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Pacific Update
Week of May 16, 2022
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Hello!
In this issue, you will find information on upcoming swimming events and stories that will interest the swimming community.
With the USMS Spring National Championships behind us, it's time to look forward and prepare for our exciting summer calendar. For our long course fans, we just added the Quicksilver Masters Fast and Free LCM Meet on June 25 and the PacMasters Long Course Championships on July 29-31. Check out these events and more upcoming meets below.
The next issue of the Update will appear on May 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
Stay fit,
The Pacific Masters Swimming Committee
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Upcoming 2022 Summer Events
Start Making Your Plans!
Check out our schedule page for more updates about upcoming swims.
JUNE
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June 4--Lake Berryessa, DAM, Lake Berryessa, CA
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June 11-12--Del Valle Open Water Festival, TVM, Lake Del Valle, Livermore, CA
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JUST ADDED: June 25--Quicksilver Masters Fast and Free LCM Meet, QSS, Gunderson HS, San Jose, CA
JULY
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July 10--Silver State Long Course Meet, CCM and SNM, Carson City Aquatic Center, Carson City, NV
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JUST ADDED: July 29-31--PacMasters Long Course Championships, MAQ, Indian Valley College, Novato CA
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July 30-31--Santa Cruz Open Water Weekend, CRUZ, Cowell Beach, Santa Cruz, CA
AUGUST
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August 1-31--400 Fastest Pull for Sebastopol, SMAC (any pool)
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August 3-7--USMS Summer Nationals, USMS, Richmond, VA
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August 13--Donner Lake, SNM, Donner Lake, Truckee, CA
SEPTEMBER
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September 1--Whiskeytown Open Water Swims, RAD, Whiskeytown National Park, Redding, CA
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September 17--Keller Cove Swim for Kids' Sake. RPM, Miller/Knox Regional Park, Richmond, CA
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Lake Berryessa Open Water Swims
Saturday, June 4
Registration for the 2022 DAM-sponsored Lake Berryessa Open Water Swims is open! Lake Berryessa is one of the best-attended and iconic swims on our schedule. The event includes both the 1-mile and 2-mile looped swims in Lake Berryessa, Napa County, CA., and is limited to 500 entrants. Don't delay!
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Del Valle Open Water Festival
Saturday and Sunday, June 11-12
Save the date for TVM's 2022 Del Valle Open Water Festival with the 5K USMS Long Distance National Championship taking place on Saturday and the 2.5K/1.2K on Sunday. Online registration for the 5K closes 11:59 PM on June 9, 2022, or earlier if the participant limit of 350 swimmers is reached.
This year, a Just for Fun Division is being offered (for 1.2K and 2.5K events only): Fins or pull buoy will be allowed.
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Silver State Long Course Meet
Sunday, July 10
Carson City Masters, CCM, and Sierra Nevada Masters, SNM, have joined forces to host a long course meet at the beautiful Carson City Aquatics Center, Carson City, Nevada, on Sunday, July 10. Start planning a weekend getaway. Details to follow.
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Interested in Hosting SCY Championships in 2023?
Our Pacific Masters Administrative Handbook itemizes the guidelines for selecting/recruiting Championship hosts in section 102.3.B(2).D. Pacific Masters is supposed to review all bids for Championships in our August meeting. In the past few years (even pre-pandemic), we have had to actively recruit hosts for our SCY and LCM meets, sometimes in an uncomfortably close time frame.
Pacific Masters now has a club that has expressed interest in hosting our 2023 Short Course Yards Championships in mid-April 2023. We would like to open the bidding early and have a deadline of June 1 instead of August 1, so we can respond to this club in a timely manner.
If your club is interested in hosting the Short Course Yards Championships for spring of 2023, please submit your request by using our Event Hosting Application Forms for pool meets no later than May 31, 2022.
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Help Pacific Masters Grow
Win a Pacific Masters Towel!
Swimming is one of the best exercises we can do for ourselves. Since word of mouth is the best advertising, tell everyone you know about Pacific Masters Swimming.
If you bring a friend to join your club and Pacific Masters, you can enter a monthly drawing for a Sports 20 in. X 36 in. microfiber towel. The towel will have the Pacific Masters logo on it and will tell other swimmers that you helped grow Masters Swimming.
Just get a new member, or bring back a swimmer who has not been a PacMasters swimmer in the past four years (2018-2021), to join Pacific Masters. Then enter their name, your name, and the club name at New Member Towel Drawing.
There will be a drawing for towels on the last day of the month, from April through October. If you bring in a new swimmer from March 1st, 2022 to the end of October, 2022, you are eligible for the drawing.
Good luck and thank you for spreading the word about the benefits of swimming, while helping to grow Pacific Masters!
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Pacific Masters Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, May 18, Doors Open at 6:45, Meeting at 7 PM
Join us Wednesday, May 18, for our monthly meeting via the Zoom platform. If this is your first time Zooming, we suggest you sign on a little early to ask questions and address technical issues. Even if you are familiar with Zoom, sign on early to say "hi" to your fellow swimmers.
Our monthly meeting reminder email will provide the Zoom link. If you are not on that list and would like to attend, please send an email to [email protected] for details. All members are encouraged to participate.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
Nominations are due July 1
USMS will be recognizing an individual or club that has demonstrated public commitment to diversity, equity, equality, and inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity and ability with Masters Swimming. Do you know of that special someone/club? Nominate them for the inaugural award! Details, including nomination forms, can be found here.
The Pacific Masters D&I Committee is always looking for more committee members. We are currently a group of five really passionate, thoughtful and kind individuals from four different teams. We meet the second Thursday of each month at 7 PM. Interested? We can't wait to meet you!
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2022 USMS Convention
September 16-18, Denver, CO and virtual
If you are interested in being a Pacific Masters delegate for the 2022 USMS Annual Meeting from Friday afternoon, September 16 to Sunday morning, September 18, 2022 NOW is the time to ask questions or express interest. Contact Chris Ottati, Administrator. The meeting will be virtual and in-person.
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2022 USMS National Championships San Antonio Report
A post mortem of the recent USMS National Championships in San Antonio would show a superbly run meet in one of the finest aquatic complexes in the country (pictured left, photo credit: Rich Burns). A visit to USMS.org provides a wealth of information about the meet. While USMS has in the past provided live feeds of all races, this year they’ve made it especially easy to view them. If you weren’t able to attend but are curious to see how you might have fared, use this link to go to the SwimPhone results summary. Find your events and age group and pick a swimmer in what would have been your heat based on your entry time. Scroll down and you’ll find links to all of the videos of that race.
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Observe Dave Durden, CAL Men's Swim Team Head Coach, in Action
Monday, June 20
Coach Durden, Head Coach, Cal Men's swim team is inviting any and all masters coaches to observe him on deck at a Cal Men's practice on Monday afternoon, June 20, 2:15-3:30 pm. Cost per coach is $25. Following this time of observation on-deck, he will be available to meet with our coaches and have a time of discussion, questions and answers - very similar to our on-deck invitation by Teri McKeever a few months ago. Interested? Reserve your spot now by emailing [email protected].
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Masters Women in Coaching Clinic
Saturday, October 15
Save the date! This will be our first-ever Women in Coaching clinic for Masters swimming in our LMSC. It will be led by Dana Kirk, Head Coach, Fremont Hills Masters. Mark the date on your calendars! More details to come. For now, to learn more about Dana's story, check out the following article (insert link to Carol's write up about Dana)
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Temescal Aquatic Masters
Seeking Candidates for Head Coach and Assistant Coach
Temescal Aquatic Masters in Oakland, TEME, is seeking candidates for its Head Coach and Assistant Coach positions. A key leader of our team, the Head Coach should be an experienced coach and swimmer who motivates both fellow coaches and swimmers through effective communication and reinforcement.
The Assistant Coach coaches a minimum of two practices weekly (currently weekday mornings). In this leadership role, the Assistant Coach should be an experienced coach and swimmer who loves the sport and enjoys helping adults achieve their fitness goals and become better swimmers. Complete job descriptions for these positions are posted here: Temescal Masters Hiring.
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Summer Movie Diving Scenes
With summer coming up, so are the movie blockbusters. While there are plenty of aquatic scenes featuring swimmers, there are also famous scenes involving a close relative of the swimmer, the diver. Here's a look at a couple of fun summer movie diving scenes:
One famous movie scene from the 2016 movie, Mechanic: Resurrection, involves actor Jason Statham diving off a high cliff. What people might not know is that Statham, who is currently filming the summer movie Meg 2, was a competitive diver who represented England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. For the Mechanic: Resurrection scene, instead of using a stunt double, he just applied his experience as a diver to do the stunt himself.
Another famous diving scene, this time courtesy of comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield, features a fictional dive called the Triple Lindy. In the summer hit, Back to School, Dangerfield plays a father and businessman who enrolls in his son's college when he hears his son is struggling. Both father and son are divers. Dangerfield's character, Thornton, was known for performing a unique and challenging dive, the Triple Lindy. In the climax of the movie, with the diving team one man short, Thornton does the Triple Lindy as a walk-on competitor and helps the team win against their rivals.
Here's to more exciting summer movies and diving scenes! 🥂
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