7:40 Call to Order
Attendance Joel Wilson, CRUZ; M. Collins, A. McPherson DAM; McPhail, DNZA; Boak, LAM; Stack, A. Levinson, MAM; D. Benjamin, M. Benjamin MSC; Chambers, Paque MVM; J. Smith, R. Smith, SAC; Talbot, SANR; Upshaw, SCAM; J. Heller SCSC; Fasbender, STAN; C. Winn, Ridout, Schwab TAM; Huestis, TOC; Moore, USF; Rogers, Hirsch WCM.
7:45 Approval of Minutes of 2/28/96
Under Meet Operation the meet at West Coast Aquatics will be on Sunday May 5 not on Saturday. Richard Smith pointed out that Pacific Masters Swimming has a contract with Nancy Ridout and she is an independent contractor not an employee of Pacific Masters Swimming. Brian Stack said that he will listed as being in attendance at the February Meeting and he was not.
Motion to approve minutes as amended. MSP
7:48 Report of the Treasurer- Richard Smith
Passed out his February report. Pacific Masters Swimming now has three certificates of deposits.Motion to accept financial report. MSP
7:45 Chairman: Christine Winn
Received notice from national office that Pacific will be able to send 14 delegates to the 1996 USMS National Convention, besides the automatic delegates.Betsy Durrant sent a survey regarding a National Executive Director of USMS.
Last month, the committee discussed the PMS Logo Policy: The policy is basically that this committee must approve use of logo. Chris Winn and Nancy Ridout will work on getting it copyrighted
The chairman has received one ñCoach of the Yearî nomination.
GTO Revisions: she has two of them in- David Benjamin will be working finishing up his section on them.
Nancy Ridout received a call from Oregon Masters and Oregon wanted to know if they could reproduce our Open Water Handbook. It was decided that they could if credit was given to Pacific Masters Swimming.
Pacific Masters still needs an Officials Chair. She would like to put an announcement in minutes and on the Web Page.
7:50 Vice Chairman Joan Smith NR
7:53 Vice Chairman Levinson NR
7:50 Secretary Moore NR
7:51 At-Large Huestis
Doug Huestis went to the Olympic Trials, our PMS swimmer from Davis John Beckworth went out a little too fast in the first 50 of the 200 fr. He made the consolation round. Robert Peal made 6th in his event.Shiela Tormaina a Masters swimmer made the Olympic team.
7:53 Zone Chairman Paque
Discussion about Julie having two automatic delegate spots for the National Convention.
7:57 Registration/Records Nancy Ridout
Nancy said that she had a good response from Swim Magazine after it was discover that there was insert problem in the magazines sent to Pacific Masters Swimming members. Within a week and a half after discovering that the PMS insert was not sent in the magazine, Swim Magazine sent out the PMS insert first class to all PMS members. They are to be commended on how fast they responded .The past week has brought a flood of mail. PMS as registered over 5000 swimmers as of last Friday. Pacific Masters now has 100 clubs registered
The Swimmer of the Year has be decided tonight. It was decided to vote on it after the legislation committee report.
Q. M Collins: Do we have a list of previous winners of the award. A. Chris Winn has a copy and she will pass it around.
8:04 Coaches- Shaw NR
8:04 Health and Safety Paque : 8:05 Fitness Brian Stack
There is a national clinic on April 28. The coach can attend free if they bring 3 members to team to attend the clinic. This should be high light ed on web page.Safety Sign to go to nationals-
Thank to Bill Stuert the safety signs now have nice boxes to store them in
8:10 Hospitality s
I hope signs are in Berkeley for the SCAM meet- Bill Steurt bought batteries for the watches .Hospitality was complimented on the snack available for attendees of the meeting.
8:12 Legislation/Rules Carolyn Boak
She received only three ideas for possible rule changes at convention. One was from David Levenson- which discussed thoroughly at the last meeting and voted down.There are no rule about event limit. The rules say that a swimmer can swim up to five individual events plus relays a day. The matter was discussed and will be reviewed at the April Meeting.
Discussion on the rules regarding bidding and scheduling of National Championships. Carolyn Boak will write up a rule proposal to be presented at the April Meeting.
Discussion of seeding of heats in National Championships where there is more than one age group in a heat. Carolyn Boak will present a rule proposal at the next meeting.
Discussion of who is responsible for submitting records to FINA for world records. Walt Reed does much of the work now.
Discussion of the false start rule for international events. Decided to have rule proposal that all false starts will be recalled. Carolyn Boak will write a rule proposal.
Discussion of rule proposal that the first swimmer cannot submit a time for a record, or top ten listing, if the second swimmer starts in the water Carolyn Boak will write up a proposal.
Discussion of the Mandatory command ñPlace your Feetî in the backstroke. It will be discussed at the next meeting.
Discussion of the fact that a backstroke start is a legal forward start under USMS rules.
Need people for Thursday all day and Friday early morning shift at the Short Course Nationals. Mainly need timers but also need runners and deck marshals - there is a free t shirt for volunteers.
Nominations for Swimmer of the Year
There was a discussion about who should be Male and Female swimmer of the year. A vote was taken and Brad Winsor and Gail Roper were voted Swimmer of the Year.
8:38 Marketing Jim Wheeler NR
8:38 Meet Operation Barry Fasbender
Electronic Registration: Make everyone aware it has a different deadline Paper deadline is Thursday. Electronic registration deadline is Sunday.Q. How do swimmers who register by electronic mail pay? A. They will have to pay and send copy of their membership card by April 5th.
Motion to use PMS logo on the Stanford Short Course Championship. web site MSP
Q: Are the long events going to be swum men and women together. A. Probably not. It would slow down getting the results out. All of the information would have to be entered by hand.
Q How to decide team categories for large-small etc. A. Should be done with numbers, without any knowledge of the teams involved.
There was a small meet last weekend at El Dorado Hills. Barry was surprised at how well the meet went.
Q. Is El Dorado a team, As they did not have 4 members A. Nancy Ridout called El Dorado Hills, the coach says they have 20 people who swim there; problem is if something happens USMS insurance may not be in effect.
We need a Meet evaluator PMS Championship and the San Ramon Spring Fling- Christine Winn will evaluate San Ramon. Nancy Ridout will evaluate PMS Championships. with Alan Levenson. Carolyn Boak is the evaluator of the Santa Clara Meet
Carolyn Boak pointed out that the mailing address for nationals is to an address in Atherton
8:52 Newsletter Mo Chambers
Newsletter deadline is the Middle of May. She spent all day today working on newsletter
8:53 Officiating Michael Moore NR
8:53 Open Water David Benjamin
Santa Cruz want to have the Santa Cruz an entry fee of $50.00- . Typically they break even or lose money.Motion to require an ambulance at the Santa Clara.
Question do we need an ambulance? Each swimmer is accompanied by paddlers There is partly a hypothermic risk there is also wildlife risk. There is between 5 and 8 motorized boats. There has been no problem on how the course is monitored.
Motion to allow $50 at Santa Cruz 5 mile swim. MSP
The Ambulance issue tabled till next meeting
9:07 Scheduling Marcia Benjamin NR
9:22 Ad Hoc WWW Michael Moore
There was discussion of WEB policies. Motion to add the web masters shall obtain the events from the meet operation manager or editor of the newsletter to the WEB policies. MSPJulie: please put up the number of PMS swimmers and clubs on the web site. Anyone have information on the Alcatraz swim- sent to Nancy
Home page has been hit over 2200 times. PMS has been mention many times on other web sites.
Rules years. Any ideas for rules changes Email to M Moore
9:22 Ad Hoc 1997 Hour Swim Nancy Ridout
9:24 Ad Hoc 1997 USMS Convention Paque
Julie Paque plans to meet with people interested in helping with the 97 USAS convention at the Short Course Championships. People have been checking out the pools to see what is available for the convention. Julie would like to set up sub-committees. She would like to talk to people who are interested in participating.
Old Business
9:25 Clubs in Good Standing Winn
A club in good standing has 4 active members- A club in good standing gets a representative who is able to vote at the PMS Committee meeting.
New Business
9:26 Questions regarding Nationals at De Anza
q. regarding teams at nationals- sectioning off - canapÚs . A, You can leave your belonging at Deanza. There is 24 hr security.Will there be a pa system that will be heard outside the pool area. Yes.
There was a discussion of where tents and canapÚs will be able to be located There will be a fact sheet available at the PMS Championships. There was a discussion of shuttle availability.
9:40 Team Announcements
Judy Heller talked about the Santa Clara Long Course Meet and the need for support from the swimmers of Pacific MastersGeorge Farnsworth passed away. He was 79 years old.
9:44 Adjournment