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GPY team at Applegate Lake — The Rogue Valley Masters are alive and well! In fact, so well, they won the small team state 1500m championship. RVM hosted the glorious Applegate Swim Series July 13-14. The open water 2.5k, 5k, 10k, 1500m, and pursuit relays allowed swimmers at many levels to participate. Todd Lantry was the […]

Applegate Lake Swim Series 2019

19 Aug, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Featured / Meet Summary by Laura Schob

by Dan Jones for the Medford Mail Tribune—used with permission The pool is a special place for Medford swimmers Aaron Ghiglieri and Mark Hageman. The former NCAA Division I athletes set state records at the Oregon Masters Swimming Championships in May, in Beaverton. The men were two of about 250 […]

Making Waves at Superior Athletic Club

19 Aug, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest by Aqua Master Editor

Willard "Wink" Lamb — I received a call yesterday (July 10) letting me know that Willard “Wink” Lamb will be inducted into the Masters International Swimming Hall of Fame (MISHOF) this year!!! This is an immense honor. I have been going back and forth with MISHOF trying to get a waiver of one of […]

Breaking News! – SOMA Swimmer Willard Lamb to be inducted ...

18 Jul, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Special by Matt Miller

Ginger Pierson — Editor’s note: Up to the time of this writing, Ginger had set eight of the nine available Pentathlon records in her current age group (70-74), and her goal was to get all 9 of those records. All she had to do was to legally complete the final necessary five swims, […]

…and then there were NINE

18 Jul, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Featured / Records by Ginger Pierson

The month of April has been proclaimed Adult Learn-to-Swim month by the governor of the State of Oregon. The Adult Learn-to-Swim program has been a great success throughout the United States. This was the third year that the program was offered at the Oregon City Municipal Swimming Pool. It is […]

ALTS in Oregon City

19 Jun, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured by Tim Waud

USMS has declared the month of April to be Adult-Learn-to-Swim month. So, the Oregon LMSC hosted three programs this year: in Hood River, Corvallis and Oregon City. Each of the reports that follow is written by those who worked in the various programs. Sandi Rousseau The Adult-Learn-to-Swim program in Hood […]

Adults are Learning to Swim in Oregon

18 Jun, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured by Aqua Master Editor

High-protein Diets: Trading Your Health for Temporary Weight Loss Once again, medical doctors and the paperback book industry advocating high-protein and fat-laden diets are grabbing the attention of millions of desperate people. “Lose 20 pounds in 30 days!” “Eat all the bacon you want and be thin as a breadstick!” […]

The Keto Diet Revisited High-protein Diets Explained

16 Apr, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Fitness / Human Interest / Motivation / Nutrition by Dr. John McDougall

David Radcliff, Margaret Toppell, Janet Gettling, and Willard Lamb — Ninety Masters swimmers signed up for the Oregon City SCM meet the weekend of March 9 and 10. Meet Director Tim Waud did an outstanding job of hosting this joint meet for USMS and USA swimmers. For some, this meet allowed them to compete alongside their children albeit in different […]

More World Records at Oregon City

17 Mar, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Featured / Meet Summary / Records / Relays by Arlene Delmage

Michelle Macy — International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Michelle Macy is to be an inductee (Honor Swimmer) into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in its Class of 2019. Michelle Macy has proven to have few limitations in marathon swimming in terms of distance and water temperature. Michelle set the overall […]

Marvelous Michelle Macy

17 Mar, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Aqua Master Editor