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Daily Archives: September 22, 2017

by Claudia Daly As temperatures rose during the last weekend of August, world and zone records fell at the 2017 Gil Young Memorial Meet held at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham. One hundred seven swimmers from 33 teams competed in the last long course meet of summer. The athletes […]

World Records Set All Three Days at 2017 Gil Young ...

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Meet Summary / Records / Relays / Results by OMS Webmaster

Located halfway between Lakeside and Reedsport on the central Oregon coast, is Eel Lake, which is named for its shape, not its residents. The final swims of the 2017 Oregon open water series took place at Eel Lake on an unseasonably cool and damp mid-summer morning, Sunday Aug 13th. The […]

2017 Central Coast Swims at Eel Lake

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Long Distance / Open Water / Results / Results Summary by Carolyn DeMarco

I had the pleasure of serving as Oregon’s Head National coach this year for the second time (first time was in 2015 at Spring Nationals). What a great meet the 2017 USMS Summer Nationals was for Oregon swimmers! There were 20 Oregon swimmers who made the trip to Minneapolis, and […]

Oregon Swimming at 2017 USMS Summer Nationals in Minneapolis

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Meet Summary / Records / Relays / Results by Matt Miller

Born in Inglewood, California, on August 8, 1921, she was the fifth and youngest child of Louis Stanton Williams and Bula Myrtle. Louis was a sign painter and Bula was a psychologist. Esther Williams, sometimes called “America’s Mermaid,” helped popularize synchronized swimming through a string of hugely popular films in […]

Esther Williams, “America’s Mermaid”

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Memories / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Tim Waud — As summer comes to an end, it’s time to look back at all of the amazing things Oregon Masters Swimming and its membership has done this past year. Events held in 2017: Oregon City SCM Dual Sanction Swim Meet March Adult Learn-to-Swim, programs were held at Hood River, Corvallis, and […]

Chair’s Corner – September 2017

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Chair's Corner by Tim Waud

September is the month of new schedules, new habits, new routines. It is the perfect time to adopt the habits of the perfect fitness swimmers. First and foremost, you need to set up your weekly swimming schedule. It needs to be a minimum of three times a week. Once this […]

Habits of the Fitness Swimmers

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Fitness / Health / Motivation by Colette Crabbe

Tim Waud — Fartlek is a type of training where you do long, straight swimming interjected with random bursts of speed. Some of you might also recognize this type of training with “speed play.” Many of us maximize our fitness level with the energy systems: aerobic, anaerobic threshold, and sprinting. During those long […]

Fartlek Training

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Coach's Chair / Coaching / Training by Tim Waud

Long Distance Swimming — Let’s chat about Fall Postal Swims. As a coach, I always like to plan comprehensively, looking ahead to provide long-term benefits to my swimmers. Here are three postal swims that you can use THIS FALL to help you prepare for future events, along with ways that I—always a coach—plan to […]

Long Distance Swimming – September 2017

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Long Distance by Bob Bruce

Records and Results Links

Records & Links to Results

September 22, 2017 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Records / Results by OMS Webmaster