Fun Fitness Fellowship
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 56,000 in United States Masters
Swimming nationally. Find out more about
Masters Swimming.
Meetings
Minutes
Pacific Masters Commitee meets 11 times a year (Every month except December). The Committee has a face to face meeting in odd number months and a conference call meeting in even number months.
The next meeting will be a 15 February 2012, conference call. . Every club is asked to have a representative and all members are invited to attend.
Please call our registrar, Nancy Ridout if you wish to participate - 415 892 0771.
The minutes of the November annual meeting have been posted.
Minutes are available on line.
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.)
Changed your contact information 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 $3.00 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.
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.
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Fog City Quadrathon
The results of the Fog City Quadrathon have been posted. Laura Val, in her first short course yards meet after aging up, swam four events and broke four national records in her new age group- 60-64 (50 FR 27.19 (old 27.27) ; 100 Fr 58.06 (old 59.41) ; 200 Fr 2:07.35 (old 2:13.65)and 500 Fr 5:43.91 (old 5:57.32).
Thanks to Diane Davis, Matt Roberto and the Fog City Masters for organizing the event.
TOC 1500
The results of The Olympic Club 1500 have been posted on the web site. Thanks to Paul Carter, Laureen Welting and the Olympic Club for organizing the first event of the new year.
USF Valentines Day Meet
The 21st Annual University of San Francisco Valentine's Day meet will be 11 February. There are a couple of important changes this year. The first is that is no deck registration, although you can preenter until 11:59 PM the night before the meet. The next is that this meet is only 50s and 100s (of each stroke). Men and women will be seeded together.
Walnut Creek
Intensive Training Camp
The 25th Annual Walnnut Creek Masters Intensive TrainingCamp will be 2-4 March. The staff will include Kerry O'Brien, Mike Heaney, Debbie and Roque Santos, Steve Stahl, Lisa Ward, Brian Stack, and Cokie Lepinski.
The ITC is not the place to begin your training, but to continue it at perhaps a higher level. The ITC has always been very popular and has sold out. Early registration is recommended to avoid disappointment.
Its a new registration year
It's time to renew your membership for 2012. You can do it right now by using one of two options - online or mailed with a check.
To register for 2012 online, you'll need to use a credit card (Visa or MasterCard). You can also register with a check by completing the attached form and mailing it in.
New Social Media for PacMasters
Pacific Masters has added a new social media group. Linked in is a way for Pacific Master Swimmers to contact and network with each other. You must be a member of Pacific Masters to join the Pacific Masters group. Linked in has been added to the Pacific Masters Facebook page and the Twitter tweets.
US Masters Swimming also has a Linked in group. Again your must be a member of US Masters Swimming to join that group.
PacMasters Calendar
The PacMasters Calendar is now in a calendar format (Monday to Sunday). It has the meet deadlines as well as the dates of the meets themselves. Thanks to Caroline Lamber who created the calendar.
OPENWATERPacific.org
A new page devoted just to open water swimming is now up. OpenWaterPacific.org is just about open water swimming and Pacific Masters open water swims.
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.
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
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