[PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update 14 February 2009

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

PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT:
As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific  
Masters is:

Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and  
maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster  
this mission.

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USF VALENTINES MEET RESULTS
The USF Valentines Day meet results of  February 7th have been posted.  
385 Swimmers competed, which made it one of the largest meets that  
they have held. Thanks of Duke Dahlin, Cathy Huang and the USF Masters  
for putting on the meet
	http://pacificmasters.org/comp/results.shtml

SHEILA TAROMINA TO SPEAK
Sheila Taromina who has competed in four different Olympiads in three  
different sports will speak on Saturday 2/21 at 3-6 pm.  She be  
talking  about her experiences, her training methodologies (especially  
for the not-so-young multisport athlete) and some of her ways of  
coping with the obstacles that life throws in the way. Coach Chris  
Campbell owes me a specific title that I can put in the  
announcements.  Admission is free.  She will be speaking att he  
Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Esculea Av, Mountain View. Admission  
is free to members of US Masters Swimming and USA Triathlon and their  
guests.

FIRST BEAR DONT HIBERNATE MEET
The first Bear dont Hibernate Meet will be held  Contra Costa College  
Swimming Pool in San Pablo. There are 33 events to pick and choose  
from. Pre-entry Deadline is 13 February.
         http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09bear.scy.pdf

The preentry deadline is today. You can still register on line at:
	
	https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1192&smid=1567

WALNUT CREEK INTENSIVE TRAINING CAMP
The 22nd Walnut Creek Intensive Training Camp will be March 6,7,and 8  
at Heather Farm's Clark Swim Center. Besides the great 'Creek coaches  
Brian Stack of the Manatees, Mike Collins and Jim Miller, MD of  
Virginia Masters will help swimmers swim their best.  This event  
always sells out so register now if you want to attend.
    http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09wcmtrain.pdf

RINCONADA MASTERS SPRING SHORT COURSE MEET
The Rinconada Masters Spring Short Course meet will be held Saturday  
March 14th at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Also. the first event is the  
1000 free, which you must pre enter. The preentery deadline is 4 March  
2009. The class of the events is the 1650 butterfly - entry free for  
this one. - one heat only.
         http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf

SCAM Spring Break Meet
The Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters Spring Break meet will be on 21  
March 2009 at the Spieker Aquatic Complex, UC Berkeley. The first  
event - the 500 free- is pre-seeded. you can enter on line at
         http://scam.mastersswim.com

US MASTERS SWIMMING SHORT COURSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2009 US Masters Short Course online meet registration is now open.  
You can register at
	https://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/onlineentry.php
The Short Course Championships will be held in Clovis, California at  
the new Clovis North Swimming pools. Pacific Masters is the host LMSC  
of the championships and we hope that everyone consider participating  
at the championships.

JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL
The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can swim  
the event from now until the end of February. You just need to have a  
person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry 
  (a four dollar discount from the paper entry).

GO THE DISTANCE
US Masters Swimming continues its fitness program of tracking your  
swimming millage in the "Go The Distance" program. The program is just  
to track your daily yardage on an Excel spreadsheet. Once a month send  
the total to the Go the Distance chief - Mary Sweat.

There are two forms that one can use. The first is the easy form of  
just tracking yardage, for those who realy want to track how that  
yardage was achieved - swimming, kicking, by stroke there is the  
advanced version of the swim sheet. (I am lucky I can just remember  
what the total yardage was for the day - let alone break it out).

Linda Schoenberger wrote about the program in her "Come Join in the  
Fun" article on the US Masters Swimming web site (http://www.usms.org/fitness/articleofthemonth.php?a=170 
).

I encourage all swimmers to track their yardage over the year and to  
have fun. (bet with your lane mates who will swim the most miles -  
loser buys dinner). It would help of Coaches posted the total yardage  
for the workout at the bottom of any workout board that they use.

Right now Walnut Creek swimmers are just barely leading Manatee  
Masters by less than a mile. I hope all swimmers will participate.

REGIONAL CLUB CATAGORIES
The USMS House of Delegates passed a new rule regarding club scoring  
at Nationals to take effect beginning with Short Course Nationals in  
Clovis.

Previously, club awards at Nationals simply went to the top ten  
highest scoring clubs in Men’s, Women’s and Combined categories. The  
new rule establishes two separate club categories: Regional and Local.  
A formal definition of the two club categories as well as the list of  
regional clubs is at:
	http://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?t=13270
	
SUZANNE HEIM-BOWEN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL AND JOINS THE SWIM TEAM
 From the US Masters Swimming web site "A Masters Swimmer's Return to  
College Swimming

"In 1977 Suzanne Heim-Bowen was a founding member of the women's  
swimming team at California Polytechnic State University, San Obispo,  
Cal. (Cal Poly), but only competed for two seasons during her college  
career. With remaining eligibility, Suzanne enrolled in classes and  
joined the swim team at Diablo Valley College, a two-year community  
college, in early 2009 at the age of 50. Suzanne maintains her full- 
time job as a school psychologist, attends a full schedule of college  
courses, and manages to swim with not one, but three, teams in her  
local area!"

	more at http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=113

US MASTERS SWIMMING'S HEADQUARTERS TO SARASOTA, FLORIDA
U.S. Masters Swimming,  is pleased to announce it has selected  
Sarasota, Fla., in which to establish its national headquarters. After  
an extensive search process that included the review of numerous  
proposals from various cities across the country, the U.S. Masters  
Swimming Board of Directors approved the selection of Sarasota.

"This is a significant milestone in the history of U.S. Masters  
Swimming," commented Rob Copeland, U.S. Masters Swimming president.  
"For nearly 40 years, we have existed as a virtual, volunteer-run  
organization. Our membership has continued and is continuing to grow.  
We are now at nearly 50,000 members, and with the hiring of an  
executive director and additional staff, establishing a national  
headquarters is a natural evolution."

"Sarasota, through the entire process, exhibited a tremendous  
volunteer spirit that marries well with our culture," continued  
Copeland. "They are committed to health and fitness, and aquatics are  
an important part of their community, as evidenced by the nationally  
recognized Sarasota Sharks age-group and Masters swimming programs.  
They also are a community steeped in giving, with numerous  
foundations, which also fits well with our own foundation program. The  
Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County developed a  
diverse committee that included local Masters swimmers, the Sarasota  
YMCA, Ringling College, University of South Florida Sarasota -Manatee,  
the city, the county and private business leaders, all coming together  
to make us feel very welcome. We see important short-term and long- 
term opportunities in Sarasota that we believe can best serve our  
initiatives. We in turn look forward to being a terrific and valued  
partner to Sarasota.
	http://www.usms.org/news/newsitem.php?n=56

Workouts Available to Members Online

How would you like to have workouts delivered directly to your e-mail  
box?
U.S. Masters Swimming has four coaches who post weekly workouts on our  
Discussion Forums. As a U.S. Masters Swimming member, you can  
subscribe to these workout threads and have them delivered to you by e- 
mail.
The 2009 online coaches are Mo Chambers, Nate McBride, Jacki Hirsty  
and Patrick Cantrell
To use this feature you will have to first create a Discussion Forums  
account. To create your account, just fill out the forms here and  
follow the link that will be sent to you via e-mail in order to fully  
activate your account.
         http://www.usms.org/features.php?id=103


Does Regular Swimming Reduce Your Risk of Dying?

by Steven N. Blair, P.E.D. - University of South Carolina
"Physical inactivity is documented as a major public health problem,  
and inactive and unfit persons are more likely to develop chronic  
diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and other  
ailments lose function with age and thereby lose their independence  
and die prematurely. Most of the evidence on physical activity and  
health is from experimental studies of aerobic exercise, typically  
running and epidemiological studies of self-reported physical activity  
habits or measured physical fitness. Evidence from the Aerobics Center  
Longitudinal Study (ACLS) indicates that individuals who report  
swimming for exercise have baseline risk factor profiles similar to  
runners, and better profiles than those who are sedentary.
"Recent analyses in the ACLS have addressed mortality rates in  
sedentary individuals, walkers, swimmers, and runners. More than  
40,000 men in the ACLS completed an extensive medical examination,  
including a self-report of their physical activity habits, and were  
then followed for several years for mortality. Preliminary analyses  
show that mortality rates in swimmers were less than one half those  
observed in sedentary men (p&lt0.01). Future analyses will evaluate  
mortality rates in walkers and runners. We conclude that men who swim  
for exercise have better survival rates than their sedentary peers."

This is from a study financed by the National Swimming Pool Foundation
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APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL  
CHAMPIONSHIPS
An application to  officiate at the US Masters Championships is at
         http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph
An  application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position  
(deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, N3  
certification.

US MASTERS SWIMMING HAS A NEW E-NEWSLETTER - BEHIND THE BLOCKS
US Masters Swimming has a new e-newsletter which has already gone out.  
If you did not receive it - you may not be alone more than one member  
of the US Masters Swimming Board of Directors did not receive it  
either. Ashley has done a great job in production of the colorful  
newsletter.
Go to
         http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?p=oi&m=1102294150505
to sign up for the USMS News letter. (You can also go to the USMS web  
site to sign up for it).

Sports Medicine & Science Presentations
For several years the USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee has  
been arranging presentations that are given during national  
championship meets. Leading professionals provide information on  
various sports science and
medicine topics. The committee is interested in finding out what  
medical and scientific topics related to swimming, training, and  
health you are interested in hearing about.

Please post your requests and we will design upcoming presentations  
around
the most popular topics.
Thanks for your input.
John Morales
USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee

WINTER ISSUE OF STREAMLINES IS READY
The Winter issue of Stremlines, the newsletter for the administration  
of US Masters Swimming is now available on line:

	http://www.usms.org/admin/stream2009winter.pdf
INDIVIDUAL  RENEWAL
You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line,  
it is very easy, just go to:
         https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38
and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs  
listed below you can register with your club.

If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to  
register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can  
change membership.

For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still  
has a paper registration form to send to Nancy.

   http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf

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