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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>UPCOMING
MEETS</b></font></div>
<div>Pacific Master Long Course Championships will be at Santa Cruz,
July 7,8 9 at the University of California Santa Cruz. This will be a
great time to practice for the World Championships.</div>
<div>The postmark deadline for entering is 24 June, this Saturday.
Online entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM Wednesday 28 June, 2006
.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OPEN WATER
CHAMPIONSHIPS</b></font></div>
<div>The Pacific Masters Open Water Championships have been moved from
Lake Sonoma to a one mile course at the Russian River near Healdsburg.
The race will take place from Memorial Beach in Healdsburg on
Saturday, July 15th, 2006. You can register online</div>
<div>You can also register on the day of the meet.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>MONTHLY MEETING 21 JUNE,
2005</b></font></div>
<div>Pacific Masters regular meeting will be the 21st of June at the
Heather Farms, Walnut Creek, California. the meeting start at 7:30.
All Pacific Masters swimmers are invited to attend.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>WORLDS</b></font></div>
<div>We are still working on totalling up the entries, so far
there are 7,100 entries from over 75 countries. Over 5400 athletes
will be competing in swimming and 900 swimming will be competing in
open water. There are 75 water polo teams with 14 women's water polo
teams (at Riccione, there were only 2 women's teams). Of the 5400
athletes in swimming, 1400 are from Pacific Masters.</div>
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<div>Worlds will be the largest swim meet held in the United States.
It is also the largest Master's meet held in the United States.
Stanford will keep the record as the place of the largest meet as it
will be superseding the 1987 USMS Short Course Championships
where 2328 swimmers competed.</div>
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<div><b>OPENING CEREMONIES</b></div>
<div>The opening ceremonies will start at 7 PM on 3 August. This will
be the formal start of the XI FINA World Masters Championships. The
ceremonies will be at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center and will last
about 90 minutes.</div>
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<div><b>HOTELS</b></div>
<div>For those who will be traveling to World championships there are
still a wide variety of hotels available. There are a couple of teams
that will rent a hotel room as so that their team members can rest
there instead of at the pool venue.</div>
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<div>The LOC was able to secure good pricing from many hotels in the
are San Mateo, Santa Clara and Palo Alto areas. We have to sell the
rooms soon, or we have to give the hotel rooms back to the hotels. Go
to<x-tab> </x-tab></div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab>http://www.2006finamasters.org/</div>
<div>on the right side column click on Hotel Reservations.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>If you want to phone your reservation, please call<br>
1-800-826-4630 US or<br>
01-310-590-4721
International</div>
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<div><b>PARKING</b></div>
<div>Parking will be available at Stanford, but it will be about a 250
yard walk from the parking lot to the swim center. There is no
overnight parking .</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>RESULTS</b></font></div>
<div>I have been busy and have not put up the results of the different
competitions in a timely manner. I got caught up this weekend. Results
that have been posted to the web include:</div>
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<div><x-tab> </x-tab>The
Tamalpias Postal Mile</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>The
Spring Lake Open Water Swim</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>the
Lake Berryessa one and two miles swims</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>The
Lake Del Valle Swim</div>
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<div>Thanks to all the volunteers who worked on the open water swims
to make them a success.</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab>http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/results.shtml</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>JULY AUGUST
NEWSLETTER</b></font></div>
<div>The Pacific Masters July August Newsletter has been posted on the
web site. There is a list of all the age group swimmers of the year,
the upcoming meets and other interesting items for Pacific Masters
members. Thank you to Joanne Berven for putting editing and writing
the newsletter.</div>
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<div>Pacific Masters affiliate</div>
<div>Lands End<br>
<br>
Pacific Masters entered into a new affiliate relationship with Lands'
End Apparel . Lands' End is a maker of fine sports apparel for the
active person.<br>
<br>
If you click on the link to Lands' End from the Pacific Masters web
site (like the link above or the link in the navigation bar) Lands'
End will receive a rebate from your purchase<br>
</div>
<div>The Pacific Masters Logo'ed shirts that meet officials wear are
from Lands End.</div>
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Have a good week</div>
<div>michael</div>
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<div>michael w. moore<br>
michael@mwmoore.org</div>
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