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Newsletter
March 6, 2009
by Tim Sheeper
In this edition:

Menlo Masters February Can-Do 2009 Results

Incredible.  Fantastic.  Unbelievable.  These are the words needed to express the way the Menlo Masters went about attacking the month of February.  Many more bellies in the senior citizen population of Menlo Park will be filled with food because of your swimming efforts. Congratulations.

Team Total Yardage Recorded-   11,710,675 yards (team record)
Team Total Miles-6888 Miles (team record)
Number of Swimmers Recording Yardage- 204 Swimmers (team record)
Most Yardage by an Individual-Martin Michael-264,000
Daily masters swimmer increase- 40 more swimmers on average per day.
Largest morning workout-63 swimmers
Largest noon workout-55 swimmers
Shortest period of time to achieve 50,000 yards-2 days
100,000 Yard Club-38 Swimmers (team record)
50,000 Yard Club-73 Swimmers
Cans Collected-TBD

Top 10
First Last      Yards
Michael Martin      264,000
Greg Gaffney      227,000
Nancy Lewis      220,600
Miki Armstrong    220,000
John Goldman      176,000
Sig Paulazzo     160,000
Mike Osmond      154,000
Joe Davis      150,000
Kenneth Fine      135,500
Audrey Ryder      134,000


100,000 Yard Club
Brett Bannan      126,200
Cara Barr      116,000
Ann Burton      101,000
Cynthia Dutro      100,400
Cathy Fitzgerald   101,000
Joan Gerber      100,000
Jan Gindra      100,000
Mitchel Johnson      108,600
Adam Kerr      100,650
Bill Kirsch      100,000
Denna Lin      100,500
Eduardo Llach      100,000
Scott Marshall      100,500
Jana Matena      106,800
Chris Maxwell      100,000
Karen Parks      100,000
Kenneth Plough      104,000
Leann Prescott     110,000
Frances Reneau      100,500
Karen Riley      103,750
Michele Santilhano   100,000
Kelly Sitts      102,500
Chris Smith      100,000
Chris Spetzler     100,100
Jeff Strnad      101,800
John Sulzbach     100,300
Keith Terada      106,200
Todd Valentic     110,800

50,000 Yard Club
Charles Anderson     50,100
Richard Antonchuk    57,000
Sergey Averchenkov  51,000
Dario Benavides    75,300
Donna Bijan      52,000
Shelby Blackburn    52,000
Bruce Bower      50,000
Marianne Brems       60,400
Mike Child      50,125
Edith Collin      50,100
John Collin      53,800
Kate Coulbourn    53,400
Blake Elder      51,300
Elspeth Farmer      50,000
Michael Fero      56,300
Kim Freitas      51,350
Tracy Fujieda      50,000
David  Greenwood     50,800
Linda Griffin      50,400
Nancy Prouty      57,400
Derrick Hansen      50,150
Edie Heideman     51,000
Robert Hubbell      60,000
Al Humphrey     52,000
Mary Jasek      50,000
Michelle  Kastelein  55,000
Rosa Katz      51,200
Chad Keck      50,200
Kirsten Kempe      59,300
Eric Kinney      50,050
Jeffrey Kline      64,500
Anna Lippi      77,250
Kathleen Liston      51,000
Tina Lount-Pretre 50,550
Gautam Makani      51,000
Lindi Marco      51,550
Dave Mandelkeron  50,150
Geoffrey McCavit     50,900
Amy McGauchey    52,300
Sue McGlennon    51,300
Patty McGraw      50,000
Michael Molano      52,400
Stephane Mouradian   55,000
Mirella Mozsgai      53,000
Joe Newman      55,000
Cathy Norton      52,200
Mark O'Sullivan   50,300
Chas Pavlovic     57,000
Annie Peterson     64,400
Rick Peterson     50,200
Joel Phillips     50,500
Sally Phillips     50,130
Tanja M Sattler      50,000
Jason Schroedi     52,350
Steve Schwanke     61,000
Judith Schwartz     56,900
Dana Hayse-Seeley 51,400
Altay Sendil      50,250
Lisa Sheeper      63,800
Lorie Sinnott      57,000
Sam Sinnott      53,000
Lorraine Sneed      50,000
Tod Spieker      66,950
Jeff Starr      56,300
Karen Stine      78,000
Judy Strauss      50,000
Mike Taylor      66,200
John Thompson     53,550
John Turk      50,500
Jane Walker      52,500
Angie Weinberger   50,000
Cindy Welton      52,500
Ana Williamson   50,700
Anne K Young      50,750


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Blue and Gold Meet

When:  This Saturday March 7
Time:  7-8:30am  (Fast and efficient, be ready to swim multiple times on short rest)
Where:  Here, Burgess Pool, lanes 1-8  lanes 9-11 for warm up and warm down
Registration:  None, just show up
Blue Team:  Everyone who swam 50,000 or more yards in February (the above list)
Gold Team:  Everyone who swam under 50,000 yards in February (tapered group)
Warm up or Work out:  6:00-7:00 am
Warm down relax:  8:30-9:00 am
Assistance needed:  Timers and recorders.   When you are not swimming please make yourself available to time or bring a friend or family member.
Need at least 8 people per race to time.
Events: (not in this order)
200 Free
200 Fin Kick
200 Relay
100 Free
100 IM
50 Fly
50 Back
50 Breast
50 Free


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Rinconada Spring Meet

When:  Saturday March 14, 2009

Where:  Rinconada Pool, Palo Alto

Why:  First real swim meet of the season.  Base line times and watching the 1650 Butterfly spectacle at the end of the meet.

Registration: http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09rincscy.pdf

You are also welcome to enter the meet when you arrive on the day, but you must be there at least 45 minutes before the start of your event, which is always a guess.

Who goes:  We traditionally have 15-25 people swim in this meet.  It is close and local and invaluable for those swimmers planning on going to Championships and Nationals this year.


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Pacific Masters Short Course Championships

When:  Friday-Sunday April 17-19, 2009

Where:  Pleasanton.  A wonderful 50 meter pool that has a men's course and a women's course along with a big pool for warm up and warm down.

Why:  This is the biggest meet of the year short of Nationals.  You will experience the depth and breadth of swimmers in our Northern California and Nevada region.  A must for swimmers preparing for USMS National in April

Goal:  Field 12+ relay times over the course of the 3 day meet.

History:  Menlo Masters has attended this meet 13 of the past 15 years.  We have placed as high as second and this year I am looking to have a minimum of 50 participants from our team spread out over the 3 day event.  We are big, strong and fast. I would like to go to Pleasanton and flex our muscles a bit.

Registration:  Get it done at:   http://wcm.mastersswim.com


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USMS Short Course Nationals

The 2009 Short Course Nationals are going to be held in Clovis, California, which is a short distance from Fresno.

Clovis has a long tradition of being a very strong swimming community and is excited to host the fastest masters swimmers in the nation this coming May.  The meet is held over 4 days from May 7-10.  Menlo Masters will be there.

The meet is open to all masters swimmers regardless of ability level or age.  Each swimmer is allotted 3 swims without qualifying times.  To swim more events qualifying times must be achieved. 

Registration: By April 9 at: http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/


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Swimmers of the Year

John Sulzbach is our Male Swimmer of the Year.
John has been a part of Menlo Masters in some form or another since 1991.  He is an avid workout swimmer and swim meet competitor, usually scoring many USMS top ten times in the sprints and IM events.  John is a perennial favorite in all of our intramural endeavors, and to top it off John pulls off the pool covers every single morning year round.

Sandy Dutro is our Female Swimmer of the Year.
Sandy is a veteran member of Menlo Masters and is usually one of our top three point scorers at swim meet and a perennial age group winner at open water events.  Sandy is a swimming addict who frequents the morning 7 am workouts and all of our in-team competitions.  She is a positive force to those in the level 3 and 4 lanes where she hangs out for about 5 hours of each week.


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Wanted-Team Statistician

After almost two decades, Judy Strauss, has finally decided to allow someone else on the team to take on the venerable position of team statistician.  Judy has been a fantastic asset to the team and I would like to thank her for all her time, efforts and ground breaking work  in compiling our team records, open water points, meet results, swim the cycle records, and any other avenue that dealt with numbers and rankings.  If there is anyone out there who would be interested in taking on the role, Judy is ready to train and get you up to speed very quickly.  Please let me know


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Performances of the Year

1. Mike Fero-Solo crossing of the Catalina Channel-22 miles
2. Peter Attia-Solo double crossing of the Maui Channel-22 miles
3. Enough said about that!


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Swim the Cycle

Who in the in their right mind wants to swim all 17 available swim meet events in one year?
Well, talk to our two stalwarts about it:
1. Jana Matena
2. Peter Shepherd


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Coaches Thank You

Judy, Rick and I would like to thank the team for the generosity displayed towards our coaches gifts this year.  Like always, the power of the team exceeds our expectations in every possible way.

I do not know about the other coaches, but I am going to use my windfall to "steal-away" from the team for a few days real soon.  It's not that I am not enjoying the cold and rainy mornings with everybody, I just want to see what else is going on out there in the big world.  Thanks.


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