Meets and Records
Daily Archives: June 24, 2016
1 The Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina — known as “tournament town” due to its history of hosting a number of well-known championship sporting events — served as the venue for the 2016 USMS Spring Nationals which was held April 28 through May 1. This was the second time […]
Whitewater Showdown in Tournament Town
1 Virginia Phipps Age 91; Oregon City Tankers In the spring of 2015, at the age of 90, Virginia found herself in a role reversal. After countless years of taking her kids to swim practice, her son Tom was taking her to swim with the Oregon City Tankers. A year later, with […]
Swimmer Spotlight: Virginia Phipps
1 One swimming book everyone should read this summer is The Three-Year Swim Club, by Julie Checkoway. It is about swimmers on Maui before WWII who started training in a sugar field irrigation ditch. The coach, Soichi Sakamoto, wanted a three year commitment from the kids, thus the name of the […]
Swim Bits – In the Doing of the Thing
What in the World is a CBAT? By Marlys Cappaert and Sandra Uesugi Whenever we check in at swim events, there is always a little stumbling and mumbling over our long team name: “Circumnavigating Beaver Aquatic Team.” We smile in response to the quizzical looks and just say, “CBATs for […]
July 2016 – Team Life
“There’s something about the water that invites us to jump in. And when we do, we are immersed in fun, in joy, and in love.” — Lynne Cox, from the foreword A recent Masters Swimmer on the Willamette Valley Aquatic Club Masters team (they are no longer active) in Portland, […]
The Joy of Swimming
Swimmers from across the Pacific Northwest convened in beautiful Bend, Oregon, for a weekend packed with events under the banner of a “Wonderful Water Weekend.” Saturday’s schedule included a morning open-water clinic at the Juniper Swim & Fitness Center, followed by a meet in the LCM outdoor pool, and continued […]
Wonderful Water Weekend
Warm-up Warming up for practice and competition is vital to swimming performance. The hardest part of swimming is just getting into the pool. Warm-up is a physical and mental process that can vary immensely from person to person. Mentally we need to get into the right mind set and we […]