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 $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
Annual Meeting
18 November, 2009

Pacific Masters 2009 Annual meeting will be Wednesday November 18th 2009 at the Heather Farms meeting room. This is the annual pot luck dinner. All Pacific Master Swimmers are encourage to attend.

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.

Its a new year -
individual registration

November 1 starts the registration year for Pacific Masters. Everyones's registration expires at the end of the year. You can start registering for 2010 now.

Next year Pacific Masters will have many short course yards, long course meters and short course meters events. We will also have many open water events for swimmers to compete in.

As a registered Masters swimmer you will also receive US Masters Swimmer, be covered by secondary insurance when working out at a club practice and be able to compete in swim meets where your time is recongnized around the world.

Its a new year
club registration

The registration year for US Masters Swimming has begun. All clubs must register for 2010. Swimmer registration starts November 1, and a swimmer cannot register to a club unless that club is registered.

Clubs can register on line. If you do not want to register on line, you can fill out the 2010 registration form and sent it to our registrar, Nancy Ridout.

November - December
Newsletter On-Line

The Pacific Masters September-October Newsletter is on-line. Meet sheets for the first two months of theyear are in the newsletter

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

Pacific Masters
Annual Meeting
18 November, 2009

Pacific Masters 2009 Annual meeting will be Wednesday November 18th 2009 at the Heather Farms meeting room. This is the annual pot luck dinner. All Pacific Master Swimmers are encourage to attend.

This annual meeting will include the election of officers for a two year term, changes in the bylaws and changes in Pacific Masters policies.

Pacific Masters SCM
Championships

The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Championships were held at Clark Swim Center, Heather Farms, Walnut Creek.

Since FINA has a new record category for relays events that are greater than 200 meters, all the 400 and 800 meter relays winners have been submitted to FINA for World record recognition.

Open Water
Points Competition

The latest unofficial tally of the open water points competition have been posted. Threre were 1527 swimmers who competed in all of the totaled open water events.Of those 1,014 earned points. Finals will be available soon. If you seen an error, please report it.

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.

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