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Daily Archives: December 17, 2016

Men's 200-239 4x100 SCM Free Relay — There were 77 swimmers registered in the Fall Classic at Hood River. This pool has 10 lanes, and a nice warm (93°F) hydrotherapy pool! Thank you, Sandi, for hosting this meet. Here are some highlights, comments and fun notes about the meet: This was Mirjana Prather’s (MVA) first meet in […]

World Record Swimming at Hood River — Exciting!

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Meet Summary by Jill Marie Asch

World Record 200 Medley Relay; Age group 280-319; Joy Ward, Rebecca Kay, Janet Gettling, Sandi Rousseau — Relays are fun! And OMS is allowing members to sign up with club OREG for free this year! You read correctly — it is FREE! That would make more fast swimmers available for relays. All members of the same club can swim in a relay. Since Club OREG has a […]

Try a Relay

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Featured / Relays by Aqua Master Editor

Jeanne Teisher — Dear Fellow Swimmers: After 12 years (off and on) as the OMS Chair I am handing over the gavel, so to speak, to Tim Waud. It has been an honor and privilege to serve the OMS Masters swimmers as Chair for the past few years. It has also been an […]

Jeanne Teisher Retiring as OMS Board Chairman

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Chair's Corner by Jeanne Teisher

Tiny Aileen Riggin of Newport, Rhode Island, was only 14 years old when she won her Olympic gold medal in springboard diving. At 4 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 65 pounds, she was the smallest athlete at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. She was born May 2, […]

Aileen Riggin-Soule — Olympic Diver and Swimmer

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Tim Waud — U.S. Masters Swimming held the National Coaches Clinic (NCC) in San Mateo, California, November 11-13, 2016. This was the 2nd Annual NCC with over 130 USMS Coaches in attendance. Guest speakers included: Dr. Ernest Maglischo, Steven Munatones, CokieLepinski, Olympian Sheila Taormina, Dr. Rod Havriluk, and Coach Ronald A. Marcikic. I […]

2016 U.S. Masters Swimming National Coaches Clinic—San Mateo, California

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Coach's Chair / Coaching by Tim Waud

Long Distance Swimming — What is the One-Hour Swim? This event resolves the basic question of how far can you swim in one hour. It’s the first USMS postal swim each year, done only during the months of January & February. It’s the largest stand-alone participation event on the USMS calendar, as more than […]

2017 One Hour Swim

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Long Distance by Bob Bruce

Click to Download: Meets & Records December 2016

Recent Meets & Records

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Meet Summary / Records / Results by OMS Webmaster

David Hathaway in Lane 3 and the sunshine spotlight as he is about to launch — Winter in Oregon can be long, gray, cold, and wet with very little sunshine throughout most of the state. Some Oregon Masters swimmers have discovered that there is an amazing event in southern California that not only provides a chance to escape the dreary winter weather in Oregon and get […]

Stiff Competition and Sunny Warm Days in SoCal

December 17, 2016 in Uncategorized by Matt Miller

Rebecca Kay Age: 70; Workout Group: Rogue Valley Masters; Ashland, OR I got a late start in competitive swimming – I was 32 when I participated in my first USMS Nationals in 1978, and actually back then it was known as USA/AAU Masters Swimming. I learned how to swim from […]

Swimmer Spotlight: Rebecca Kay

December 17, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Denise Stuntzner