Leading Off – President’s Report 1 Editor’s Note 2 Dorothy Donnelly Award Recipient 2 5K and 10K Postal Swim 2 PNA Board Members 3 Club and Team Development Chair 4 2017 World Masters Championships 5 Sink or Swim – Greta Perales 6 Board Meeting Highlights 7 End the Week with a Bang 8 Mark Powell swam the Duwamish 9 SAM Swim to Florida 10 Bosphorus Crossing 2015 11 T-shirt Mania 11 Last Gasp of Summer Open Water Swim 14 Open Water High Point Awards 15 Welcome New Swimmers/Teams 16 Gordon Gray Passes 17 Masters Calendar 18 2015 PNA & NW Zones SCM Champs 19 U.S. Masters Swimming in Western Washington Volume 35, Issue 6 Pacific Northwest Association of Master Swimmers November-December 2015 The WetSet Nov-Dec 2015 October 30, 2015 - Cheerio! September found me in England’s countryside walking along the River Thames near Windsor and Runnymede. This far west of London, the river was less than 100 yards wide and occupied by a few low and flat sightseeing boats and geese swimming from bank to bank seeking their next meal by the murky water. I didn’t have time to splash into a pool, lake, or river, on that trip which was at the end of the open water swimming season back home in the Pacific Northwest. It was another successful year for open water swimming. We have over 400 open water swimmers race in PNA events, which is one-quarter of our membership, and we also had a successful transition of the Fat Salmon swim to its current organizers along with new – or at least newly recognized as USMS sanctioned – swims at Lake Padden for the Ally Fell Memorial Open Water Invitational and the Swim Defiance race at the Point Defiance park by Tacoma’s Commencement Bay. With autumn arriving, it is time for many of us outdoor swimmers to head back to the pool and in less than three weeks we have the PNA and NW Zone Short Course Masters Championships at the King County Aquatic Center. The registration deadline is coming up fast on November 15. It is a great opportunity to compete and have fun with races that will seem just a teeeeny bit longer. The PNA local Masters swimming committee met on October 24 and while we will soon publish the full meeting minutes to swimpna.org, I do want to mention that we decided to form a subgroup that will study the feasibility of PNA hosting a national championship meet at the King County Aquatic Center. Many of the people in the subgroup already volunteer on the PNA board, but we also hope to include your perspective. If you would like to be part of this process, please email us through the links at swimpna.org/w/PNA/contact/. This meeting was also the annual meeting, and like any other PNA board meeting it is open to our members, though for the annual meeting we make a special outreach because the meeting includes a workshop segment where we sketch out initiatives for the coming year. Next year we may alter this format to make the meeting more accessible, aka convenient, for our members to attend and learn more about the organization and the volunteers we all depend on for our local swimming experiences. Cheers and I hope you enjoy this edition of the Wet Set! – Mike Grimm President’s Report–Leading Off by Michael Grimm, PNA President 1
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Leading Off – President’s Report 1 Editor’s Note 2 Dorothy Donnelly Award Recipient 2 5K and 10K Postal Swim 2 PNA Board Members 3 Club and Team Development Chair 4 2017 World Masters Championships 5 Sink or Swim – Greta Perales 6 Board Meeting Highlights 7 End the Week with a Bang 8 Mark Powell swam the Duwamish 9 SAM Swim to Florida 10 Bosphorus Crossing 2015 11 T-shirt Mania 11 Last Gasp of Summer Open Water Swim 14 Open Water High Point Awards 15 Welcome New Swimmers/Teams 16 Gordon Gray Passes 17 Masters Calendar 18 2015 PNA & NW Zones SCM Champs 19
U.S. Masters Swimming in Western Washington Volume 35, Issue 6
Pacific Northwest Association of Master Swimmers November-December 2015
The WetSet Nov-Dec 2015
October 30, 2015 - Cheerio! September found me
in England’s countryside walking along the River
Thames near Windsor and Runnymede. This far west
of London, the river was less than 100 yards wide
and occupied by a few low and flat sightseeing boats
and geese swimming from bank to bank seeking their
next meal by the murky water. I didn’t have time to
splash into a pool, lake, or river, on that trip which
was at the end of the open water swimming season
back home in the Pacific Northwest.
It was another successful year for open water
swimming. We have over 400 open water swimmers
race in PNA events, which is one-quarter of our
membership, and we also had a successful transition of
the Fat Salmon swim to its current organizers along
with new – or at least newly recognized as USMS
sanctioned – swims at Lake Padden for the Ally Fell
Memorial Open Water Invitational and the Swim
Defiance race at the Point Defiance park by Tacoma’s
Commencement Bay.
With autumn arriving, it is time for many of us
outdoor swimmers to head back to the pool and in less
than three weeks we have the PNA and NW Zone
Short Course Masters Championships at the King
County Aquatic Center. The registration deadline is
coming up fast on November 15. It is a great
opportunity to compete and have fun with races that
will seem just a teeeeny bit longer.
The PNA local Masters swimming committee met
on October 24 and while we will soon publish the full
meeting minutes to swimpna.org, I do want to mention
that we decided to form a subgroup that will study the
feasibility of PNA hosting a national championship
meet at the King County Aquatic Center. Many of the
people in the subgroup already volunteer on the PNA
board, but we also hope to include your perspective. If
you would like to be part of this process, please email
us through the links at swimpna.org/w/PNA/contact/.
This meeting was also the annual meeting, and like
any other PNA board meeting it is open to our
members, though for the annual meeting we make a
special outreach because the meeting includes a
workshop segment where we sketch out initiatives for
the coming year. Next year we may alter this format to
make the meeting more accessible, aka convenient, for
our members to attend and learn more about the
organization and the volunteers we all depend on for
our local swimming experiences.
Cheers and I hope you enjoy this edition of the Wet
Set! – Mike Grimm
President’s Report–Leading Off by Michael Grimm, PNA President
each other to push through it. This is the greatest
part of being part of a Masters team. You end up
doing stuff together you would never do
individually.
Here’s the set:
(repeat four times)
200 on 2:40
150 FASTER on 2:10
100 HARD on 1:40
50 ALL OUT on 1:10
If you’d like to One-Up this set, we are all ears!
Powell, director of Puget Sound programs for the
Washington Environmental Council, a nonprofit
environmental group, said he got the idea to swim
the river in part because he didn’t know that much
about it, even where the river begins. He decided to
swim it top to bottom, “to find the river’s heart.” In
the end Powell, 57, swam 55 miles of the river’s
length in a series of 18 swims. He skipped the river’s
whitewater stretches and where it is off-limits to
protect the city of Tacoma’s water supply…
The WetSet Nov-Dec 2015 9
End the Week -continued from page 8
Mark Powell swam the Duwamish Seattle’s only river and home to an ongoing
Superfund cleanup, finishing up a 55-mile adventure. Courtesy of Lynda V. Mapes. See link for full article: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/man-swims-55-miles-of-
duwamish-river-finds-its-still-alive//
From Elliott Bay, where the fresh and saltwater
imperceptibly mix, Mark Powell walked ashore
Wednesday, ending a journey of discovery
swimming the Duwamish River, from the mountains
to the sea.
Along the way he swam through schools of pink
salmon. Saw a bobcat, three mink, three otters and
an eagle. A shopping cart, a desk, a soccer ball, a
bicycle, a washing machine and lots and lots of soda
and beer cans. Yet, Powell said, dripping in his wet
suit and just out of the water, “A lot of people think
the Duwamish River is just a sacrifice zone. But the
*PNA has not sanctioned or recognized these events
PNA Board Meeting
Federal Way, WA
Lisa Dahl's, Shoreline
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
September 15,2015
PNA Board Meeting
Via conference Call
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat, Oct 24, 2015
PNA Board Meeting/Retreat
Sally Dillon, Issaquah
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
December 8, 2015
PNA Board Meeting/Potluck
Arni Litt's, Seattle
18 The WetSet Nov-Dec 2015
2015 PNA & NW Zones SCM Championship Meet Saturday November 21st and Sunday November 22nd, 2015
Hosted by Puget Sound Masters Sanctioned by PNA for USMS Inc. #365-S008
LOCATION: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, 650 SW Campus Drive, Federal Way, WA 98023 206-296-4444
FACILITY: 50-meter championship pool set up as two 25m courses, each with 9-ft wide lanes and a water depth range of 9’-10.5’ Continuous warm-up available in 7-lane, 25-yd dive tank. The length of the competition course is in compliance and on file with USMS in accordance with articles 105.1.7 and 107.2.1, but as a bulkhead course, is subject to length confirmation. Eligibility of times for USMS Top 10 and Records will be contingent on verification of bulkhead placement.
TIMES: Saturday, Nov 21: Warm-up 9:00-9:50am, meet starts 10 am Sunday, Nov 22: Warm-up 9:00-9:50am, meet starts 10 am
CONCESSIONS: Vendor contracted with KCAC, available in lobby.
RULES: Current USMS rules will govern the meet. Strictly forbidden: Using hand paddles, fins or kick boards in warm-up areas; Diving in warm-up areas unless in designated sprint lanes.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all 2015 USMS or foreign registered swimmers 18 and above as of 11/22/2015. Age groups based on the swimmer’s age as of 12/31/2015. 18-24, 25-29… and up in 5-yr increments
ENTRIES: Swimmers may enter up to 6 individual events, 5 individual events/day max. Entries must be received by Sunday Nov 15, 2015 11:59 PM (Pacific Time).
NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED AFTER SUNDAY NOV 15TH, 2015 11:59 PM (PACIFIC TIME)
SEEDING: Two courses will be used for the 800 Free, 400 Free, 1500 Free. A single course will be used for all other events. All events slow to fast. Pre-seeding except for asterisked events, below.
CHECK-IN: Saturday: 800 Free – 9:30am; 400 IM – 10am; Sunday: 400 Free – 9:30am, 1500 Free – end of Event #39. Swimmers missing the check-in deadline will be scratched from the event.
RELAYS: Age groups: 72- 99, 100-119, 120-159, 160-199, 200-239, 240-279, … (40-year increments as high as necessary). The aggregate age of the four relay team members determines the relay age group. Mixed relays require two men and two women. Relay entries due as follows:
#11-#14: by the end of event #4,
#21-#23: by the end of event #12,
#33-#37: by the end of event #26,
#44-#46: by the end of event #35
AWARDS: Ribbons for individual places 1 – 6. Medals may be purchased at meet. Plaques will be awarded for PNA team awards.
SCORING: Scoring will be 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for Individual Events and 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 for Relay Events
ORDER OF EVENTS:
Saturday, November 21 Sunday, November 22
50m, 100m and 200m events: order is Women, then Men
Warm Up 9am Meet Start 10am
Warm Up 9am Meet Start 10am
1 800 Free - Mixed * 24 400 Free - Mixed *
2 400 IM -Mixed * 25/26 200 IM - W/M
3/4 50 Breast - W/M 27/28 100 Back - W/M
5/6 100 Fly - W/M 29/30 50 Free - W/M
7/8 200 Free - W/M 31/32 200 Breast - W/M
9/10 100 IM - W/M Break 5 minutes
Break 5 minutes 33/34 W/M 200 Medley Relay
11/12 W/M 200 Free Relay 35 Mixed 400 Free Relay
13 Mixed 800 Free Relay 36/37 W/M 800 Free Relay
14 Mixed 400 Medley 38/39 50 Back - W/M
15/16 100 Breast - W/M 40/41 200 Fly - W/M
17/18 200 Back - W/M 42/43 100 Free - W/M
19/20 50 Fly - W/M Break 5 minutes
Break 5 minutes 44/45 W/M 400 Free Relay
21/22 W/M 400 Medley Relay 46 Mixed 200 Medley
23 Mixed 200 Free Relay 47 1500 free - Mixed *
* Positive Check-In Required
ENTRY FEES: $35.00 (US or Canadian) includes LMSC surcharges. PLUS $3 per individual event (optional for seniors and needs-based swimmers). No charge for relays. Fees include WA state sales tax.
ONLINE ENTRIES: Enter online at: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1534&smid=6393
DIRECTIONS: From North or South Bound I-5 take exit 142 B. Proceed west on South 348th St for 2 miles. South 348th changes to SW Campus Dr. at 1st Ave. The pool is on the right.
PAPER ENTRIES: Complete this form, and waiver on following page for a paper entry.
NAME: _______________________________________________ M F AGE: _______