[PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update June 18, 2006

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UPCOMING MEETS
Pacific Master Long Course Championships will be at Santa Cruz, July 
7,8 9 at the University of California Santa Cruz. This will be a 
great time to practice for the World Championships.
The postmark deadline for entering is 24 June, this Saturday. Online 
entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM Wednesday 28 June, 2006 .

OPEN WATER CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Pacific Masters Open Water Championships have been moved from 
Lake Sonoma to a one mile course at the Russian River near 
Healdsburg. The race will take place from Memorial Beach in 
Healdsburg on Saturday, July 15th, 2006. You can register online
You can also register on the day of the meet.

MONTHLY MEETING 21 JUNE, 2005
Pacific Masters regular meeting will be the 21st of June at the 
Heather Farms, Walnut Creek, California. the meeting start at 7:30. 
All Pacific Masters swimmers are invited to attend.


WORLDS
We are still working on totalling up the entries,  so far there are 
7,100 entries from over 75 countries. Over 5400 athletes will be 
competing in swimming and 900 swimming will be competing in open 
water. There are 75 water polo teams with 14 women's water polo teams 
(at Riccione, there were only 2 women's teams). Of the 5400 athletes 
in swimming, 1400 are from Pacific Masters.

Worlds will be the largest swim meet held in the United States. It is 
also the largest Master's meet held in the United States. Stanford 
will keep the record as the place of the largest meet as it will be 
superseding  the 1987 USMS Short Course Championships where 2328 
swimmers competed.

OPENING CEREMONIES
The opening ceremonies will start at 7 PM on 3 August. This will be 
the formal start of the XI FINA World Masters Championships. The 
ceremonies will be at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center and will last 
about 90 minutes.

HOTELS
For those who will be traveling to World championships there are 
still a wide variety of hotels available. There are a couple of teams 
that will rent a hotel room as so that their team members can rest 
there instead of at the pool venue.

The LOC was able to secure good pricing from many hotels in the are 
San Mateo, Santa Clara and Palo Alto areas. We have to sell the rooms 
soon, or we have to give the hotel rooms back to the hotels. Go to
	http://www.2006finamasters.org/
on the right side column click on Hotel Reservations.

If you want to phone your reservation, please call
         1-800-826-4630 US or
         01-310-590-4721 International

PARKING
Parking will be available at Stanford, but it will be about a 250 
yard walk from the parking lot to the swim center. There is no 
overnight parking .

RESULTS
I have been busy and have not put up the results of the different 
competitions in a timely manner. I got caught up this weekend. 
Results that have been posted to the web include:

	The Tamalpias Postal Mile
	The Spring Lake Open Water Swim
	the Lake Berryessa one and two miles swims
	The Lake Del Valle Swim

Thanks to all the volunteers who worked on the open water swims to 
make them a success.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/results.shtml



JULY AUGUST NEWSLETTER
The Pacific Masters July August Newsletter has been posted on the web 
site. There is a list of all the age group swimmers of the year, the 
upcoming meets and other interesting items for Pacific Masters 
members. Thank you to Joanne Berven for putting editing and writing 
the newsletter.

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 receive a rebate from your purchase

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

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Have a good week
michael
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michael w. moore
michael at mwmoore.org