Swimming for Life

Yearly Archives: 2020

Bob Bruce — Open Water 2020 review: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we hosted no sanctioned open water events this year. With most pools closed and/or on restricted schedules, many OMS members took to various open water venues for less-formal training swims, virtual swims, and adventure swims. 2021 preview Oregon Open Water Race […]

Long Distance Swimming – January 2021

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / ePostals / Long Distance / Open Water by Bob Bruce

Jeanna Summers — This is a little article about open water swimming. And we’ll start right off acknowledging that open water swimming is NOT for everyone. You know who you are. You don’t like weeds, fish, mud, and murky water. There are others of us who consider it just another version of the […]

OPEN WATER SWIMMING, SUMMER 2020

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water / Open Water / Training by Jeanna Summers

Do you have New Year’s resolutions? You hit the ground like a bull New Year’s Day, then 2 weeks later, the inspiration slowly fades behind the layers of distraction, and, by February, most are fully reverted, with New Years a distant memory. A good background to begin this story, about […]

Janette and Alan’s Odyssey

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Fitness / Health / Motivation / Nutrition by Aqua Master Editor

Colette Crabbe - 1976 Olympian in the 400IM and 200 breast — One of the many qualities of the swimmer is being strong and resilient. Especially if you are a long distance and an open water swimmer, your resilience has already been tested more than once by the rough and always changing conditions in the open water. The pandemic is definitively testing […]

2020 did, and 2021 Will Test Our Resilience

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Fitness / Health / Motivation by Colette Crabbe

The One-Hour ePostal can be done in any standard size pool 25 yards or longer; your distance will be converted to yards if needed. Someone times and counts lengths for each swimmer, writing the time per every two lengths on an official split sheet. Then the swimmer enters the ePostal […]

One-Hour Swim–ePostal

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Planning by Bob Bruce

USMS 5-10K ePostal

2020 U.S. Masters Swimming 5K & 10K Short Course ePostal

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Results by Matt Miller

Dick Hannula — Dick Hannula is the most successful high school swimming coach in Washington State ever. His teams at Wilson High School in Tacoma won 24 straight State Championships. Hannula coached at the Olympics and several times at the Pan-American games. He also sold swim suits which I used at Marshfield High […]

Swim Bits – January 2021

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Memories / Swim Bits by Ralph Mohr

Dick Hannula, now 91, talking with his team before a meet in 1983, won 23 consecutive state swimming championships, making him the most successful coach in Washington high-school history. (SEATTLE TIMES, 1983) — by Bud Withers — edited Seattle Times staff reporter May 23, 2006 What I remember of Dick Hannula is a guy standing on the pool deck at Wilson High wearing a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops. I think he had a whistle around his neck. He had a crew cut, and […]

Coach Dick Hannula: a Maker of Swimming Champions

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest by Aqua Master Editor

Thank You

Thank You – January 2021

December 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online by Aqua Master Editor