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Scott Kerr from Emerald Aquatics along with Steve Johnson, are hosting a clinic with Olympian Josh Davis. Josh, who is a 2x Olympian, 5x Medalist and Team USA Captain, is excited to share his 30 years of racing knowledge with the Oregon Masters! Also, to teach for the first time […]

Oregon Masters Olympian Swim Camp

July 17, 2021 in Announcements / Aqua Master Online / Clinics / Education / Events / Featured by Matt Miller

Bob Bruce — Oregon Masters member Bob Bruce has received this year’s Captain Ransom J. Arthur M.D. Award, U.S. Masters Swimming’s most prestigious award for volunteers. “Bob has worked tirelessly and with professional vigor for the past 23 years on every level within U.S. Masters Swimming,” Oregon Masters member Tim Waud wrote in […]

Congratulations Bob Bruce

June 9, 2021 in Announcements / Aqua Master Online / Awards / Awards / Events / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Joe Oakes — Long ago Brother Lucas, my high school physics teacher told me that I would weigh less if I were standing on top of the tallest peak in the Andes than I would if I were standing in Death Valley. He explained that every object in the universe exerts a pull […]

Freed By The Moon

June 9, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Joe Oakes

by Ashlynne’s mother This little girl is my daughter, Ashlynne, and she has been my running buddy since age 3. She ran her first 5k a week or two after she turned 4, and has run several since. A few weeks before her 5th birthday we ran another 5k. She […]

Ashlynne: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

April 17, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest by Aqua Master Editor

by Gary Emich* Fall 2004 — A Quarterly Publication of the South End Rowing Club It is NOT my fault! It’s one of those dreary drizzly December nights & I’m lying in bed reading before “lights out” when I come across the following excerpt from Outside Magazine: “The goal had […]

4 in 1 – the Enchainment

April 17, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Aqua Master Editor

Marcie Adelman standing on a busy street in Taipei — Marcie Adelman, 55 Stafford Hills Club Hello, Nǐhǎo,你好, I am writing this from my new home away from home in Taipei, Taiwan. I arrived in Taiwan on January 18th, with my husband Dave, who will be working here for the next four years. It has been an interesting experience to […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Marcie Adelman

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Featured / Human Interest / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

Little Brewster Island Lighthouse — We all know that the oldest and most famous marathon run in the USA is the Boston Marathon. The 26 mile-365-yard race starts in the small town of Hopkinton and finishes in downtown Boston. It has been contested annually on Patriots Day since April, 1897. Every year thousands of men […]

The Boston Light Swim

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Joe Oakes

Elmer Burton Humphrey — by Elmer Humphry Editor’s Note: When I talked with Elmer at Costco he said he wanted to send me some material on the Green Dragons, and asked for my address. I wrote it on a product wrapper in his shopping cart. A letter arrived a few days later telling more […]

More “Green Dragons”

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Memories / Special by Aqua Master Editor

I have suffered from asthma since the 5th grade. Now, at 50 years of age, I reflect on everything I endured with asthma: tubes placed in my ears as a kid, missing a semester in my freshman year due to pneumonia, bronchitis, and ear infections, and I had been continually […]

Karla: My Asthma Journey

February 18, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Health / Human Interest / Special by Aqua Master Editor