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Articles about swimmers’ biographies

MJ at the Hearst Castle Pool — Name: MJ Caswell Age: 61 Career: retired/part-time swim coach Team: Columbia Gorge Masters I started swimming when I was 10 for the Swim Team of Placentia in California. I loved it, and have lifelong friends from swimming there. I also swam in college at UC Irvine. I swam only occasionally […]

Swimmer Spotlight – MJ Caswell

April 28, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

Ginger Pierson with her dog Mr. Miyagi — Name: Ginger Pierson Age: 76 Occupation: Retired PE/Math Teacher, Evergreen School District, Vancouver, WA Local Team: OCT (Oregon City Tanker) I was born in 1946 in Seattle, WA, and have one younger brother. When I was a baby, my parents were very nervous when I was around water. I crawled, […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Ginger Pierson

March 28, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Arlene Delmage

Name: Kermit Yensen Age: 68 Local Team: Central Oregon Masters Aquatics (COMA) Thanks to Karen for the opportunity to think back on the people and decisions connected with my swimming career to date; it has been fun. Swimming started for me with lessons at age 5 or 6. This […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Kermit Yensen

February 24, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

Michael Collins and his sister, Kristin Galbreaith, at the end of the 2019 Portland Bridge Swim — Name: Michael Collins Age: 59 (FINA 60) Occupation: Software Applications Architect at Oregon Department of Justice Local Team: Salem Kroc Masters (KAM) I started practicing with the Kroc Masters Swimming group in Salem almost exactly 10 years ago after realizing I’d vastly overestimated my swim speed in entering the […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Michael Collins

January 20, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Arlene Delmage

John, exploding off the block at the 2016 Masters LCM Nationals held at Mt Hood Community College — Name: John McComish Age: 55 Team: Stafford Hills Masters Work: Xerox Corporation, Graphic Communications Sales Why Water? My best dreams from an early age are of flying and maneuvering effortlessly up and around the ground below. I would soon discover swimming along the rocky shores of Lake Tahoe, or […]

Swimmer Spotlight – John McComish

December 29, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

Name: Jessica Stacy Age: 32 Occupation: Creative Director, Self-Employed Local Team: MAC – Multnomah Athletic Club My relationship with water — and eventually, swimming in it — has been fluid throughout the years. It began as a hate more than a love kind of relationship. I grew up in […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Jessica Stacy

October 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Arlene Delmage

Vicky blasting off the block as a teenager — Name: Vicky Buelow Age: 40 Occupation: Public Health Data & Policy Analyst Team: Oregon Reign Masters I grew up on the eastside of Seattle and started swimming around 3 or 4 years old. My parents say they noticed my love for the water when we made our yearly family vacation […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Vicky Buelow

September 20, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

“Swimmer Spotlight” on Art Noxon, in the September 2021, issue. Art wrote that he was DQd for doing three strokes of “back fly”. We edited it to read that he did three strokes of “double-arm backstroke“. That gave the wrong impression of what he really did. Double-arm backstroke implies that […]

Correction to September 2021 AquaMaster

September 20, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Aqua Master Editor

Name: Dan Jorgensen, 53 Team: Multnomah Athletic Club Masters Profession: VP of Sales, S.R. Smith LLC (Swim Pool Deck Equipment Manufacturer) The Oregon Masters swim community has been fortunate to have several Olympians return to pool competition after years away – Dan Jorgensen being the most recent, returning in […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Dan Jorgensen

July 17, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Spotlight by Matt Miller