From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Fri Jan 2 10:36:18 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:36:18 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 1 January 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 To all of you, may you have a very happy and prosperous and healthy 2009 NORCAL COACHS CLINIC The NorCal Swim Shop Swim clinic will be .held 8 January through 11 January in Napa, California. Pacific Masters has helped coaches attend by paying up to 50% of the registration fee. Information about the clinic can be found at http://www.swimshop.com/norcal/assets/images/PCC/CLINIC%20REG%20ONLINE%2009.pdf If you are interested in attending and would like Pacific Masters to help with the registration fee, please contact Chris Campbell at mailto:coachchris at mvm.org . RECEIVING MORE THAN ONE COPY OF THE UPDATE? The Update list is over 17,000 recipients and we would like to cut down on the list. If you are receiving more than one copy of the update, please let us know which is the second address, so that we can cut that address from the list. Please email mailto:double at pacificmasters.org and we will take off the second address from the list. CLOVIS VIDEO The USMS Executive Director's Office prepared a video about the 2008 United States Short Course Yards Championships http://www.pacificmasters.org/general/clovisvideo.html BREASTSTROKE INTERPRETATION From USA Swimming "...we have been informed that FINA's interpretation is now different from our previous understanding of what constitutes the beginning of the first arm pull. In order for our interpretation to conform to that used by FINA, the following interpretation is being made, effective immediately. For purposes of Article 101.2.3, as it relates to what constitutes the initiation of the first arm pull and the allowed single downward butterfly kick, the following applies: After the start and after each turn, any lateral or downward movement of the hands or arms is considered to be the initiation of the first arm pull. " FINA PROPOSES UNIFORM SWIM SUIT RULE From USA today: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2008-12-23-fina-swimsuit-proposal_N.htm 2009 MEMBERSHIP As of yesterday there were 3614 people who have registered to be members of Pacific Masters Swimming. NUMBER OF PEOPLE REGISTERED BY CLUB (largest clubs) DAM Count 289 TCAM Count 264 WCM Count 198 MAM Count 162 CRUZ Count 134 USF Count 122 TEME Count 114 STAN Count 111 BAC Count 103 MVM Count 98 MELO Count 95 RAMS Count 95 MAAC Count 92 SCSC Count 92 Thank you to the 96 Clubs that have registered Alameda Aquatic Masters Arden Hills Masters Swimming Almaden Swim & Racquet Club Aquasol Masters Burlingame Aquatic Club Berkeley (CA) Aquatic Masters Bay Masters Golden Bear Swimming Brentwood Masters Swim Club Bear River Swimming Club Assistant Swim Team Chico Masters Swimming Clovis Swim Club Masters Cal Maritime Academy Masters Cosumnes River Aquatics Santa Cruz Masters Aquatics Club Sport of San Ramon Oakland Barracuda Masters Central Valley Aquatics Central Valley All Stars Carson Valley Masters Davis Athletic Club Davis Aquatic Masters Dolphin Club El Cerrito Aquatic Masters El Camino YMCA Masters El Dorado Hills Masters El Dorado Hills Masters El Dorado Hills Sports Club Ellis Electric Eels Fremont Glenmoor Masters Fountaingrove Master Swimming Fog City Masters H2Oldies Hercules Masters Swim Club Club Hot Tub Hanford YMCA Masters JCCSF Masters Swimming Los Altos Masters Los Altos Mountain View Masters Livermore Area Rec & Park Dist Los Gatos Swim And Racquet Club Loch Ness Masters Lodi Masters Ladera Oaks Masters Livermore Valley Tennis Club Modesto Area Aquatic Club Manatee Aquatic Masters Inc Menlo Masters Aka Team Sheeper Masters Penguin Swim Club Miracle Swimming Institute Millennium Makos Mount Tam Racquet Club Mountain View Masters Napa Valley Masters Oakwood Athletic Club Masters Orinda Aquatic Masters Peninsula Covenant Aquatic Masters Parkpoint Patriots Presentation Masters Petaluma Valley Masters Rocklin Aquatics Masters Redwood Coast Masters Rolling Hills Mud Sharks Rinconada Masters Sacramento Masters Santa Clara Swim Club Masters Santa Clara University Swimming South End Rowing Club San Francisco Rec & Parks Masters St Helena Masters Swimming San Mateo Master Marlins Sierra Marlins Swim Team Masters Sierra Nevada Masters South Palo Alto Masters San Rafael Aquatics Teams Santa Rosa Masters Stanford Masters Swimming Salinas Valley Aquatics Masters Tamalpais Aquatic Masters Tuolumne County Aquatic Masters Temescal Aquatic Masters The Olympic Club San Francisco Tsunami Masters Tri Valley Masters University of San Francisco Masters Vacaville Swim Club Valley Splash Aquatic Masters Valley Springs Masters Swimming Walnut Creek Masters West Coast Aquatic Masters Wine Country Masters Winters Aquatic Club Woodland Swim Team Masters Peninsula YMCA Barracudas Yuba City Masters Swimming INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf BREASTSTROKE CLINIC AND BUTTERFLY CLINIC Susie Powell and Cokie Lepinski of the Rolling Hills Mudsharks are conducting a Breaststroke Stroke Clinic on Saturday, January 10th from 12-3pm at the Meridian Rolling Hills Club in Novato. We'd love to have you come! If you are interested, contact Cokie (swimnut at mac.com, 415-827-5672) or Susie (swimsp at comcast.net, 415-672-2233). There is only room for 12, and we think this one might fill up, so if you are coming, you'll need to reserve a space soon. For this clinic, fins and a swim snorkel are recommended. If you come, you'll try out some amazing drills that will improve your kick, your pull, and your timing between your kick and pull. Our clinics are for swimmers of all levels. If you are a strong breaststroker, come! We can almost guarantee that you will be re-energized and inspired by this clinic. At the very least, you will have many new tools in your toolbox to improve your breaststroke. If you are someone who struggles with breaststroke, we're confident we can get you to learn the proper technique that helps to significantly reduce or eliminate the struggles you experience. If you are a mediocre breaststroke, we have lots of tips and tricks to get you to that next level. And heads up, our Butterfly Stroke Clinic is scheduled for Saturday, February 21st from 12-3pm and will also be held at the Meridian Rolling Hills Club in Novato. USMS LOOKING FORWARD TO A NEW YEAR U.S. Masters Swimming has had an exciting year full of big projects, fast swimming, the development of new goals, the moving forward of our vision, and changes in staff and structure. To read the complete article go to http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=100 TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. 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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:37:00 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 8 January 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 To all of you, may you have a very happy and prosperous and healthy 2009 LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SANTA CRUZ CANCELLED This year University of California Santa Cruz will be working on its 50 meter pool at the East Field House. Thjey will be resurfacing the entire pool, sixing and replacing tile where necessary and repairing and replacing the gutter and lane line stays. They expect the project will take to at leasst mid August. Pacific will be looking for a new location for its 2009 Pacific Masters Long Course Championships. If your team is interested in organizing the long course championships, please contact Barry Fasbender at BarryFasbender at comcast.net . Normally there are 400-to 600 competitors who will swim at the meet. NORCAL COACHS CLINIC The NorCal Swim Shop Swim clinic will be .held 8 January through 11 January in Napa, California. Pacific Masters has helped coaches attend by paying up to 50% of the registration fee. Information about the clinic can be found at http://www.swimshop.com/norcal/assets/images/PCC/CLINIC%20REG%20ONLINE%2009.pdf If you are interested in attending and would like Pacific Masters to help with the registration fee, please contact Chris Campbell at mailto:coachchris at mvm.org . RECEIVING MORE THAN ONE COPY OF THE UPDATE? The Update list is over 17,000 recipients and we would like to cut down on the list. If you are receiving more than one copy of the update, please let us know which is the second address, so that we can cut that address from the list. Please email mailto:double at pacificmasters.org and we will take off the second address from the list. INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. 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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:31:58 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 12 January 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 To all of you, may you have a very happy and prosperous and healthy 2009 UPCOMING MEETS FOG CITY QUADRATHON The Fog City Quadrathon will be at the Herbst Natatorium on campus of St Ignatius College Prep. The Fog City meet is the first competition of the year. It is the 500 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free and the 50 Free. The pre-entry deadline is 20 January ($20 for the four events) You can deck enter the meet at ($35 for the four events) http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09fogscy.pdf USF VALENTINES MEET The USF Valentines Day meet will be February 7th. This is one of the Pac Masters Swimming most popular meets attracting about 350 swimmers. All swimmers are encouraged to enter the meet on-line. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09usfscy.pdf JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can swim the event from now until the end of February. You just need to have a person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry (a four dollar discount from the paper entry). US MASTERS SWIMMING ONE HOUR SWIM The US Masters Swimming One Hour Postal Championship is a National Championships that you can compete in while not having to leave the comfort of your home pool. The objective is to swim as far as possible in one hour. The total number of yards swum determines the order of finish http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldnats09/ You can swim the One Hour and the Jon Steiner 1650 at the same time, so you can get a two fer for your efforts. GO THE DISTANCE US Masters Swimming continues its fitness program of tracking your swimming millage in the "Go The Distance" program. The program is just to track your daily yardage on an Excel spreadsheet. Once a month send the total to the Go the Distance chief - Mary Sweat. There are two forms that one can use. The first is the easy form of just tracking yardage, for those who realy want to track how that yardage was achieved - swimming, kicking, by stroke there is the advanced version of the swim sheet. (I am lucky I can just remember what the total yardage was for the day - let alone break it out). Linda Schoenberger wrote about the program in her "Come Join in the Fun" article on the US Masters Swimming web site (http://www.usms.org/fitness/articleofthemonth.php?a=170). Congratulation to Kent Price (960 Miles), Patricial Knowles (825 mi), Steve O'Neil (567 mi), Susan Miller (636) Jim Clemmons (619 mi), Sally Marshall 663 Mi Grasyon Marshall 508, Amy Beisheim 567, Andrew Scheiner 550 , Deb Bon 547. Pacific racked up 15395 miles, which was the most of any LMSC (but then we have the most swimmers). Oceana Zone (which includes Pacific) was fifth out of the eight zones. I encourage all swimmers to track their yardage over the year and to have fun. (bet with your lane mates who will swim the most miles - loser buys dinner). US MASTERS SWIMMING NEW LOGO One year ago, U.S. Masters Swimming formed a branding task force charged with the responsibility of writing a position paper on the identity of our organization. The brand task force developed and evaluated surveys and questionnaires, and conducted focus groups to define U.S. Masters Swimming, its members, both current and future, and the core beliefs of the organization. The work of the brand task force led to a rebranding effort and today the unveiling of a new brand logo for U.S. Masters Swimming. "We feel that the new brand logo represents our organization, where we are today and where we will be in the future," commented Lynn Hazelwood, branding task force chair. "We are pleased with the commitment of the Board of Directors and the U.S. Masters Swimming staff to the process and we are confident that this logo successfully defines U.S. Masters Swimming." "The icon in our new logo embraces our tradition of pool swimming while also coming across as very inviting to recreational and fitness swimmers, open water swimmers and triathletes," commented Executive Director Rob Butcher. "It was our goal to maintain our heritage while also recognizing the future of adult swimming." All U.S. Masters Swimming clubs and sanctioned events are encouraged to begin using the new brand logo according to the style guide applications. The new logo and accompanying style guide of use may be downloaded at http://www.usms.org/logos. APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. REGISTRATION UPDATE As of Sunday evening there were 5099 Pacific Masters members, and 99 clubs. The club with over 90 members are: DAM Count 442 TCAM Count 264 WCM Count 258 STAN Count 227 MAM Count 182 USF Count 181 SCSC Count 173 CRUZ Count 155 MELO Count 146 MVM Count 146 TEME Count 133 BAC Count 124 TVM Count 109 MAAC Count 108 RAMS Count 108 TSUN Count 101 RINC Count 96 SCAM Count 90 OFFICIALS CLINIC AT HEATHER FARMS 2009 Zone 2 Officials clinic on Saturday January 24, 2009 at the Heather Farms in Walnut Creek. Please invite any friends and other parents on your club that are interested to become a swimming official. This is for current officials to stay up to date on the rules, and for parents who want to become an Official. (No prior experience is necessary, just an eagerness to learn, and help the swimming community.) Date: Saturday January 24th, Time: Set up and Registration 8:00 - 8:30 Clinic/Training 8:30 - 12:00 Location: Heather Farm Park, "Club Room" - by the Pond (not by the Pool) 301 North San Carlos Drive Walnut Creek Directions: From I 680 North, take the Ygnacio Valley Road Exit and turn right. Turn Left onto North San Carlos Drive, past Heather Drive and take the next left into the parking lot. From I 680 South, take the Treat Boulevard Exit. Turn left onto North Main, and left onto Treat Boulevard. Turn right onto Bancroft Road. Turn right onto Ygnacio Valley Road. Turn right onto North San Carlos Drive, past Heather Drive and take the next left into the parking lot.) : Cost: FREE! Light refreshments will be provided. LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SANTA CRUZ CANCELLED This year University of California Santa Cruz will be working on its 50 meter pool at the East Field House. Thjey will be resurfacing the entire pool, sixing and replacing tile where necessary and repairing and replacing the gutter and lane line stays. They expect the project will take to at leasst mid August. Pacific will be looking for a new location for its 2009 Pacific Masters Long Course Championships. If your team is interested in organizing the long course championships, please contact Barry Fasbender at BarryFasbender at comcast.net . Normally there are 400-to 600 competitors who will swim at the meet. INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf ON RECEIVING TWO COPIEs OF THE UPDATE I've been so busy that I haven't been able to process all the requests for the removal of a second update email address. Could you include, "Many thanks to all of you who have responded with a request to remove a second email address from the Update list. The good news is that they will all be taken care of but the bad news is that they haven't all been removed as of today. It's a busy time and we appreciate your cooperation in paring down our email list. If you are getting two again this week, I apologize and will try to process everyone's request by the next Update. Thanks for your patience and Happy New Year!" -NANCY RIDOUT TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael OFF THE WALL - THE SHOULDER AGAIN After twelve days of rest due to the pool being closed, and after three months of not being in my regualr lane, it was fun to get back into the water with my lane mates. I felt very good and made sure that I was not leading the lane. It was so much different swimming at regular speed rather than really taking it easy. Since this was the first practice after a couple of weeks off, the practice was much easier than a normal practice, but after about 2000 yards, the shoulder was starting to feel a little "itchy" so I got out of the water, satisfied with the practice. On Wednesday, the practice included twice swimming 200 yards. I swam one in 3:01 and the other in 2:59, which I thought was rather well for just coming back. After about 50 minutes of swimming, the shoulder was starting to feel "itchy" so I got out again satisfied with the practie Today at practice, the shoulder did not bother me at all. However, swimming a bunch of 100s did get me out of breath (not much but a little). That actually felt pretty good to work hard in the water. At the end of practice, I had swum with my lane mates for a regular practice. The shoulder felt fine all during practice and did not bother me at all during the day - almost back to normal I will get back in the water on Wednesday. It felt good to swim hard. A few weeks ago, I was barely swimming a 50 in a minute, now just pulling, a couple of times I was back down to 40 seconds (most of the pulling was between 40 and 45 seconds). My kicking as gotten a little better, although I will have to watch out and not get back into my lazy kick. And I can do a flip turn again,but as always flip turns do use up a lot of oxygen. I am looking forward to being back in the water with my lane mates and working on getting my times down. If Laura Val keeps dropping her times, I should be able to work hard and drop mine. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Tue Jan 20 00:36:03 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:36:03 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 18 January 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 To all of you, may you have a very happy and prosperous and healthy 2009 GO THE DISTANCE US Masters Swimming continues its fitness program of tracking your swimming millage in the "Go The Distance" program. The program is just to track your daily yardage on an Excel spreadsheet. Once a month send the total to the Go the Distance chief - Mary Sweat. There are two forms that one can use. The first is the easy form of just tracking yardage, for those who realy want to track how that yardage was achieved - swimming, kicking, by stroke there is the advanced version of the swim sheet. (I am lucky I can just remember what the total yardage was for the day - let alone break it out). Linda Schoenberger wrote about the program in her "Come Join in the Fun" article on the US Masters Swimming web site (http://www.usms.org/fitness/articleofthemonth.php?a=170). I encourage all swimmers to track their yardage over the year and to have fun. (bet with your lane mates who will swim the most miles - loser buys dinner). It would help of Coaches posted the total yardage for the workout at the bottom of any workout board that they use. UPCOMING MEETS FOG CITY QUADRATHON The Fog City Quadrathon will be at the Herbst Natatorium on campus of St Ignatius College Prep. The Fog City meet is the first competition of the year. It is the 500 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free and the 50 Free. The pre-entry deadline is 20 January ($20 for the four events) You can deck enter the meet at ($35 for the four events) http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09fogscy.pdf USF VALENTINES MEET The USF Valentines Day meet will be February 7th. This is one of the Pac Masters Swimming most popular meets attracting about 350 swimmers. All swimmers are encouraged to enter the meet on-line. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09usfscy.pdf JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can swim the event from now until the end of February. You just need to have a person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry (a four dollar discount from the paper entry). US MASTERS SWIMMING ONE HOUR SWIM The US Masters Swimming One Hour Postal Championship is a National Championships that you can compete in while not having to leave the comfort of your home pool. The objective is to swim as far as possible in one hour. The total number of yards swum determines the order of finish http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldnats09/ You can swim the One Hour and the Jon Steiner 1650 at the same time, so you can get a two fer for your efforts. Workouts Available to Members Online How would you like to have workouts delivered directly to your e-mail box? U.S. Masters Swimming has four coaches who post weekly workouts on our Discussion Forums. As a U.S. Masters Swimming member, you can subscribe to these workout threads and have them delivered to you by e-mail. The 2009 online coaches are Mo Chambers, Nate McBride, Jacki Hirsty and Patrick Cantrell To use this feature you will have to first create a Discussion Forums account. To create your account, just fill out the forms here and follow the link that will be sent to you via e-mail in order to fully activate your account. http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=103 APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. REGISTRATION UPDATE As of Monday evening there were 5545 Pacific Masters members, and 99 clubs. The club with over 90 members are: DAM Count 466 TCAM Count 359 WCM Count 313 STAN Count 254 USF Count 210 SCSC Count 190 MAM Count 184 MELO Count 169 CRUZ Count 159 MVM Count 152 TEME Count 138 BAC Count 126 RAMS Count 118 TVM Count 115 MAAC Count 108 TSUN Count 107 SCAM Count 101 RINC Count 100 BAY Count 95 OFFICIALS CLINIC AT HEATHER FARMS 2009 Zone 2 Officials clinic on Saturday January 24, 2009 at the Heather Farms in Walnut Creek. Please invite any friends and other parents on your club that are interested to become a swimming official. This is for current officials to stay up to date on the rules, and for parents who want to become an Official. (No prior experience is necessary, just an eagerness to learn, and help the swimming community.) Date: Saturday January 24th, Time: Set up and Registration 8:00 - 8:30 Clinic/Training 8:30 - 12:00 Location: Heather Farm Park, "Club Room" - by the Pond (not by the Pool) 301 North San Carlos Drive Walnut Creek Directions: From I 680 North, take the Ygnacio Valley Road Exit and turn right. Turn Left onto North San Carlos Drive, past Heather Drive and take the next left into the parking lot. From I 680 South, take the Treat Boulevard Exit. Turn left onto North Main, and left onto Treat Boulevard. Turn right onto Bancroft Road. Turn right onto Ygnacio Valley Road. Turn right onto North San Carlos Drive, past Heather Drive and take the next left into the parking lot.) : Cost: FREE! Light refreshments will be provided. THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS Coach Richard Quick was diagnosed with a brain cancer. Quick who coached at Stanford from 1988 to 2005 moved to Auburn in 2007 A new Prayer Pager has been set up for Coach Quick at 334-742-5237. Whenever someone says a prayer for him, they can send a page to that number anonymously to cause his pager to vibrate. INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Wed Feb 4 00:45:57 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:45:57 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update "The Day the Music Died" + 50 years Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- USF VALENTINES MEET The USF Valentines Day meet will be February 7th. This is one of the Pac Masters Swimming most popular meets attracting about 350 swimmers. All swimmers are encouraged to enter the meet on-line. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09usfscy.pdf FIRST BEAR DONT HIBERNATE MEET The first Bear dont Hibernate Meet will be held Contra Costa College Swimming Pool in San Pablo. There are 33 events to pick and choose from. Pre-entry Deadline is 13 February. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09bear.scy.pdf WALNUT CREEK INTENSIVE TRAINING CAMP The 22nd Walnut Creek Intensive Training Camp will be March 6,7,and 8 at Heather Farm's Clark Swim Center. Besides the great 'Creek coaches Brian Stack of the Manatees, Mike Collins and Jim Miller, MD of Virginia Masters will help swimmers swim their best. This event always sells out so register now if you want to attend. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09wcmtrain.pdf RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the 1000 free, which you must pre enter. The preentery deadline is 4 March 2009. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for this one. - one heat only. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21 March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at http://scam.mastersswim.com SHEILA TAROMINA TO SPEAK Sheila Taromina who has competed in four different Olympiads in three different sports will speak on Saturday 2/21 at 3-6 pm. She be talking about her experiences, her training methodologies (especially for the not-so-young multisport athlete) and some of her ways of coping with the obstacles that life throws in the way. Coach Chris Campbell owes me a specific title that I can put in the announcements. Admission is free. The venue will be announced in the next update (along with the title). SAN FRANCISCO - THE CITY WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER OF MASTERS SWIMMERS In a city with one 50 meter pool (kinda), nine clubs, two open water pools (one is just for the summer), two clubs that are exclusively in the Bay, San Francisco is the city with the most number of registered US Masters Swimming swimmers. Almost 1200 Masters swimmers live in the city by the bay, beating New York City by over 500 athletes; Los Angles is the city with the third highest number of swimmers at 449. Congratulation to all the coaches and athletes. Pacific Teams are the largest in USMS The final final numbers are not quite in but a quick review of the teams show that Pacific Teams are the largest local teams in USMS. Below is a list of local teams that have more than 200 members. DAM 665 WCM 500 TCAM 482 STAN 468 NOVA 435 CUBU 419 ISF 417 VMST 372 USF 344 MELO 336 TNYA 332 SCSC 326 FLAQ 305 WMST 289 CRUZ 275 SPM 263 UCLA 241 MVN 230 MAM 228 MVM 220 SYSM 217 WH2O 216 ANCM 203 MAAC 201 JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can swim the event from now until the end of February. You just need to have a person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry (a four dollar discount from the paper entry). GO THE DISTANCE US Masters Swimming continues its fitness program of tracking your swimming millage in the "Go The Distance" program. The program is just to track your daily yardage on an Excel spreadsheet. Once a month send the total to the Go the Distance chief - Mary Sweat. There are two forms that one can use. The first is the easy form of just tracking yardage, for those who realy want to track how that yardage was achieved - swimming, kicking, by stroke there is the advanced version of the swim sheet. (I am lucky I can just remember what the total yardage was for the day - let alone break it out). Linda Schoenberger wrote about the program in her "Come Join in the Fun" article on the US Masters Swimming web site (http://www.usms.org/fitness/articleofthemonth.php?a=170). I encourage all swimmers to track their yardage over the year and to have fun. (bet with your lane mates who will swim the most miles - loser buys dinner). It would help of Coaches posted the total yardage for the workout at the bottom of any workout board that they use. Workouts Available to Members Online How would you like to have workouts delivered directly to your e-mail box? U.S. Masters Swimming has four coaches who post weekly workouts on our Discussion Forums. As a U.S. Masters Swimming member, you can subscribe to these workout threads and have them delivered to you by e-mail. The 2009 online coaches are Mo Chambers, Nate McBride, Jacki Hirsty and Patrick Cantrell To use this feature you will have to first create a Discussion Forums account. To create your account, just fill out the forms here and follow the link that will be sent to you via e-mail in order to fully activate your account. http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=103 APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. ITS ALL IN THE WATER Dr Jim Miller wrote an article on keeping hydrated during exercise which appears on the USMS web site. Keeping hydrated is a critical key to performance. http://www.usms.org/articles/articledisplay.php?a=174 US MASTERS SWIMMING HAS A NEW E-NEWSLETTER - BEHIND THE BLOCKS US Masters Swimming has a new e-newsletter which has already gone out. If you did not receive it - you may not be alone more than one member of the US Masters Swimming Board of Directors did not receive it either. Ashley has done a great job in production of the colorful newsletter. Go to http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?p=oi&m=1102294150505 to sign up for the USMS News letter. (You can also go to the USMS web site to sign up for it). US MASTERS SWIMMING RULES OF COMPETITION The 2009 edition of the US Masters Swimming Rules of Competition are on the web at http://www.usms.org/rules/ Besides the first four pages of the swimming rules (which every swimmer should read) it also has all of the National Records. PAN AMERICAN MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS OCTOBER 09 The III Pan American Masters Championships will be held in Veracruz, Mexico during the week of October 25, 2009. The swimming event will be short course meters. The exact dates should be announced in the very near future. The Championships will include swimming; open water and one additional discipline and will likely be a 5 day format. INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED FROM WIKIPEDIA "On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 song "American Pie"." -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Fri Feb 13 21:50:45 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:50:45 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update 14 February 2009 Message-ID: <8F23EA77-2DB7-42E1-88F2-105F08AEBEF2@sonic.net> PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- USF VALENTINES MEET RESULTS The USF Valentines Day meet results of February 7th have been posted. 385 Swimmers competed, which made it one of the largest meets that they have held. Thanks of Duke Dahlin, Cathy Huang and the USF Masters for putting on the meet http://pacificmasters.org/comp/results.shtml SHEILA TAROMINA TO SPEAK Sheila Taromina who has competed in four different Olympiads in three different sports will speak on Saturday 2/21 at 3-6 pm. She be talking about her experiences, her training methodologies (especially for the not-so-young multisport athlete) and some of her ways of coping with the obstacles that life throws in the way. Coach Chris Campbell owes me a specific title that I can put in the announcements. Admission is free. She will be speaking att he Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Esculea Av, Mountain View. Admission is free to members of US Masters Swimming and USA Triathlon and their guests. FIRST BEAR DONT HIBERNATE MEET The first Bear dont Hibernate Meet will be held Contra Costa College Swimming Pool in San Pablo. There are 33 events to pick and choose from. Pre-entry Deadline is 13 February. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09bear.scy.pdf The preentry deadline is today. You can still register on line at: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1192&smid=1567 WALNUT CREEK INTENSIVE TRAINING CAMP The 22nd Walnut Creek Intensive Training Camp will be March 6,7,and 8 at Heather Farm's Clark Swim Center. Besides the great 'Creek coaches Brian Stack of the Manatees, Mike Collins and Jim Miller, MD of Virginia Masters will help swimmers swim their best. This event always sells out so register now if you want to attend. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09wcmtrain.pdf RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the 1000 free, which you must pre enter. The preentery deadline is 4 March 2009. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for this one. - one heat only. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21 March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at http://scam.mastersswim.com US MASTERS SWIMMING SHORT COURSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Short Course online meet registration is now open. You can register at https://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/onlineentry.php The Short Course Championships will be held in Clovis, California at the new Clovis North Swimming pools. Pacific Masters is the host LMSC of the championships and we hope that everyone consider participating at the championships. JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can swim the event from now until the end of February. You just need to have a person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry (a four dollar discount from the paper entry). GO THE DISTANCE US Masters Swimming continues its fitness program of tracking your swimming millage in the "Go The Distance" program. The program is just to track your daily yardage on an Excel spreadsheet. Once a month send the total to the Go the Distance chief - Mary Sweat. There are two forms that one can use. The first is the easy form of just tracking yardage, for those who realy want to track how that yardage was achieved - swimming, kicking, by stroke there is the advanced version of the swim sheet. (I am lucky I can just remember what the total yardage was for the day - let alone break it out). Linda Schoenberger wrote about the program in her "Come Join in the Fun" article on the US Masters Swimming web site (http://www.usms.org/fitness/articleofthemonth.php?a=170 ). I encourage all swimmers to track their yardage over the year and to have fun. (bet with your lane mates who will swim the most miles - loser buys dinner). It would help of Coaches posted the total yardage for the workout at the bottom of any workout board that they use. Right now Walnut Creek swimmers are just barely leading Manatee Masters by less than a mile. I hope all swimmers will participate. REGIONAL CLUB CATAGORIES The USMS House of Delegates passed a new rule regarding club scoring at Nationals to take effect beginning with Short Course Nationals in Clovis. Previously, club awards at Nationals simply went to the top ten highest scoring clubs in Men?s, Women?s and Combined categories. The new rule establishes two separate club categories: Regional and Local. A formal definition of the two club categories as well as the list of regional clubs is at: http://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?t=13270 SUZANNE HEIM-BOWEN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL AND JOINS THE SWIM TEAM From the US Masters Swimming web site "A Masters Swimmer's Return to College Swimming "In 1977 Suzanne Heim-Bowen was a founding member of the women's swimming team at California Polytechnic State University, San Obispo, Cal. (Cal Poly), but only competed for two seasons during her college career. With remaining eligibility, Suzanne enrolled in classes and joined the swim team at Diablo Valley College, a two-year community college, in early 2009 at the age of 50. Suzanne maintains her full- time job as a school psychologist, attends a full schedule of college courses, and manages to swim with not one, but three, teams in her local area!" more at http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=113 US MASTERS SWIMMING'S HEADQUARTERS TO SARASOTA, FLORIDA U.S. Masters Swimming, is pleased to announce it has selected Sarasota, Fla., in which to establish its national headquarters. After an extensive search process that included the review of numerous proposals from various cities across the country, the U.S. Masters Swimming Board of Directors approved the selection of Sarasota. "This is a significant milestone in the history of U.S. Masters Swimming," commented Rob Copeland, U.S. Masters Swimming president. "For nearly 40 years, we have existed as a virtual, volunteer-run organization. Our membership has continued and is continuing to grow. We are now at nearly 50,000 members, and with the hiring of an executive director and additional staff, establishing a national headquarters is a natural evolution." "Sarasota, through the entire process, exhibited a tremendous volunteer spirit that marries well with our culture," continued Copeland. "They are committed to health and fitness, and aquatics are an important part of their community, as evidenced by the nationally recognized Sarasota Sharks age-group and Masters swimming programs. They also are a community steeped in giving, with numerous foundations, which also fits well with our own foundation program. The Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County developed a diverse committee that included local Masters swimmers, the Sarasota YMCA, Ringling College, University of South Florida Sarasota -Manatee, the city, the county and private business leaders, all coming together to make us feel very welcome. We see important short-term and long- term opportunities in Sarasota that we believe can best serve our initiatives. We in turn look forward to being a terrific and valued partner to Sarasota. http://www.usms.org/news/newsitem.php?n=56 Workouts Available to Members Online How would you like to have workouts delivered directly to your e-mail box? U.S. Masters Swimming has four coaches who post weekly workouts on our Discussion Forums. As a U.S. Masters Swimming member, you can subscribe to these workout threads and have them delivered to you by e- mail. The 2009 online coaches are Mo Chambers, Nate McBride, Jacki Hirsty and Patrick Cantrell To use this feature you will have to first create a Discussion Forums account. To create your account, just fill out the forms here and follow the link that will be sent to you via e-mail in order to fully activate your account. http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=103 Does Regular Swimming Reduce Your Risk of Dying? by Steven N. Blair, P.E.D. - University of South Carolina "Physical inactivity is documented as a major public health problem, and inactive and unfit persons are more likely to develop chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and other ailments lose function with age and thereby lose their independence and die prematurely. Most of the evidence on physical activity and health is from experimental studies of aerobic exercise, typically running and epidemiological studies of self-reported physical activity habits or measured physical fitness. Evidence from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS) indicates that individuals who report swimming for exercise have baseline risk factor profiles similar to runners, and better profiles than those who are sedentary. "Recent analyses in the ACLS have addressed mortality rates in sedentary individuals, walkers, swimmers, and runners. More than 40,000 men in the ACLS completed an extensive medical examination, including a self-report of their physical activity habits, and were then followed for several years for mortality. Preliminary analyses show that mortality rates in swimmers were less than one half those observed in sedentary men (p<0.01). Future analyses will evaluate mortality rates in walkers and runners. We conclude that men who swim for exercise have better survival rates than their sedentary peers." This is from a study financed by the National Swimming Pool Foundation http://nspfcart.eproacademy.org/store/comersus_listCategories.asp APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. US MASTERS SWIMMING HAS A NEW E-NEWSLETTER - BEHIND THE BLOCKS US Masters Swimming has a new e-newsletter which has already gone out. If you did not receive it - you may not be alone more than one member of the US Masters Swimming Board of Directors did not receive it either. Ashley has done a great job in production of the colorful newsletter. Go to http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?p=oi&m=1102294150505 to sign up for the USMS News letter. (You can also go to the USMS web site to sign up for it). Sports Medicine & Science Presentations For several years the USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee has been arranging presentations that are given during national championship meets. Leading professionals provide information on various sports science and medicine topics. The committee is interested in finding out what medical and scientific topics related to swimming, training, and health you are interested in hearing about. Please post your requests and we will design upcoming presentations around the most popular topics. Thanks for your input. John Morales USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee WINTER ISSUE OF STREAMLINES IS READY The Winter issue of Stremlines, the newsletter for the administration of US Masters Swimming is now available on line: http://www.usms.org/admin/stream2009winter.pdf INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED FROM JOHN MORELES "January 12, 1999 was the day the music died. That was the release date for Britney Spear's debut album.....Baby One More Time." -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org This is the up date for Pacific Masters Swimming. You are on this list because either you wrote your email address on your Pacific Masters Swimming application or you subscribed. If you wish to unsubscribe, click on the proper header listed above. For information about Pacific Masters Swimming, go to http://www.pacificmasters.org From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon Feb 16 21:37:42 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:37:42 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update Presidents Da Message-ID: <2735B511-7BC5-424D-9008-3BD4DAA5A0BD@sonic.net> PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- SHEILA TAROMINA TO SPEAK Sheila Taromina who has competed in four different Olympiads in three different sports will speak on Saturday 2/21 at 3-6 pm. She be talking about her experiences, her training methodologies (especially for the not-so-young multisport athlete) and some of her ways of coping with the obstacles that life throws in the way. Coach Chris Campbell owes me a specific title that I can put in the announcements. Admission is free. She will be speaking att he Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Esculea Av, Mountain View. Admission is free to members of US Masters Swimming and USA Triathlon and their guests. FIRST BEAR DONT HIBERNATE MEET The first Bear dont Hibernate Meet will be held Contra Costa College Swimming Pool in San Pablo. There are 33 events to pick and choose from. You can still register on line at: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1192&smid=1567 RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the 1000 free, which you must pre enter. The preentery deadline is 4 March 2009. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for this one. - one heat only. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf You can enter online at rinc.mastersswim.com COACHES WHO WANT TO GET ASCA CREDIT Coaches in the process of going through the ASCA (American Swim Coaches Association) accreditation program, ASCA will credit 10 points towards the= ir credential if they wish to observe the Walnut Creek Masters Intensive Training Camp and sit in on the stroke schools, workouts, and lectures, video analysis sessions during the camp. The date of the Camp is March 6-8. Those interested should contact Kerry O'Brien at swim4wc at netscape.net for further information. PACIFIC MASTERS MONTHLY MEETING The Pacific Masters Swimming Monthly meeting will be a phone meeting. If you would like to call to attend, write to me at chairman at pacificmasters.org and I will send you the phone number and log in code. PACIFIC MASTERS OFFICE SHORT STAFF UNTIL FRIDAY The Pacific Masters swimming will be short staffed until Friday. INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael OFF THE WALL OK I have not been traveling much recently so in the past ten days, I went to a Board of Directors meeting in Dallas, last week fly to Seattle for a bank conference and then last Thursday flew to Washington DC to visit our nations capital. It has been a great but hectic trip. I have seen the US Capitol, the Surpreme Court, the Postal Musuem and Union Station - and that was the first day. Today, I was in Alexandria to walk around Olde Towne and see the Washington's Birthday parade. The parade was great. It was a typical small town parade. Every politician was there marching in the parade. There were bands, horses, Vetrians of Foreign Wars and at the end were troops of brownies, girl scouts, cub and boy scouts. The weather was cold and I think now I will take a shower just to warm up. Thanks to everyone who has remared about the shoulder stories. -michael Arlinton, VA Coaches in the process of going through the ASCA (American Swim Coache= s Association) accreditation program, ASCA will credit 10 points towards the= ir credential if they wish to observe the Walnut Creek Masters Intensive Tra= ining Camp and sit in on the stroke schools, workouts, and lectures, video a= nalysis sessions during the camp. The date of the Camp is March 6-8. Those i= nterested should contact Kerry O'Brien at swim4wc at netscape.net for further i= nformation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Thu Feb 26 00:06:31 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:06:31 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 25 February 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- FIRST BEAR DONT HIBERNATE MEET - THIS SUNDAY The first Bear dont Hibernate Meet will be held Contra Costa College Swimming Pool in San Pablo. There are 33 events to pick and choose from. Pre-entry Deadline is 13 February. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09bear.scy.pdf WALNUT CREEK INTENSIVE TRAINING CAMP The 22nd Walnut Creek Intensive Training Camp will be March 6,7,and 8 at Heather Farm's Clark Swim Center. Besides the great 'Creek coaches Brian Stack of the Manatees, Mike Collins and Jim Miller, MD of Virginia Masters will help swimmers swim their best. This event always sells out so register now if you want to attend. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09wcmtrain.pdf RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the 1000 free, which you must pre enter. The preentery deadline is 4 March 2009. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for this one. - one heat only. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21 March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at http://scam.mastersswim.com PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at: http://wcm.mastersswim.com JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can swim the event from now until the end of February. You just need to have a person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry (a four dollar discount from the paper entry). US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 p.m. pacific time on April 9, 2009. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ 2008 Open Water Points March/April Newsletter The results of the Open Water Points competition are listed in the March April Newsletter. The March April Newsletter is now posted on the web site: http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/09/09marapr.pdf Workouts Available to Members Online How would you like to have workouts delivered directly to your e-mail box? U.S. Masters Swimming has four coaches who post weekly workouts on our Discussion Forums. As a U.S. Masters Swimming member, you can subscribe to these workout threads and have them delivered to you by e-mail. The 2009 online coaches are Mo Chambers, Nate McBride, Jacki Hirsty and Patrick Cantrell To use this feature you will have to first create a Discussion Forums account. To create your account, just fill out the forms here and follow the link that will be sent to you via e-mail in order to fully activate your account. http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=103 APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. US MASTERS SWIMMING HAS A NEW E-NEWSLETTER - BEHIND THE BLOCKS US Masters Swimming has a new e-newsletter which has already gone out. If you did not receive it - you may not be alone more than one member of the US Masters Swimming Board of Directors did not receive it either. Ashley has done a great job in production of the colorful newsletter. Go to http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?p=oi&m=1102294150505 to sign up for the USMS News letter. (You can also go to the USMS web site to sign up for it). US MASTERS SWIMMING RULES OF COMPETITION The 2009 edition of the US Masters Swimming Rules of Competition are on the web at http://www.usms.org/rules/ Besides the first four pages of the swimming rules (which every swimmer should read) it also has all of the National Records. INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Thu Mar 5 00:26:48 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:26:48 -0800 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 4 March 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. -------- RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the 1000 free, which you must pre enter. The preentery deadline is 4 March 2009. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for this one. - one heat only. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21 March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at http://scam.mastersswim.com PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at: http://wcm.mastersswim.com US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 p.m. pacific time on April 9, 2009. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ 2008 Open Water Points March/April Newsletter The results of the Open Water Points competition are listed in the March April Newsletter. The March April Newsletter is now posted on the web site: http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/09/09marapr.pdf APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. US MASTERS SWIMMING HAS A NEW E-NEWSLETTER - BEHIND THE BLOCKS US Masters Swimming has a new e-newsletter which has already gone out. If you did not receive it - you may not be alone more than one member of the US Masters Swimming Board of Directors did not receive it either. Ashley has done a great job in production of the colorful newsletter. Go to http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?p=oi&m=1102294150505 to sign up for the USMS News letter. (You can also go to the USMS web site to sign up for it). THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GEORGE VIGUIE George Vigue of Rolling Hills Mud Sharks passed away 22 February while swimming at a pool in Petaluma. Apparently, he swam to the edge of the pool, took off his goggles, and put his arms up on the deck to rest. A swimmer noticed that he hadn't moved for awhile, and when he checked out George, there was no pulse. George competed in the 60-64 age group. George was known for his subtle sense of humor. VICTORIA CHIDESTER Victoria Chidester of Colorado Masters trained for last years USMS Short Course Nationals. She was the "cover girl" for the July/August 2008 USMS Swimmer. She had stage four colon cancer, but had a unbeat,positive outlook that BIll Volckening wrote about in a special web article. Victoria died on 3 March after a three year battle with cancer. The article is on the USMS Swimmer website: http://www.usmsswimmer.com/issue.php?i=21 INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Wed Mar 11 23:11:18 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:11:18 -0700 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 11 March 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. CHANGES IN OPEN WATER AND LONG DISTANCE SCHEDULE - SEE BELOW TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. i try to keep track of everyone who wants to get off the email list -they go on a separate list, so that when we add to next year, we try to keep people who want to be off the list off the list. Sending emails to other than pacmasterupdate will not keep our want to keep of the list list current. -------- RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the 1000 free, which you must pre enter. You can deck enter everything but the 1000 freestyle. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for this one. - one heat only. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21 March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at http://scam.mastersswim.com PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at: http://wcm.mastersswim.com CHANGES IN SCHEDULE. PARKSIDE MILE The Parkside Mile has moved to 25 April, same place, but had to change the date. SPRING LAKE MILE The Spring Lake Mile has been moved to the 16th Of May. It is a week earlier than what has been on the schedule. 2009 PACIFIC MASTERS LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS Chabot Masters have graciously offered to organize the 2009 Pacific Masters Long Course Championships. The championships will be held at Chabot Junior College in Hayward 10-12 July 2009. US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 p.m. pacific time on April 9, 2009. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ 2008 Open Water Points March/April Newsletter The results of the Open Water Points competition are listed in the March April Newsletter. The March April Newsletter is now posted on the web site: http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/09/09marapr.pdf APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. SWIMFEST 09 US MASTERS SWIMMING will be sponsoring SwimFest 09 for coaches and swimmers at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, TX (near Houston). For coaches it will be a chance to work with some of the greatest coaches in Masters Swimming: Kerry O'Brien, Kris Houchesn, Mike Collins and Jim Montogmery. They will work with coaches on their coaching technique and mentor The Masters coaches ill cover the business of being a Masters Coach and other topics. Swimmers will be able to improve their swimming and work on all four strokes, starts and turns under the guidance of great coaches. U.S. Masters Swimming will be awarding a limited number of coach scholarships. If you are a Masters coach and need financial assistance to attend, please contact Mel Goldstein, Director of Club & Coach Services via email or by phone at 317-253-8289. Coaches are free Swimmers are $85. More info at http://www.usms.org/swimfest/ US MASTERS SWIMMING HAS A NEW E-NEWSLETTER - BEHIND THE BLOCKS US Masters Swimming has a new e-newsletter which has already gone out. If you did not receive it - you may not be alone more than one member of the US Masters Swimming Board of Directors did not receive it either. Ashley has done a great job in production of the colorful newsletter. Go to http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?p=oi&m=1102294150505 to sign up for the USMS News letter. (You can also go to the USMS web site to sign up for it). INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Tue Mar 17 00:11:14 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:11:14 -0700 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 16 March 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. CHANGES IN OPEN WATER AND LONG DISTANCE SCHEDULE - SEE BELOW TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate@ six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. i try to keep track of everyone who wants to get off the email list -they go on a separate list, so that when we add to next year, we try to keep people who want to be off the list off the list. Sending emails to other than pacmasterupdate will not keep our want to keep of the list list current. -------- PACIFIC MASTERS MONTHLY MEETING The monthly meeting of Pacific Masters Swimming will be held at Heather Farms, Walnut Creek California. All members are invited to attend and all teams are asked to send a representative to the meeting. SERVICE AWARD NOMINATIONS At this month's meeting, we will be choosing the swimmers of the year. We will also be nominating and choosing the Contributor of the Year, the Appreciation Award recipient, the Distinguished Service award and the recipient of the Personal Achievement Award. Contributor of the Year Award The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding contributions to Masters Swimming during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. Personal Achievement Award The purpose of this award is to recognize long term dedication to our program and reward noticeable improvement in one's own skills and times Distinguished Service Award The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding contributions to Pacific Masters Swimming. Appreciation Award The purpose of this award is to express special thanks to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions to PMS. The criteria for the award is in the Admin handbook at http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/gto/admin09.pdf Any Pacific Masters swimmer may nominate a person or club for these awards. Please send you nomination to either Michael Moore (chairman at pacificmasters.org or Nancy Ridout (registrar at pacificmasters.org) RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SCY MEET RESULTS The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course results have been posted. Thanks to Jim Shaw, Carol MacPherson and the Rinconada Masters Team for puttong on the meet. The Santa Clara University Swim Club had many swimmers represented at the meet. This was the first Masters Meet for many of the swimmers. SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21 March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at http://scam.mastersswim.com PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at: http://wcm.mastersswim.com CHANGES IN SCHEDULE. PARKSIDE MILE The Parkside Mile has moved to 25 April, same place, but had to change the date. SPRING LAKE MILE The Spring Lake Mile has been moved to the 16th Of May. It is a week earlier than what has been on the schedule. 2009 PACIFIC MASTERS LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS Chabot Swim team have graciously offered to organize the 2009 Pacific Masters Long Course Championships. The championships will be held at Chabot College in Hayward 10-12 July 2009. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TEACHING ADULTS TO SWIM Melon Dash wrote an article in Aquatics International about Fear Factor - What you should know about teaching adults to swim. You can read it on line at: http://www.aquaticsintl.com/2009/mar/0903_viewpoint.html US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on April 9, 2009. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ FINA REQUIREMENTS FOR SWIMWARE FINA the international governing body has released its requirements for swimwear. The main points are The swimsuit shall not cover the neck and shall not extend past the shoulders nor past the ankles. All swimsuits of an approved model must be constructed in an identical fashion with no variation/modification for individual swimmers. The swimmer can only wear one swimsuit More information may be found at http://www.fina.org/project/images/help/the%20dubai%20charter.pdf APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. SWIMFEST 09 US MASTERS SWIMMING will be sponsoring SwimFest 09 for coaches and swimmers at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, TX (near Houston). For coaches it will be a chance to work with some of the greatest coaches in Masters Swimming: Kerry O'Brien, Kris Houchesn, Mike Collins and Jim Montogmery. They will work with coaches on their coaching technique and mentor The Masters coaches ill cover the business of being a Masters Coach and other topics. Swimmers will be able to improve their swimming and work on all four strokes, starts and turns under the guidance of great coaches. U.S. Masters Swimming will be awarding a limited number of coach scholarships. If you are a Masters coach and need financial assistance to attend, please contact Mel Goldstein, Director of Club & Coach Services via email or by phone at 317-253-8289. Coaches are free Swimmers are $85. More info at http://www.usms.org/swimfest/ INDIVIDUAL RENEWAL You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, it is very easy, just go to: https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38 and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs listed below you can register with your club. If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can change membership. For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still has a paper registration form to send to Nancy. http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Thu Mar 19 23:20:42 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:20:42 -0700 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 19 March 2009 - One Suit Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. ONE SUIT RULE Policy Statement There have recently been a number of questions regarding the use of two swimsuits during competition. Although the USA Swimming Rules & Regulations do not specifically address this, FINA has interpreted its General Rule GR 5.3 to allow the use of only one swimsuit during competition. Our Rules & Regulations require that USA Swimming's technical swimming rules conform to those of FINA. In order for our interpretation to conform to that used by FINA, the following interpretation is being made, effective immediately. For purposes of Article 102.9 of the USA Swimming Rules & Regulations, Swimwear, the use of more than one swimsuit at a time during any USA Swimming sanctioned or approved competition is prohibited. Masters swimming follows USA Swimming unless specifically rejected. We will be following this rule, unless we hear differently from the US Masters Swimming Rules Committee michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Thu Mar 26 23:57:15 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:57:15 -0700 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 26 March 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. CHANGES IN OPEN WATER AND LONG DISTANCE SCHEDULE - SEE BELOW TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate@ six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. i try to keep track of everyone who wants to get off the email list -they go on a separate list, so that when we add to next year, we try to keep people who want to be off the list off the list. Sending emails to other than pacmasterupdate will not keep our want to keep of the list list current. ONLINE REGISTRATION ON HOLD The Club Assistant registration site has discontinued accepting new registrations and renewals; no one can register until the problems are resolved. The backup system did not work quite as intended Swimmers wishing to register can send Nancy Ridout a paper form but she have to wait to enter the data until the problems are resolved. But once she has the form and a check she can confirm they're considered officially rergistered even if we cannot issue you a card. JASON LEZAK CLINIC The College of Marin Swimming and Diving Team along with the Marin Pirates Swim Team are pleased to announce that Olympian and multiple gold medal winner Jason Lezak is coming to Marin to conduct a one day swim clinic. The clinic will be held on Sunday, April 5th from noon to 4 p.m. at College of Marin?s Indian Valley Campus pool. Take part in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join Jason for in-water demonstrations; plus, listen to him discuss experiences from his swimming career. In-water space is limited to 160 swimmers. (There are 40 slots left). Sign up on the Pirate website: www.marinpirates.com -------- FINA REQUIREMENTS FOR SWIMWARE FINA the international governing body has released its requirements for swimwear. Today the Rules Committee of US Masters Swimming has issued its official interpretation. FINA approval or rejection of new swimwear introduced after September 30, 2007, will be accepted by U.S. Masters Swimming for U.S.M.S. sanctioned and recognized competition. The swimmer can only wear one swimsuit at a time during an a swim meet. The full US Masters Swimming interpretation can be found at http://www.usms.org/rules/swimsuitnotice090326.pdf There is also questions and answers section of the interpretation. SCAM Spring Break Meet The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break results have been posted. Thanks to the Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters for putting on the meet. PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at: http://wcm.mastersswim.com . PARKSIDE MILE The Parkside Mile has moved to 25 April, same place, but had to change the date. The Parkside Mile meet sheet has been posted. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09smmmow.pdf SPRING LAKE MILE The Spring Lake Mile has been moved to the 16th Of May. It is a week earlier than what has been on the schedule. 2009 USMS ONE-MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The meet sheet for the US Masters Swimming One-Mile National Championships has been posted. You must pre-enter the meet. the meet deadline is 5 May. You are encourated to enter early as the meet is limited to the first 1000 entries. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TEACHING ADULTS TO SWIM Melon Dash wrote an article in Aquatics International about Fear Factor - What you should know about teaching adults to swim. You can read it on line at: http://www.aquaticsintl.com/2009/mar/0903_viewpoint.html US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on April 9, 2009. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ FINA REQUIREMENTS FOR SWIMWARE FINA the international governing body has released its requirements for swimwear. The main points are The swimsuit shall not cover the neck and shall not extend past the shoulders nor past the ankles. All swimsuits of an approved model must be constructed in an identical fashion with no variation/modification for individual swimmers. The swimmer can only wear one swimsuit More information may be found at http://www.fina.org/project/images/help/the%20dubai%20charter.pdf APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. SWIMFEST 09 US MASTERS SWIMMING will be sponsoring SwimFest 09 for coaches and swimmers at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, TX (near Houston). For coaches it will be a chance to work with some of the greatest coaches in Masters Swimming: Kerry O'Brien, Kris Houchesn, Mike Collins and Jim Montogmery. They will work with coaches on their coaching technique and mentor The Masters coaches ill cover the business of being a Masters Coach and other topics. Swimmers will be able to improve their swimming and work on all four strokes, starts and turns under the guidance of great coaches. U.S. Masters Swimming will be awarding a limited number of coach scholarships. If you are a Masters coach and need financial assistance to attend, please contact Mel Goldstein, Director of Club & Coach Services via email or by phone at 317-253-8289. Coaches are free Swimmers are $85. More info at http://www.usms.org/swimfest/ TO REPLY OR COMMENT Or Remove To reply or comment about anything in this email, please write to mailto:update06 at pacificmasters.org DO NOT use the above address to remove your address If you hit the reply key on your computer, your email may or may not be seen in a timely manner. Use only the update06 address please. If you are wishing to get off the list, mail to mailto:pacmasterupdate at six.pairlist.net, then put Remove in the subject line. michael -- michael w. moore michael at pacificmasters.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org Mon Mar 30 23:36:04 2009 From: pacmasterupdate at PacificMasters.org (Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:36:04 -0700 Subject: [PacMasterUpdate] The Update 30 March 2009 Message-ID: PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT: As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is: Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster this mission. CHANGES IN OPEN WATER AND LONG DISTANCE SCHEDULE - SEE BELOW ONLINE REGISTRATION BACK ON LINE The Club Assistant registration site is now back to accepting registrations. Please register on line JASON LEZAK CLINIC THIS SUNDAY The College of Marin Swimming and Diving Team along with the Marin Pirates Swim Team are pleased to announce that Olympian and multiple gold medal winner Jason Lezak is coming to Marin to conduct a one day swim clinic. The clinic will be held on Sunday, April 5th from noon to 4 p.m. at College of Marin?s Indian Valley Campus pool. Take part in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join Jason for in-water demonstrations; plus, listen to him discuss experiences from his swimming career. In-water space is limited to 160 swimmers. (There are 40 slots left). Sign up on the Pirate website: www.marinpirates.com -------- PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at: http://wcm.mastersswim.com PARKSIDE MILE The Parkside Mile has moved to 25 April, same place, but had to change the date. The Parkside Mile meet sheet has been posted. http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09smmmow.pdf SPRING LAKE MILE The Spring Lake Mile has been moved to the 16th Of May. It is a week earlier than what has been on the schedule. 2009 USMS ONE-MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The meet sheet for the US Masters Swimming One-Mile National Championships has been posted. You must pre-enter the meet. the meet deadline is 5 May. You are encouraged to enter early as the meet is limited to the first 1000 entries. If you enter by 15 April it will cost you $10.00 less to enter. US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on April 9, 2009. http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS An application to officiate at the US Masters Championships is at http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph An application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position (deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3 certification. SWIMFEST 09 US MASTERS SWIMMING will be sponsoring SwimFest 09 for coaches and swimmers at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, TX (near Houston). For coaches it will be a chance to work with some of the greatest coaches in Masters Swimming: Kerry O'Brien, Kris Houchesn, Mike Collins and Jim Montogmery. They will work with coaches on their coaching technique and mentor The Masters coaches ill cover the business of being a Masters Coach and other topics. Swimmers will be able to improve their swimming and work on all four strokes, starts and turns under the guidance of great coaches. U.S. Masters Swimming will be awarding a limited number of coach scholarships. If you are a Masters coach and need financial assistance to attend, please contact Mel Goldstein, Director of Club & Coach Services via email or by phone at 317-253-8289. Coaches are free Swimmers are $85. 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