Annual Celebration and Meeting

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2020 Annual Celebration

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Hey Coaches!

You and your teams are cordially invited to the 2020 Pacific Masters Annual Celebration taking place virtually the Sundays of November 8^th and 15^th. The above orange button will get you registered for this completely free event.

As an incentive for you to participate, Pacific Masters is holding a contest for club participation. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three (3) clubs’ attendance in small, medium, and large divisions. The clubs with the greatest attendance in each division on November 15th will receive $300, the clubs the second greatest attendance will receive $200, and the third-place clubs will receive $100. Attendance will be based on the percentage of participation determined by the club’s membership as of October 31^st.

On the 8th, we will show the documentary film of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal (USA vs. the East German women’s swim team of performance enhancing drugs fame) The Last Gold, which will be followed by a panel of swimmers who participated on the USA team and the director of the film Brian Brown, moderated by Rowdy Gaines.

Pacific Masters values your membership and is excited to offer you this opportunity!

We hope you’ll join us,

Nancy Ridout, Chair

Pacific Masters Annual Celebration Committee

November 8 & November 15

The year of Covid-19 has been especially disruptive to the swimming world. We've lost our swimming holes, our events, our routines and everything that's good about our sport. While we can't replicate the in person dynamics, our virtual gathering promises to engage and entertain you.

Since we missed the Olympics this year, on November 8th we'll take a trip back to the 1976 Montreal Games with a screening of the amazing movie, The Last Gold. It's the story of the epic clash between the U.S. women swimmers and the steroid enhanced East German team. The film will be followed by a live (albeit virtual) panel discussion with the film's director Brian Brown and the athletes who were there including Jill Sterkel, Wendy Boglioi, Camille Wright Thompson, Karen Moe Humphries, John Naber, Rick Collela, Gary Hall Sr, and moderated by Rowdy Gaines.

Our November 15th meeting will feature "A Strange Year", the story of how our members adapted to the pandemic. We'll also conduct our Annual Meeting, present the Pacific Masters Service Awards and be treated to Albany Armada Aquatics' Bonnie Tsui talking about her popular book "Why We Swim". We'll also be giving special prizes for clubs and individuals.

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