Coaches, we really need your help in spreading word to the swimmers about the Excel Weekend clinic held June 10-12 in San Mateo. Registrations are going well for coaches, but it won't be complete with out swimmers, and we need more swimmers to sign up! I've attached two flyers here that you can post on your website, email out to your team, or print and hand out at practice. Excel Flyer 1. Excel Flyer 2. 

Encourage your swimmers to sign up now as the discount registration price of $130 expires May 15th and bumps up to $150 after that. Registration for the clinic closes June 3rd. The hotel deal of $99 a night at the San Mateo Marriott SFO (with free parking, a $20 value) must be booked by May 19th. All the information is on our Excel Weekend website.

This is an excellent forum for any level of swimmer to get instruction or a tune up on all four strokes, starts, turns, open water techniques, and new concepts in dryland training, all from an incredible and award-winning coaching staff. We have recently signed Coach Dave Durden, Cal's Men's Swim Team Coach (and NCAA Champs!). Coach Durden will be presenting our "Advanced Techniques for Competitors" on Sunday. 

Swimmers (and coaches) have the opportunity to be filmed by Global Sports Technology. The GST Swim Power Test measures and analyzes changes in velocity, force, acceleration and power at each phase of the swimmer's stroke. The filming is processed after the clinic and the participant receives a DVD of the filming along with an in-depth report from Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas. A flyer on the filming can be found on our website (link is above). 

In addition to GST filming, we are working with H20 Video Down Under to do underwater filming of up to 50 of our swimmers at the clinic. This filming is quite different from the GST filming, which is about graphing a swimmer's stroke cycle and determining where that swimmer is strong or weak in his/her stroke cycle. H20 filming is standard underwater filming and the participants opting for this will receive a CD or DVD of their filming and take it back to their coach for analysis.

We also have several big name vendors joining us and setting up booths on Saturday at the clinic. We promise an informative and fun filled weekend! 

And coaches, this clinic is designed for you. The Excel Weekend clinic is free to coaches! Come learn new tips, tricks, and concepts that will enhance your coaching abilities. You will have a great opportunity to network with other coaches and swimmers. Be sure and jump on this soon! 

With your help, the Excel Weekend clinic will be terrific! Please help us spread the word.

Sincerely,
Cokie Lepinski

Coaches Chair
Pacific Masters Swimming

TRI-CALIFORNIA PARTNERS WITH PACIFIC MASTERS: More swimming in the San Francisco Bay - for your Team

The best thing you can do for your club is to get them together for a social event and have fun. We hope that we can help you out with that. We want you to be a part of it and we are offering you a $50.00 off promotional code: PacMastersCoach2011, just for telling your swimmers. If you register 10 or more swimmers, you swim for free. Just email us when your swimmers have all registered and we will credit your registration after confirming it.

Tri-California Events, producers of the Alcatraz Challenge Swims, S.F. Triathlon at Alcatraz and S. F. Triathlon at Treasure Island has joined Pacific Masters as an affiliate partner. As part of this partnership we have agreed to provide a $20.00 discount to individual members who register for our events in the San Francisco Bay if they use the promotional code: PacMasters2011. In addition, we have agreed to give each Pacific Masters Swimming Club a $10 donation per member for each race that has 10 or more swimmers who register with the Pacific Masters Swimming Promotional Code: PacMasters2011.

Our first event is the Alcatraz Challenge Swim on May 22nd. This is an epic event in the San Francisco Bay with a 1.5 mile open water swim from Alcatraz Island to East Beach in the Presidio. Our second event is the San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island on July 8-10th with both Sprint and Olympic Distances. The third event is the Alcatraz Challenge Aquathlon and Swim on July 17th. The Aquathlon is a 1.5 mile swim from Alcatraz Island to East Beach and then a 7 mile run over the Golden Gate Bridge. There is also a Swim only event with a 1.5 mile swim in the San Francisco Bay. The last event in the San Francisco Bay is the San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz on August 21st. It has a 1.2 mile swim from Alcatraz Island to Marina Green, a 25 mile bike ride to Golden Gate Park and a 7 mile run to Baker Beach under the Golden Gate Bridge. You can get more information on these events at www.tricalifornia.com

We hope that you will join in these great events and get your whole club to enter. You can just swim, compete in an aquathon, or go all the way with a triathlon. In the triathlons you can even register with your friends as a relay team with one swimmer, one biker and one runner. When you register there is a CLUB drop down box where you can select Pacific Masters Swimming as your CLUB . There is also a box to enter your promotional code: PacMasters2011, on the first page of your registration to receive a $20.00 discount.