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Most Masters don't compete
Welcome to
Pacific Masters
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 100 clubs, over 8,700
Swimmers in Pacific LMSC, over 37,000 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 8,700 swimmers in Pacific Masters, only about 2,000 competed
in a meet in 1998.
Preferred Vendors
Pacific Masters has six preferred vendors
this year. All of these vendors have promised to give a discount
to Pacific Masters swimmers (with proof of membership). Please support
the following vendors:
Become a Meet Official
Masters meets are always need trained officials to judge
stroke and turns, to start and to referee at meets. The first step
is to attend an officials clinic.
April 29th at 7:30a.m.
Sonora High School
Put on by Sierra Nevada
contact Ed Clinite
May 4 (Thursday Night) for certified Officials
Truckee High School, Truckee
Put on by Sierra Nevada
Contact Bruce Ajari
May 6 - 12-4
Clinic for New Officials
Truckee High School, Truckee
Put on by Sierra Nevada
Contact Bruce Ajari
For further information go the officials
web page or contact
Joan Smith, Officials chairman.
Mills College
Women's Water Polo
Masters Water Polo program for women at Mills College (Oakland)
Monday Evenings from 7:30-9:00 pm. ALL levels of play welcome.
Membership in US Water Polo required--$35 per year or one time,
four month trial membership at $15. $3/time equipment fee is also
charged.
Excellent coaching--many national level players there to instruct
and demonstrate. LOTS OF FUN!!. Contact Carol
Berendsen
Unique
Swim Club
Most people who read this page are Masters Swimmers, many of whom
have been swimming for many many years, people for whom the water
does not engender fear. The Transpersonal
Swimming Institute, a Pacific Masters Swim Club, works with
adults who are scared of the water and want to learn to swim.
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
Consolidated Entry Form
A new consolidated entry form
is now on line. It is in the html format (pdf coming soon). With
this form, a competitor may enter all the information in the computer,
then print it out. For those who have illegible handwriting, it
will save the clerk of the course a lot of guesswork and time.
Meet Directors Handbook
Meet Operations Chairman Barry Fasbender has updated
the Meet Directors Handbook. If you are running a pool meet, you
are urged to review the Meet Director's
Handbook.
The handbook covers much of what is needed to run
a successful pool meet. For novice meet directors, reading the handbook
is almost mandatory.
Sunnyvale
Fremont Pool
A group is trying to generate
interest in a new 50 meter pool
in Sunnyvale. The proposed pool will be on the Fremont High
School campus.
The Sunnyvale city council will be considering the
pool May 2nd. If you live or work in Sunnyvale, you should contact
your friends and your city council member to let your views known.
For further information about the pool, go
to www.fremontpool.org
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Up-coming events
Seaside
Masters is having an open invitational meet, May 5 and 6. Distance
events will be emphasized. Note that there are changes from the
meet sheet published in the Pacific Masters Newsletter.
TCAM is sponsoring a clinic in
Sonora. May 20 in Sonora. The clinic will include demonstration,
stroke instruction, some individual instruction. Contact
Mike Arnold (209) 532-7271
USMS Short Course Championships
The 2000 USMS Short Course Yards Championships (the
last or first championships of the millenium- depending on your
viewpoint) are being contested in Indianapolis April 27 through
April 30. Results will be posted on the USMS
web site as they become available.
Best of luck to all contestants.
Coach of the Year
Nominations for the 2000 Coach of the Year award are
due May 24. The coach of the year is selected on the basis of inspirational
and instructional qualities; club and individual accomplishments
including championships and world records; and noncompetitive club
and individual accomplishments including club size and growth; club
participation, volunteering, and events run by the club; and the
coach³s service to PMS, USMS, and other masters organizations, participation
in clinics and published works.
Information about nominations for the Coach of the
Year is in the March/April newsletter. Nominations may be sent to
Julie Paque or brought to the May Pacific Masters Meeting. Last
years winner was Tina Talbot.
Short Course Championships
The
Pacific Masters Swimming 2000 Short Course Yards Championships
are being held April 7-9, 2000 on hillside campus of the University
of California - Santa Cruz. All results are available including
team and individual high point.
There were two spectacular swims
at championships. On the first day Laura Val became the first woman
in the 45+ to swim a 200 in under two minutes. In the final event,
the 400 Medley Relay, Laura Val, Susan Roy-Jones, Danielle Ogier
and Nancy Ridout took 26 seconds off
the old record in the womens 45+ age group- Truly an awesome relay.
May-June Newsletter
The May June Newsletter
is now on-line in Adobe Acrobat format. It includes a list of the
Age Group Swimmers of the year. Jill Hernandez and Tod Spieker were
names swimmers of the Year. At the Pac Masters Short CourseCampionships
The 1999 Service Award Winners were announce: Appreciation Awards
to Roswita Norris and Elfriede Rogers; Contributor of the Year Award:
Jim Wheeler and the Distinguished Service Award to Michael Moore.
Records on line
The Short Course
Yard, Long Course Meter and Short Course Meters records are
available on line. The SCY and LCM records include both Pacific
and National records by event and age group. The SCM records are
National Records only.
Los Altos Masters
Covington Pool
Covington Pool, the home pool
for Los Altos Masters and the Covington Youth Swim Team, is slated
for demolition in September 2000. The school is located on the campus
of a closed school, which the School District plans to reopen --
without a pool -- in September 2001. SPLASH, a group of Los Altos
swimming enthusiasts (Swimmers Promoting Los Altos Safety and Health),
has extended an offer to the City of Los Altos to raise funds for
a new pool if the City will allocate land.
The City is close to identifying
a pool site and SPLASH is now kicking off fund raising efforts.
If you are one of the thousands of Peninsula swimmers who learned
to swim at venerable Covington Pool and wish to make a donation
for its replacement or if you'd like to assist in the community
awareness campaign, please contact SPLASH
by email.
Pacific Masters Web Site
Selected among "Webs best sites" by Britannica.com
Britannica.com
editors have selected the Pacific Masters web site as one of the
best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content,
presentation and usability.
"I was a little skeptical
when I received the e-mail" said webmaster Michael Moore, "so
I went to their web site to look up 'swimming.' All of the sites
listed were well known quality sites and Pacific was on the same
page as USA Swimming
and the USOC."
"When I was growing up the
Encyclopedia Britannica was known as a great place for starting
to work on term papers. It was really felt good to chosen to be
a distinguished site by their editors. I was really jazzed."
Pacific Masters
Monthly Meeting May 24, 2000
The next monthly meeting of the new year will
be May 24, at 7:30 PM It will be at the San Ramon Olympic Pool site.
The minutes
for the March meeting are posted.
San Ramon Olympic Pool
Meetings. 2000 Schedule
The working calendar includes Coach of the Year, proposed rule
changes recommendations; Elect and register USMS Convention delegates.
deadline for PMS newsletter insert.
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