Pacific Masters Swimming launches a redesigned website to applause from around the Pacific LMSC region and beyond!
We are thrilled to support this launch. The Update will continue to deliver concise, up-to-date information to our Pacific Masters Swimming community.
A Note About the Website Redesign
The home page has something for everyone. There is a section for those new to, or curious about, Masters Swimming, and another that connects existing members with all that Pacific Masters has to offer. Pacificmasters.org: CHECK IT OUT!
In this issue, you will find information on upcoming swimming events and stories of interest. Jeff Commings and Suzanne Heim-Bowen will be the featured speakers at the Pacific Masters Annual Celebration and Meeting, November 13. Club Registration for 2023 is now open. It is important to have your club registered before swimmer registrations open on November 1.
The next Update will appear on November 14, 2022. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
Stay fit,
The Pacific Masters Swimming Committee
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Upcoming 2022 Events
Mark these on your calendar!
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USMS Swimmer Registration Opens
Read More Below
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DAM Brute Squad and Brute Squad Lite ePostal
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Pacific Masters Annual Celebration and Meeting
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400 Kick for Time
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2022 Pacific Masters Celebration and Meeting
Sunday, November 13
The 2022 Pacific Masters Annual Celebration and Meeting will be conducted by Zoom, Sunday, November 13 at 1:00 pm. The Celebration and Meeting will include the presentation of our Annual Service Awards, as well as attending to the business of maintaining our amazing organization.
Attendees will have the opportunity to win valuable prizes including gift cards and performance packages from P2Life with our famous Wheel of Prizes. There will also be cash awards to the teams with the most members present. The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Our two featured speakers:
Jeff Commings is well known to the Masters Swimming community having distinguished himself as an outstanding competitor, highly successful coach, and prolific author on all things swimming. The title of his talk will be, "How Masters Swimming Saved My Life."
Suzanne Heim-Bowen is a swimming virtuoso with competitive swims that span sprints in the pool, to ultra-marathons. Her accomplishments in open water and long distance swimming have earned her a place in the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Along with her many swimming accomplishments, she blazed a path by starting the women's swim team at Cal Poly. Suzanne tells her own story here.
We are looking forward to hearing these two pioneers of our sport recount their individual journeys and celebrating our outstanding members.
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14th Annual Ross Yancher Brute Squad and Brute Squad Lite ePostal Swims
November 1-30
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Sponsored by Davis Aquatic Masters, the Brute Squad returns for 2022. Feeling brutish? Prepare to show off your exceptional talents by competing in the virtual Brute Squad: 200 butterfly + 400 IM + 1650 free. Feeling a little less brutish? Choose the Brute Squad Lite: 100 butterfly + 200 IM + 500 free. All 3 events must be swum in the order listed above, in any 25-yard length pool.
Also offered is the Non-Competition Category in which all USMS members may participate. Use of equipment, and non-legal one-arm-butterfly, will be allowed.
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MEMO 400 Kick for Time
December 1 - 31
The 11th Annual MEMO 400 Kick for Time returns! MEMO wants everyone to improve their kicking and make an impression with the powerful beating sound of great legwork! "Kick" the event between December 1 and December 31, 2022. Enter your results by January 10, 2023.
Performed in an organized, supervised USMS practice, this is a great way to whip your legs into shape for the 2023 season. Information and Registration
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2022 Age Group Standings
As of October 17, 2022
Happily, in 2022 many of our traditional meet hosts returned, and Pacific Masters was able to offer pool competitions and open-water swims. Here are the current 2022 Age Group Standings. You can also find a link to these standings on the Outstanding Swimmer Awards page under the Recognition tab of our new website.
For those wanting to earn a few more points, while the Pacific competition calendar is complete for the year, you may wish to participate in the USMS Virtual 3000/6000 or travel to these West Coast meets: Carlsbad, CA on Nov 6, Hood River, OR on Nov 12 and Long Beach, CA Dec 2-4 for the SPMS SCM Championships. Points also remain to be issued for USMS LCM Top 10 and USMS SCM Top 10.
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Editors Wanted
Your Pacific Masters Update Newsletter Needs You!
We are searching for volunteers to join the Update Newsletter editing team. Are you talented with writing, editing, graphic design, photography, and/or reporting current events? This position involves assembling the stories and events that appear in Pacific's bi-weekly Update.
If you're interested, please contact Michael Moore, Chair, Communications Committee.
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2023 USMS Individual Registration
Opens November 1
Tomorrow, November 1st, the Individual 2023 USMS membership will open. Renew Your Membership between November 1 and December 31 for $65. After December 31 the fee will be $70.
USMS membership will help you take your swimming to the next level. You can read about all the great benefits on the USMS site, but here are just some highlights:
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Technique and training advice in SWIMMER magazine, STREAMLINES newsletters, and at usms.org
- A vast Workout Library that features seven specialties and loads of workouts for every swimming level
- Ability to participate in USMS pool, open water, or virtual events
- Access to local club workouts
- Exclusive discounts from our partners
- Ability to link your account with Swim.com and analyze your workout or race information
- Discussion forums to communicate with coaches and members nationwide
- FUN social interaction with like-minded adults
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It’s Time for 2023 Club Registration
Registration is Open
So far, 68% of Clubs are registered. Keep it up! Remember, club contacts will need to have a MYUSMS login to complete the Club renewal process. Find the USMS Club Registration information page here.
Swimmers, please remind your coach or club contact to get your club registered in October before swimmer registration opens on November 1. If your club is not registered with USMS when you register, you will not be able to select that club during registration.
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Happy Halloween
Stay safe, but swim like you're being chased by a ghost!
No tricks, only treats, from your Update Editors!
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