The Pacific Masters May June Newsletter is now on line at http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/ The news letter includes information about the upcoming meets. It is the beginning of the Open Water Season and the Long Course season. Leianne Crittenden has written an article about Masters training at the Olympic High Altitude Training Center. ===== ==== Stanford University Invitational Grand Prix, May 20-22, 2005 The first annual Stanford University Invitational Grand Prix is coming May 20-22, 2005 to the Avery Aquatic Center. Many of the fastest and most exciting swimmers in the country, including Tara & Dana Kirk, Randall Bal, Peter Marshall, Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin will be participating in the meet. In order to host such a world-class event we need your help to make sure all the participants have a first-class experience. We are looking for volunteers, especially Timers and Meet Marshals. Not only do you get a front row seat at the meet, you are helping ensure the success of the event. To volunteer, please visit http://pasa.stanford.edu/SUGrandPrixSign-up/Scripts/index.pl and click on any of the team sites. Volunteer work opportunities include marshaling, drug testing escorts, timers and runners. For more information about volunteering, please contact Stanford Master's Swimmer Sue Jensen at grandprixswim@sbcglobal.net. If you would like to purchase tickets for the meet you can call 1-800-STANFORD or visit the Stanford Athletics Ticket Office at Gate 2 of the Stanford Football Stadium. Tickets for Prelims are $3-Youth/Senior and $5-Adult. Tickets for Finals are $6-Youth/Senior and $8-Adult. All Sessions passes are also available for the meet. Visit <>www.stanfordinvite.org for additional meet information, ===== WORLD MASTERS GAMES You're running out of time if you want to participate in the Edmonton World Masters Games! Friday, May 20 is the deadline to register. "Some sports are already full and others are filling up rapidly," says Games Executive Director Barry Anderson. "You can no longer afford to wait to register." There are already close to 17,000 athletes registered from 73 countries (numbers from May 11), so don't miss your chance to experience 10 days of world-class sport competition, with social and cultural festivities that celebrate sport for life. Passion qualifies you. All athletes registered for the Games are automatically entered for a chance to win a trip to the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games. The trip includes airfare, hotel and two paid athlete registrations. For just $75, your companion also qualifies for the special benefits of our Companion Program. Register now. To register as an athlete, companion or volunteer, or for details, visit the Edmonton 2005 World Masters Games website at http://www.2005worldmasters.com or call (780) 822-2005. You're never too old ? but you might be too late? ----- THE SOUTH-END ROWING CLUB'S 10TH ANNUAL ALCATRAZ INVITATIONAL SWIM COME TEST YOURSELF AGAINST A GREAT 1.25 MILE CROSS-CURRENT SWIM AND THEN HAVE BRUNCH! Saturday, July 30, 2005, Jump off the boat at 9:15 AM Lynne Cox the world's best cold-water open water swimmer and now a NY Times best-selling author, will be our guest of honor. 600 swimmers will be taken to Alcatraz, where the swim begins at approximately 9:15 a.m. and ends at our clubhouse at the foot of the Hyde St. Pier at 500 Jefferson St, where sauna and showers are available. Awards Ceremony begins at approximately 11:00 a.m. Awards to over-all winners in wet-suit and non-wetsuit divisions. T-shirt to all participants. Finisher Medals awarded to those that are able to complete the swim. Electronic Timing by PM EVENTS for accurate individual swim times, posted immediately after event ends Brunch served after the swim. Event over by 1:00 p.m. Proceeds benefit the South-End's Building Renovation Fund. Come see what your past generosity has produced with our newly renovated Cook Shack and Day Room. Registration and swim information is available at www.south-end.org Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/attachments/20050516/f73ecae9/attachment.html From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon May 30 23:23:08 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon May 30 23:28:34 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, May 30, 2005 Message-ID: Donn McPhail - RIP Don McPhail passed away last week. Donn of DeAnza Cupertino Aquatics, was instrumental in bringing the 1996 US Masters Swimming Short Course Championships to Cupertion. Donn worked PG&E in their marketing department. ==== OPEN WATER SEASON Lake Berryessa Annual one and Two Mile Swims will be on Saturday June 4, 2005. You can register at www.damfast.org. The Lake Berryessa swim is one of the most popular open water swims in the United States. The two mile swim around the island is great swim. Of course, if you breath on the left, you see very little of the island. DEL VALLE OPEN WATER SWIM date change The Lake Del Valle Open water swim date has changed from Saturday to Sunday. The meet will be on Sunday June 19th - Fathers day. Lake Del Valle is a great swimming lake above Livermore, about one hour from San Francisco or San Jose. DONNER LAKE OPEN WATER SWIM The Donner Lake 2.7 mile Open Water swim will be Saturday, August 6th SPLASH AND DASH The Burlingame Splash and Dash will be Sunday June 12th. This will be the only long course meet before Championships. It is a great way to see how your times compare to the qualifying times for Worlds. ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ==== COACHING CLINICS SWIM CLINICS at Foothill College - all ages/all levels OLYMPIC COACH AND OLYMPIC SWIMMER ROSS GERRY AND KATRINA RADKE OFFER SWIM CLINICS AND LEARN TO SWIM NOVICE TO EXPERT: AGE 5 AND UP (ADULTS WELCOME) FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES: PLEASE CALL KATRINA AT 650-906-0022 or email katrinaradke@aol.com Private lessons (1-3 kids) also available by appointment. ------------ ------------ Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and her husband and coach Eric Neilsen will be in the Northern California in July and August and are available to a conduct a Freestyle Swim Technique clinic at your facility during a scheduled masters practice. They teach a "wide entry, early catch" freestyle technique that Karlyn has been using since 2000 with tremendous success (still doing lifetime bests at 43). For more information, please contact Karlyn or Eric at: aquaticedge@hawaii.rr.com or call 808 331-1766 ----- THE SOUTH-END ROWING CLUB'S 10TH ANNUAL ALCATRAZ INVITATIONAL SWIM COME TEST YOURSELF AGAINST A GREAT 1.25 MILE CROSS-CURRENT SWIM AND THEN HAVE BRUNCH! Saturday, July 30, 2005, Jump off the boat at 9:15 AM Lynne Cox the world's best cold-water open water swimmer and now a NY Times best-selling author, will be our guest of honor. 600 swimmers will be taken to Alcatraz, where the swim begins at approximately 9:15 a.m. and ends at our clubhouse at the foot of the Hyde St. Pier at 500 Jefferson St, where sauna and showers are available. Awards Ceremony begins at approximately 11:00 a.m. Awards to over-all winners in wet-suit and non-wetsuit divisions. T-shirt to all participants. Finisher Medals awarded to those that are able to complete the swim. Electronic Timing by PM EVENTS for accurate individual swim times, posted immediately after event ends Brunch served after the swim. Event over by 1:00 p.m. Proceeds benefit the South-End's Building Renovation Fund. Come see what your past generosity has produced with our newly renovated Cook Shack and Day Room. Registration and swim information is available at www.south-end.org Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/attachments/20050530/ed457f25/attachment.html From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon Jun 6 02:13:09 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Mon Jun 6 02:17:58 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, June 5, 2005 Message-ID: SPLASH AND DASH - Next Sunday The Burlingame Splash and Dash will be Sunday June 12th. This will be the only long course meet before Championships. It is a great way to see how your times compare to the qualifying times for Worlds. OPEN WATER SEASON DEL VALLE OPEN WATER SWIM date change The Lake Del Valle Open water swim date has changed from Saturday to Sunday. The meet will be on Sunday June 19th - Fathers day. Lake Del Valle is a great swimming lake above Livermore, about one hour from San Francisco or San Jose. DONNER LAKE OPEN WATER SWIM The Donner Lake 2.7 mile Open Water swim will be Saturday, August 6th ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ==== IGLA MEET IN JULY International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) is hosting their 15th annual championship meet in Atlanta, Georgia this year. The IGLA Championships consist of swimming, water polo, diving, and synchronized swimming with athletes of all competitive levels, including many first timers aged 18 to 80. Previous Championships have included appearances by U.S. Olympic diver David Pichler, and U.S. Olympic swimming gold medallist Bruce Hayes. The five-day event will bring 1500+ participants. It will! be held July 20-25 at Georgia Tech's Aquatics Complex and the Washington Park Natatorium. More information can be found at the website: www.igla2005.org Registration closes June 20, 2005. ==== COACHING CLINICS Swim Clinic: Carol Macpherson Aquatic Center in Palo Alto. 45 years experience teaching and coaching from water babies to adults and past Olympians. Contact: Carol Tait Macpherson at: mailto:c-mac@mindspring.com or 650-493-5355 Morning classes also available In Redwood City in Emerald Hills area. Send address and you will receive a brochure ====== SWIM CLINICS at Foothill College - all ages/all levels OLYMPIC COACH AND OLYMPIC SWIMMER ROSS GERRY AND KATRINA RADKE OFFER SWIM CLINICS AND LEARN TO SWIM NOVICE TO EXPERT: AGE 5 AND UP (ADULTS WELCOME) FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES: PLEASE CALL KATRINA AT 650-906-0022 or email katrinaradke@aol.com Private lessons (1-3 kids) also available by appointment. ------------ Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and her husband and coach Eric Neilsen will be in the Northern California in July and August and are available to a conduct a Freestyle Swim Technique clinic at your facility during a scheduled masters practice. They teach a "wide entry, early catch" freestyle technique that Karlyn has been using since 2000 with tremendous success (still doing lifetime bests at 43). For more information, please contact Karlyn or Eric at: aquaticedge@hawaii.rr.com or call 808 331-1766 HELP WANTED - THE OLYMPIC CLUB The Olympic Club is currently looking for 2 part time lifeguards/coaches. They have a great new aquatic center in downtown San Francisco. Contact Scott at 415-345-5215 or swilliams@olyclub.com. ----- Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/attachments/20050605/602679ed/attachment.html From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Wed Jun 15 01:43:40 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Wed Jun 15 01:47:47 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, Flag Day, 2005 Message-ID: OPEN WATER SEASON DEL VALLE OPEN WATER SWIM date change The Lake Del Valle Open water swim date has changed from Saturday to Sunday. The meet will be on Sunday June 19th - Fathers day. Lake Del Valle is a great swimming lake above Livermore, about one hour from San Francisco or San Jose. Information on the meet is in the newsletter: http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/05/05mayjun.pdf LAKE SONOMA SWIM The Lake Sonoma Open Water swim will be on Saturday, June 25th. Lake Sonoma is about 80 miles north of San Francisco. http://www.lifeguardsforlife.org/comp/ You can register on-line for the Lake Sonoma Swim. PACIFIC MASTERS LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 Pacific Masters Long Course Championships will be held at University of California - Santa Cruz on July 8,9, 10. You can enter on line at: http://mastersswim.com/pc/meet/cruz You must enter by June 25 Post mark deadline. This is a great meet to see where you are in relation to making the qual times for the World Championships to be held next year at Stanford. LONG COURSE RECORDS The List of Pacific Masters and USMS National records is on the web site. Thanks to Nancy Ridout, our registrar and top ten chairman who is responsible for the production of this list. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/records PACIFIC MASTERS MONTHLY MEETING The June Monthly meeting will be held at Heather Farms, tomorrow night June 15th, 2005. All members are invited to attend. ======= DONNER LAKE OPEN WATER SWIM The Donner Lake 2.7 mile Open Water swim will be Saturday, August 6th ==== XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ==== IGLA MEET IN JULY International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) is hosting their 15th annual championship meet in Atlanta, Georgia this year. The IGLA Championships consist of swimming, water polo, diving, and synchronized swimming with athletes of all competitive levels, including many first timers aged 18 to 80. Previous Championships have included appearances by U.S. Olympic diver David Pichler, and U.S. Olympic swimming gold medallist Bruce Hayes. The five-day event will bring 1500+ participants. It will! be held July 20-25 at Georgia Tech's Aquatics Complex and the Washington Park Natatorium. More information can be found at the website: www.igla2005.org Registration closes June 20, 2005. ======= PRELIMINARY RESULTS LAKE BERRYESSA Lake Berryessa One and Two Mile Swim The preliminaray results for the Lake Berryessa one and two mile swims are on line. Please review your place / time in the race. Any corrections should be sent to info@onyourmarkevents.com. The deadline for corrections is Friday, June17th; after that date, they will be considered final. Thanks to Laural King and the entire Davis Aquatic Masters for putting on the Lake Berryessa swim. It is one of the largest open water swims in the United States. ==== COACHING CLINICS Swim Clinic: Carol Macpherson Aquatic Center in Palo Alto. 45 years experience teaching and coaching from water babies to adults and past Olympians. Contact: Carol Tait Macpherson at: mailto:c-mac@mindspring.com or 650-493-5355 Morning classes also available In Redwood City in Emerald Hills area. Send address and you will receive a brochure ====== HELP WANTED - THE OLYMPIC CLUB The Olympic Club is currently looking for 2 part time lifeguards/coaches. They have a great new aquatic center in downtown San Francisco. Contact Scott at 415-345-5215 or swilliams@olyclub.com. ----- Have a good week michael -- michael w. moore michael@mwmoore.org From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Tue Jun 28 23:26:43 2005 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (pacmasterupdate@PacificMasters.org) Date: Wed Jun 29 00:26:51 2005 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, June 28th, 2005 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2005 Pacific Masters Long Course Championships will be held at University of California - Santa Cruz on July 8,9, 10. You can enter on line at: http://mastersswim.com/pc/meet/cruz You can enter online till Wed midnight. This is a fine time to find out how close you are to a qual time for Worlds. SANTA CRUZ OPEN WATER The Santa Cruz open water swims will be on Saturday July 30 (Santa Cruz Pier Swim), Sunday July 31 Pier to Pier and the Cruz Cruise. USMS LONG COURSE NATIONALS The USMS Long Course National Championships will be at the marguerite Aquatics Center, Mission Viejo, California August 11-15. This is the first time Long Course National Championships has come to California in many years. http://www.usms.org/comp/lcnats05/ DONNER LAKE OPEN WATER SWIM The Donner Lake 2.7 mile Open Water swim will be Saturday, August 6th ==== FOLSOM LAKE SWIM CANCELLED The Folsom Lake Swim scheduled for July 17th has been cancelled. XI FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS EMAIL LIST The XI FINA Masters World Championships has an email list list to inform people about the Championships taking place at Stanford University in 2006. If you would like to be on the email list go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/finamasters to sign up. The first email has gone out. All email will be archived at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/finamasters/ ======= COACHING CLINICS Swim Clinic: Carol Macpherson Aquatic Center in Palo Alto. 45 years experience teaching and coaching from water babies to adults and past Olympians. Contact: Carol Tait Macpherson at: mailto:c-mac@mindspring.com or 650-493-5355 Morning classes also available In Redwood City in Emerald Hills area. Send address and you will receive a brochure ====== Have a good week michael -- OFF THE WALL I am writing this from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic where the first ASUA Long Course Masters Meet is being held. I am promoting the XI FINA World Masters Championships. My main computer is at home so I dont have all the information about what to say in the Update. I know I missed a couple of items. There are also a few open water results that have not yet been posted. They will be posted later this week. I did compete in the 800 Free today. I think I got the silver. I would like to personally thank Tod Spieker, Jim Clemmons, David Levinson, Jim DeLacey and a whole host of men in the 55-59 age group for passing up this meet. -- Michael Moore XI FINA Masters World Championships Stanford, California, USA August 2006