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Lake Tahoe -- The Crew (from left) - Tom Linthicum (boat Captain), Sara Shepherd (kayak support), Christian Tujo (EPIC SWIMMER), Lee O'Connor (EPIC SWIMMER) & Trevor Williams (kayak support) — Swimming the length of Lake Tahoe takes skill, determination and a good support team. Christian Tujo and Lee O’Connor had just that, plus some extra brownies and a persistent seagull that stuck with them for at least 8 miles! In all seriousness, this was one EPIC swim and I was […]

Swimming the Length of Lake Tahoe

October 16, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Long Distance / Open Water by Sara Shepherd

Rick Howell--Kelso High School Awards Banquet 1977 — Name: Rick Howell Age: 61 Team: SOMA del Norte (aka SOMA Vancouver) Occupation: Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for People and Performance, Business Consultant; and Professor at WSU Vancouver Take the Plunge with Rick! There are so many great swimmers in our area: National Champions, World Record Holders, and Olympians! I […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Rick Howell

October 16, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

Vicki Roe at Squaw Lake — by Erika Schumacher On Saturday, August 29, five SOMA swimmers met at Lake of the Woods for an open water swim. The group met in the morning and swam about 1.5 miles with Mt. McLoughlin in the backdrop. Some SOMA swimmers began swimming open water in May while the pools […]

Open Water Swimming in southern Oregon

September 25, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured by Aqua Master Editor

Jayette Pettit (yellow cap) and Suzy Jajewski — Name: Jayette Pettit Age: 53 Occupation: Retail Store Manager for The Real Mother Goose Gallery at PDX(started in 1991 – soon to be unemployed) Local Team: Southern Oregon Masters Aquatics (SOMA)- Jayette lives in Vancouver, WA, but swims with SOMA because of their participation in open water events. I was […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Jayette Pettit

September 25, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Featured / Human Interest / Spotlight by Arlene Delmage

Eel Lake swimmers— left to right: two unknown swimmers, Helen Slack Miller, Arianna Elnes, Laura Schob, Dave Radcliff, Mike Carew, Ed Ramsey — It was not planned. After the Eel Lake OMS Open Water Swims were cancelled this summer, despite Matt Miller’s constant attempts to get the Oregon Parks Department to change their mind, local swimmers on the Oregon coast continued to swim in near-by lakes. It turned out, though, there were numerous […]

Flash Mob at Eel Lake

August 24, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest by Ralph Mohr

Dara Torres -- fashion model — “I think this performance ranks up there with the biggest performances in sports ever … It puts Dara in the ranks of Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods.” — Michael Lohberg, Torres’ coach Early years Dara Torres was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 15, 1967, and grew […]

Dara Torres

August 24, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Motivation by Aqua Master Editor

Willard “Wink” Lamb keeping up with the times. — Colette Crabbe, Valerie Jenkins, and Arlene Delmage recently checked in on OREG swimmer Wink Lamb. We sat in their back yard on a beautiful August day and visited with Wink (97) and his son Doug (71). Things have not been easy during these COVID times and Wink has not been […]

Visit with Willard “Wink” Lamb

August 24, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Special by Arlene Delmage

Tim Waud — Hello Swim Family. We all know that Tim Waud has a wide variety of special gifts. When he does something he gives it his all, whether it is coaching, presiding over committee meetings, officiating, building teams, writing, running swim meets, making friends, caring for people, etc. There is one more […]

Amazing Tim, the Life Saver

July 17, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured by Jeanne Teisher

2019 OMS Summer Nationals Team photo — by Caitlin Daday 16 May 2020, 08:00am Racing. The feeling of racing–of getting up and giving everything–never gets old. Challenging yourself. You never know what you can do until you try, and athletes love being able to test themselves to see how far they can go. Even when they fail, […]

21 Things To Love About Swimming

June 12, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured by Aqua Master Editor