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 52,000 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 10,000 swimmers in Pacific 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 $5.00 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
20 January 2010

Pacific Masters first meeting will be Wednesday January 20, 2010at the Heather Farms meeting room. All Pacific Master Swimmers are encourage to attend.

Minutes from the January to October 2009 minutes have been posted. Minutes from the annual meeting will be posted when approved by the Pac Masters Committee at the January meeting.

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.

USF Results Posted

The results of the USF Valentines Day Affair have been posted. There were over 340 swimmers who competed in this annual meet.

Results are without splits and with splits. Thanks to Duke Dahlin, Matt Chappel, Cathy Huang and the USF Swim team for organizing the meet.

FOG City Quadrathon
Results

The results of the Fog CityQuadrathon are now posted. Congratulations to Andy Grant, who broke the 500 Free record (M18-24) and tied the 50 Free (M18-24). Results and Splits.

Thanks to Diane Davis, Adam Jenning, Matt Roberto and the Fog City Masters for organizing the meet.

2009 SCM Top Ten
Available

The preliminary 2009 Short Course Meters Top Ten results are available for both individual and relay events. Please review the results and if there are any corrections that need to be made, please contact Nancy Ridiout at registrar@pacificmasters.org

USMS Swimmer VERY VERY Late - Pacific Masters Newsletter
Heat Sheet Posted

The USMS Swimmer was just mail this week, making it very very late. The Pacific Masters Newsletter is always a middle insert in Swimmer. The newsletter has information about the upcoming PacMasters swim meets and calendar.

USMS is very sorry about the late delivery and is making changes so it will not happen again.

TOC 1500
Results Posted

The results of The Olympic Club 1500 have been posted. World records were broken by Alison Zamanian (w 40-44), Jim Clemmons (m 60-64) and Laura Val (w 55-59).

Thanks to Paul Carter, Laureen Weltin and theOlympic Club for organized the meet.

New Year Registration

If you have not registered yet, you can registered on-line. All Pacific Masters memberships expired on Thursday 31 December 2009. We hope you continue to swim, as we are "Swimming for Life."

For clubs to be covered by USMasters Swimming Secondary insurance, all swimmers must be currently registered. You can still register using a paper registration.

2010 Registered Clubs

Thanks to the almost 100 Pacific Masters Clubs that have re-registered for 2010. Ninety four of the one hundred twenty-eight 2009 clubs have registered for the new year.

Over 2300 Pacific Masters swimmers have registered for the upcoming year. If your club has not registered yet, please contact Nancy Ridout our registrar (415 872-0771).

Jon Steiner Postal Mile

Tamalpias Aquatic Masters is again organizing the Jon Steiner Postal Mile. You can swim the mile in your25 yard pool anytime between now and 28 February.

Jon Steiner was the originator of the TAM Mile; he worked very hard for Pacific Masters as its Rules and Legislation chair; he also greatly helped with the XI FINA World Masters Championships in reviewing the contracts and agreements.

FOG CITY QUADRATHON

The Fog City Quadrathon will be Sunday 24 January at the Herbst Natatorium, St Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco. This meet will feature the 500 Fr, 200 Fr, 100 Fr and the 50 Fr. The pre entry deadline is 20 January 2010.

TAM Masters
One Hour Postal Swim

The 2010 US Masters Swimming One Hours Postal Swim will beorganized by Tamalpias Aquatic Masters. This is a great time to see what aerobic condition you are after the Christmas holidays.

You just swim as far as you can in one hour (you need someone to time you), send in your results and see how you did against other throughout the United States in your age group.

January-February
Newsletter On-Line

The Pacific Masters January February Newsletter is on-line. Meet sheets for the first part of the year are in the newsletter

Thanks to Joanne Berven and her group of writiers who put together and edits the newsletter.

FACEBOOK

Carolyn Lambert has started a FACEBOOK Page for members of the Pacific Masters Swimming Community. You can join Facebook, then you can search for Pacific Masters to join the Pacific Masters network.

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.

Check out the
Swimming World
website!