The Update 2012 March 6

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The Update

29 March 2012

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New Meet - Quicksilver - San Jose

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Greetings!

This weekend is the 2012 Pacific Master Short Course Yards Championships (see below). Come out and cheer your friends.

This year is the return of the 2x1 relay which the Manatees are organizing. Now is the time to find your swimming partner.

Club reps were asked for information about their club, there are now links to many of our clubs our web template, please test it out (if there are any problems, please report them).

Have fun!!

Fun, Fitness & Competition

Kind regards,

-michael

Michael Moore

Pacific Masters SCY Championships

Soda Springs Aquatic Center

This year the 2012 Pacific Masters Short Course Yards Championships will be held at the Soda Aquatic Center, Campolindo High School, Moraga, CA. The first event is the 1650 which starts at 1:00PM Friday 30 March 2012. Please remember that the men and the women swim together.

You can follow the meet by going to either the special Pacific site for the meet or you if you have an iPhone, you can download the Active.com Meet Mobile app. With either app you can follow the meet and see how your friends are doing.

The competition will be strong. Walnut Creek and USF will be fighting it out for first place in the Large Team Division.

Quicksilver Masters Spring SCY Meet

A new meet is now on the Pacific Masters calendar - The Quicksilver Swimming Masters Spring SCY meet is being organized by San Jose Aquatics. The 21st April meet will have and assortment of strokes, with the 500 free and 1650 free also being offered.

Pacific Masters Newsletter

Electronic Edition

The March-April 2012 edition of the Pacific Masters Newsletter has been posted. The newsletter contains the Chairman's letter, meet sheets through the beginning of May and the results of the 2012 Open Water Points competition.

As it has been announced in the previous Newsletter, this newsletter will NOT be inserted into your copy of USMS Swimmer. This is an electronic copy of the newsletter, you must download it.

US Masters 2014 Short Course Championships

The US Masters Swimming Championship Committee is looking for bidders on the west coast for the 2014 Spring Championships. The meet normally attracts between 1500 to 2,000 athletes.

For a meet organizing the spring nationals, the club should have

1. At least a 50 meter pool

2. Another pool for warm up

3. The Ability to organize a high level meet.

If your club is interested or if you would like further information, please contact either Barry Fasbender or Michael Moore, both members of the Championship Committee.