[PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update 1 April 2007

[Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.]

PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS- Mail Entries 2 April
The 2007 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be 
held 20--22 April 2007 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in 
Pleasanton, California. You may enter on line at
	http://wcm.mastersswim.com
Or you can enter on line. the postmark deadline is 2 April 2007.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/07wcmtriscy.pdf

The Dolores Bengstron pool is very fast pool. Ribbons will be 
presented to first through eighth place.

New England Masters has 829 swimmers register for the New England 
Championships. It would be fun to have at least 830 swimmers compete 
at the Pac Masters Championships.

USMS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2007 USMS Short Course Yards Championships will be held at the 
Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, Federal Way, Washington 
17-20 May 2007. Information is now on line at
	http://www.usms.org/comp/nationals.php
You can also register on line now. The on-lineregistration deadline 
is 12 April 2007.

PACIFIC COMBINED INTO ONE TEAM
Pacific Masters announces the a new model for teams in Pacific. After 
a lot of work put in by the Team Committee, The Pacific LMSC will go 
to the New England team model. In the model, there is one team for 
competing at National and worlds, but for local events, the teams 
will compete as workout groups. Except for teams trying to break a 
record (see below).

COACHES MEETING /  TEAM LEADERSHIP MEETING
There will be a coaches meeting / Team leadership meeting on May 5th. 
Tom Boyd, and Jim Wheeler are the featured speakers. Tom Boyd did a 
survey of Masters swimmers last year. He will be discussion the 
results and what it means for coaches. Jim Wheeler will be speaking 
on getting along with the pool management.

BAY AREA UNDERWATER HOCKEY
  Bay Area Underwater Hockey team will be hosting a beginners 
day/clinic Sunday, April 22nd at San Jose State Masters swimmers are 
invited to attend
	http://www.clubpuck.us

BY THE NUMBERS
Pacific Masters is now  6,370 swimmers for the year. If you have not 
re-registered, now is the time. Be sure that you continue to get your 
copy of USMS Swimmer Magazine.
      http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/application.shtml

BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS GROUP
Many of you know Judy Strauss, who swims for Menlo Masters. Last year 
she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a Mastectomy in May and 
later reconstructive surgery. Shie is doing very well with no 
detectable cancer. She was able to swim at Worlds this summer and  is 
now trying to get back into shape to swim at Nationals. She would 
like to get a group of people together that are swimmers that have 
had chest surgery or injuries so that we can share some insights of 
what helps. If you would like to get together a group or just talk 
about your experiences contact Judy at judystrauss at sbcglobal dot 
net

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PACIFIC COMBINED INTO ONE TEAM
Pacific Masters announces the a new model for teams in Pacific. After 
a lot of work put in by the Team Committee, The Pacific LMSC will go 
to the New England team model. In the model, there is one team for 
competing at National and worlds, but for local events, the teams 
will compete as workout groups. Except for teams trying to break a 
record.

At the XI FINA World Masters Championships, there were many relay 
teams that combined for the World Championships. In the 200 Mixed 
Medley relay 200-239 a combined Colorado team beat a combined Florida 
for the event and also lowered the World record by 4.5 seconds.- 
Walnut Creek, a team with a single practice location beat the WR by 
1.5 seconds an came in a distant 3rd.

Pacific Masters  were disappointed. and I was asked as chairman what 
we could do about it. I appointed a committee of Barry Fasbender, 
Vice President of Operations, Kerry O'Brien of Walnut Creek Masters 
and Coaches co chair and Nancy Ridout, registrar and past USMS 
President to see what Pacific could do to be competitive in national 
and world records.

The result was to implement the New England LMSC model in 2007. In 
that model, most teams will no longer exist except as workout groups. 
See page about teams). All swimmers will be registered as members of 
Team Pacific (TPAC) unless they formally opt out to be "unattached" 
or to registered with a team.

Starting next year, Team Pacific will be the main team from Pacific 
Masters for US Nationals and FINA World Competition. Team Pacific 
will be able to draw from its over 10,000 athletes to compete in 
these prestigious events. Worlds and Nationals are such great events 
that Pacific wants to honor these events by allowing our best 
athletes to compete against the best athletes from other parts of the 
nation. Without being limited to just the local single pool team, 
Pacific can compete against the great teams of Team Tyr, Colorado and 
Florida.

Kerry O'Brien will be the head coach, besides overall coaching 
management of the Team Pacific, he will be the mens head coach (Men's 
relays). Brian Stack will be assistant head coach and have charge of 
the women (women's relays). Scott Williams and Tim Sheeper will be in 
charge of the mixed medley relays.

Brian said Pacific has always had such a strong contingent of women 
swimmers, I am proud  to be the head coach. Imagine have a relay team 
of Laura Val, Leanne Crittenden, Debbie (Meyer) Webber and Suzannne 
Heim-Bowen as a 200+ relay team

Next year is the XII FINA World Masters Championships in Perth 
Australia, Pacific will be picking up half the air fare for the four 
coaches.

So that swimmers who know how well they are swimming, if they plan to 
go to worlds in Perth, USF is making a change in their Valentines day 
meet. For the first time in 16 years, USF will host a long course 
meet. Cathy Huang, aquatics supervisor, said that the having a long 
course meet at that time of the year will be difficult, but USF had 
so much fun at the Stanford meet, that USF is willing to help in the 
new model.

For all those swimmers who will be traveling to Perth, Pacific is 
asking all to swim at the USF meet next February just to meet the 
coaches and to see how they are doing.

Rich Burns who designed the mascot of the XI FINA World Masters 
Championships will be designing the Team Pacific Logo and Mascot. 
After discussion with NorCal Swim wear to become the exclusive dealer 
with Team Pacific. Pacific LMSC has spoken with Stu Isaacs of Speedo 
and Roque Santos of Nike about becoming the official team supplier of 
Team Pacific.

The Pacific masters Short Course Yards championships will be held at 
the deep water pool in Pleasanton in late May this in 2008 after the 
World and USMS Championships in Austin. Team Pacific will be be going 
after all the short course relay records.

Jody Smith of Stanford Masters has been working with the Athletic 
Department to have the Pacific Masters Long Course Championships at 
the Avery Center. Due to the use of the pool in the summer, the 
Belardi pool will be available either the last weekend in July or the 
first weekend in August, thus giving the athletes time to compete 
then rest before Nationals in Oregon. This will be the long course 
meet for those who could not travel to Perth.

We have so many great swimmers that I think I have challenged the 
coaches to get half the short course   records and 2/3 of the USMS 
Long course relay records.

We've seen how well Masters swimmers have performed over the past 25 
years., We know that masters swimmers, but getting allowing some of 
the top USMS swimmers to compete on a team, we can really show the 
world what masters swimmers can do.

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Michael W. Moore