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Welcome to
Pacific Masters

Pacific Masters Swimming is a regional organization that provides organized workouts, competitions, clinics and workshops for adults 18 and over. Programs are open to all adult swimmers fitness, triathlete, competitive, non-competitive) who are dedicated to improving their fitness through swimming.

Pacific is organized with over 100 clubs in Northern California and Nevada. Membership numbers over 10,000, with individual members ranging in age from 18 to over 95.

Within the clubs, structured workouts, often with a coach, offer well-thought-out training assistance, Pool and open-water races provide opportunities to compete and measure individual progress at the local, state, national and international levels, USMS programs also offer stroke and technique clinics, workshops and instructions, as well as social functions.

All Pacific Masters programs are designed to help swimmers improve fitness and/or train for specific goals, and offer active support for a healthy lifestyle through friendship, and camaraderie.

So dive right in to Pacific Masters Swimming, where adults of all ages enjoy aquatic fitness at any level, beginner to competitive. Thanks for stopping by. Over 110 clubs, over 10,000 Swimmers in Pacific LMSC, over 42,000 in United States Masters Swimming nationally. Find out more about Masters Swimming or download the Pacific Masters brochure. (Adobe Acrobat Required).

Most Masters enjoy swimming with their teams during practice. Of the 9000 swimmers inPacific Masters, only about 1,900 competed in a meet in 2001.

UPDATE Archives

The Update is Pacific Masters weekly (well most weeks) informational newsletter that is sent by email to members. For those who cannot get the email sent to them you can go to the archives which is at http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pacmasterupdate/ .

There are archives stored from second quarter 2001.

Traveling Swimmers

For swimmers who are traveling to Northern California and Nevada, check the Places to Swim page for information about workout times. (Take your Masters Card - it is needed so that swimmers are covered under the USMS insurance program.)
For swimmers who are unable to practice with a team, there is the Workout links page

Changed your address or your team

If you have moved, and wish to change your address so you can receive your copy of USMS Swimmer Magazine while it is still current, please fill out the on-line change of address form. This can be done on line.

If you wish to change teams, you must fill out a change of team form. There is a $2.00 change of team charge.

Become a Meet Official

Masters meets are always needs trained officials to judge stroke and turns, to start and to referee at meets. The first step is to attend an officials clinic.

For further information go the officials web page or contact John King , Officials chairman.

Pacific Masters
Monthly Meeting
14 May, 2008

Our May monthly meeting will be 14th of May meeting at Heather Farms, Walnut Creek. Clubs are invited to send a representative all members are invited to participate. If you would like to participate please contact Nancy Ridout at 415 872 0771

The minutes for the all meeting from 2005 are posted, including the November annual meeting. The minutes for the November Annual meeting have been posted.

E-mail List

Pacific Masters Swimming tries to keepin contact with its members. Pac Masters was the first LMSC to have a web site to tell people about Masters Swimming. Pacific has had an E-mail update that goes out to 10,300 members and friends. If you are interested in subscribing go to the subscribe web page or e-mail the subscribe page from the e-mail address you wish the Update sent to.

You can also go to the web page to unsubscribe or e-mail the unsubscribe mail box. (please unsubscribe from the e-mail address to which the Update is sent).

Insurance

The USMS Insurance Program, funded by a portion of the National Registration Fee, provides Excess Accident Insurance coverage for USMS members. Liability coverage is provided for USMS Members, Member Clubs, LMSC officials and volunteers acting on behalf of and with the approval of USMS. More Information is available on the USMS web site.

UPCOMING MEETS
PARKSIDE MILE

San Mateo Marlins Parkside Mile will be held on May 10th, in Parkside Aquatic Park, San Mateo. The postmark deadline is 3 May. More information
is at http://sanmateomarlins.org/openwater.html

SPRING LAKE

The Spring Lake Mile will be at Spring Lake in Santa Rosa on May 17th.

USMS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Pacific Masters Swimmers did very well at the USMS Short Course Yards Championships held in Austin, Texas last weekend. Swimmers who medaled are listed at the end of this email. Congratulation to Laura Val and Roque Santos who both received six gold medals and Robert Strand and Gloria Stupfel who won five gold meals.

2008 Ransom Arthur Winner:
Barry Fasbender

Barry Fasbender of Palo Alto, California, was presented with USMS’s most prestigious award at the USMS Short Course National Championships at the University of Texas, Saturday, May 3rd. This award, which is given in the memory of Ransom J. Arthur, the founder of Masters swimming, is presented annually to the person who has contributed greatly to the development of Masters swimming.

Dean Dillingham, RIP

Dean Dillingham passed away last week at the age of 81 after a courageous battle with cancer. Dean and his wife Jacqui worked at many many Masters meets over many years, including USMS and Pacific Masters championships. Their last meet they worked was the XI FINA World Masters Championships.

A memorial service for Dean will be held Thursday, May 8 at 11am at St John's Lutheran Church, Tregallas Road Antioch.

Pacific Masters
SCY Championships

The results of the 2008 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards have been posted on the web site. At the meet 46 individual national records were broken and 6 national relay records were broken.

Walnut Creek won the large team award beating USF Masters. Mantree, Santa Rosa and TriValley were 1,2,3 in the medium team division and Mudsharks, Modesto and Santa Cruze were 1,2,3 in the small team.

Thanks to Walnut Creek and TriValley Masters for organizing the meet.

On-Line Registration - 2008

USMS has had a great response to the new USMS on-line membership registration system and it is working well. If you have a Visa or MasterCard you can register on line

By registering on line, you can immediatly become a member, you receive your Pacific Master card and number, so you can register for Pacific Masters - after you are registered you can immediatly register for Pacific Masters and US Masters events.

Officials Clinics

Pacific Masters is looking to recruit new officials to help out on deck at our swim meets. We have been very short handed recently, and anyone who can help out would be greatly appreciated. If you're going to a meet, officiating is a fun way to fill in the time between your events!
If you are at all interested in becoming an official, there are some clinics coming up soon:

For more information about becoming an official, check our web page at: http://www.pacificmasters.org/officials/. Training is conducted by Pacific Swimming; more information about clinics and officiating can be found at their web site at http://www.pacswim.org/page/member_officials.html.

PacMasters does well in
FINA 2007 Top Ten

FINA released their 2007 Long Course and Short Course Meters Top ten times for 2007. Pacific Masters swimmers were well represented on the lists with 31 different Pacific Masters Swimmers swimming the fastest time in their event.

Laura Val led Pacific Masters swimmers by having the fastest time in 31 different events.

FINA Masters SCM 2007 Top 10 Times List
FINA Masters LCM 2007 Top 10 Times list
Pacific Masters on the two lists

If you catch any errors, (this was all done by hand), please contact michael at michael at pacificmasters dot org

Where are the clubs?

I have been working on way to show where the Pacific Masters clubs are located. I have used maps.google.com and Google earth to show were the clubs are located. This is a work in progress and not everything is on the map. Many clubs are not on the map, because the address that we have for your club is the coaches home address. I did not want to put that address on the map. There are some clubs that might not want to be on the map, for different reasons. I would appreciate it if members of a club would check out the map to be sure that the pool is in the right place and if you have a website to be sure that I wrote the URL correctly.

Go to
If you have dialup or slow broadband maps.google.com
If you have fast broadband maps.google.com

If that does not work try:
Go to
http://maps.google.com

be sure that "Search the map is highlighted.

In the box between Google Maps and Search maps write:
http://pacificmasters.org/general/PacMasters5.kml
you can cut and paste.

If anyone would like to contribute an icon that is better than the pins, please send it to me. If your club is not listed and it should be, send me the information. If someone want to have an icon for open water swims or for pool swims, create it and we can set that up. Send the information to:
chairman at pacificmasters dot org.

Pacific Masters affiliate
Lands End

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.

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 rebate 5% of your purchase to Pacific Masters.

The Pacific Masters Logo 'ed shirts that meet officials wear are from Lands End.