[PacMasterUpdate] The Update 6 April 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.

CHANGES IN OPEN WATER AND LONG DISTANCE SCHEDULE - SEE BELOW

PACIFIC MASTERS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS -
  ENTRIES CLOSE WEDNESDAY
The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be 
held April 17-19 at the Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in 
Pleasanton. Swimmers can enter on line at:
	http://wcm.mastersswim.com

Earlier this year New England Masters had 858 swimmers register for 
their LMSC championships. Truly an awesome job for an LMSC for a 
group that has less than 2,000 swimmers.
Entries close April 8.


US MASTERS SWIMMING 2009 SHORT COURSE MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
ENTRIES CLOSE THURSDAY
The 2009 US Masters Swimming Short Course Masters National 
Championships will be held at the Clovis North High School Pool, 
Clovis, CA. The online entry system will automatically close at 11:59 
p.m. Pacific time on April 9, 2009.
	http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/

2009 USMS ONE-MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
The meet sheet for the US Masters Swimming One-Mile National 
Championships has been posted. You must pre-enter the meet. the meet 
deadline is 5 May. You are encouraged to enter early as the meet is 
limited to the first 1000 entries.

If you enter by 15 April it will cost you $10.00 less to enter.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09clovow.pdf

SHORT COURSE YARDS RECORDS
The 2009 USMS / Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Records have been 
posted. You can download either the individual or the relay records. 
(Records are in a PDF format). Now you can check to see what you need 
to break a Pacific or National record.

Thanks to Nancy Ridout, our top ten and records chair for producing 
the records.

RESULTS FROM 2000
The results from the year 2000 have been unlinked, therefore, not 
very accessible from a few years. They have now been relinked. So for 
those who want to check to see how they did nine years ago, the 
results are available.
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/resultsold.shtml

PARKSIDE MILE
The Parkside Mile has moved to 25 April, same place, but had to 
change the date. The Parkside Mile meet sheet has been posted.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09smmmow.pdf

SPRING LAKE MILE
The Spring Lake Mile has been moved to the 16th Of May. It is a week 
earlier than what has been on the schedule.

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.

SWIMFEST 09
US MASTERS SWIMMING  will be sponsoring SwimFest 09 for coaches and 
swimmers at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, TX (near Houston). For 
coaches it will be a chance to work with some of the greatest coaches 
in Masters Swimming: Kerry O'Brien, Kris Houchesn, Mike Collins and 
Jim Montogmery. They will work with coaches on their coaching 
technique and mentor The Masters coaches ill cover the business of 
being a Masters Coach and other topics.

Swimmers will be able to improve their swimming  and work on all four 
strokes, starts and turns under the guidance of great coaches.

U.S. Masters Swimming will be awarding a limited number of coach 
scholarships. If you are a Masters coach and need financial 
assistance to attend, please contact Mel Goldstein, Director of Club 
& Coach Services via email or by phone at 317-253-8289.

Coaches are free
Swimmers are $85.

More info at http://www.usms.org/swimfest/


WHERE PACIFIC IS - MEMBERSHIP AND CLUBS
As of April 5th Pacific has 7394 members which is 770 members more 
than we had at the same time last year (increase of 11.6 % over the 
same time last year) Pacific is 2.2x larger than the next largest 
LMSC)

There are currently 117 clubs registered with Pacific. The Largest 
Clubs in Pacific (with more than 100 members) are:

Davis Aquatic Masters	534
Walnut Creek Masters	407
Tuolumne County Aqt Masters	388
Stanford Masters*		347
Santa Clara Swim Club *	291
USF Masters		283
Menlo Masters		260
Cruz Masters*		215
Manatee Aquatic Masters	196
Mountain View Masters	178
Temescal Masters*		159
Burlingame Aquatic Club*	148
Rockland Aquatic Masters*	143
Strawberry Canyon Canyon Masters	143
TriValley Masters		140
Modesto Aquatic *		135
Tsunami Masters *		120
Central Valley *		118
Bay Masters		117
Rinconada Masters*		116
Sierra Nevada Masters	109
South End Rowing Club	105

Clubs with an * next to their name have had a year to year growth 
rate of more than 10%.Santa Clara has had the increase in number of 
swimmers - 99. Congratulations to all the coaches who are the 
backbone of Pacific - you are the ones that are the cause of 
Pacific's growth.

Club reps can get a list of members from Nancy Ridout.

SWIMMING WORLD'S SWIMMERS OF THE YEAR
Congratulations to Laura Val (TAM), Rich Burns (TAM) and Paul Carter 
(TOC) for being nominated as one of the twelve best Masters Swimmers 
of 2008. Honorable mention to Suzanne Heim-Bowen and Bob Strand. The 
forums pages at USMS
	http://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?t=13654
You can also subscribe to Swimming World
   http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/


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OFF THE WALL
I was at the North Clovis High School in Fresno about ten days ago. 
Things are going along very well. It is a new high school and there 
are no junior or seniors there which means that the student parking 
lots will not have students parking there.

The hotels that are listed are about a 20 minute drive from the pool. 
The organizing committee has printed directions from the hotels to 
the pool. USE THE DIRECTIONS and not Mapquest or google maps. Both 
set of directions from them will lead you by schools, which will slow 
you down in the morning and afternoon.

I would suggest that you drive, if you are able. Northern Fresno is 
spread out in typical suburban fashion if you are staying at a hotel, 
your choice of places to eat is severely limited.

There will be a lot of shaded seating available on the west side of 
the main competition pool (it is the western pool - the two pools are 
aligned north-south). There will be a lot of space for teams to put 
up their own tents, the space will be in back of the bench seating.

The main competition pool is deep and looks pretty fast. The second 
pool is deep where there will be competition.

This is the first meet where the team competition will be broken 
between the regional clubs and the "local" clubs. All Pacific Masters 
clubs are local club and will be competing against like clubs.

The one mile long distance national championship will be held at 
Millerton Lake which is a short distance away. The championship will 
be held at the same place that the Millerton Lake meet was held last 
year. The water temperature is expected to be between 68 to 70. 
Electronic chips will be used to automatically record your time. (for 
those who have a significant other or for those who think they have 
not left enough money in California or would like to try to get their 
trip money back, there is an Indian Gambling casino about a mile from 
the starting point - remember those gaming places were not able to 
build those palaces because they were losing money to the players).




-- 
michael w. moore
michael at pacificmasters.org