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Update
May 14, 2011
by Tasha Capen
In this edition:

**Coming Events**

1. *NEW* Menlo Masters 2011 Event: June 26 CSM LCM Meet
College of San Mateo recently announced they would hold a Founders Day LCM meet June 26. It's a great opportunity to practice swimming those few extra yards each race, and enjoy doing only half the turns! Online entries due June 22:
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/pool_meetsheet/11smaclcm.pdf

2. Pacific Masters LCM Championships, July 8-10, Santa Cruz - Online entries due July 1:
https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1510&smid=3032

Keep a lookout - the next update will include new team events.


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**Team Results**

- January 1-hour postal: Of the 50+ swimmers who participated in the hour swim at Burgess in January, 36 also entered their accomplishments online for the USMS postal contest. Those 36 swimmers collectively contributed 137,780 yards.

Congratulations to Murray McLachlan, who took top honors in his new age group with 4,080 yards. Five other swimmers ranked in the top 10 for their age group: John Sulzbach - #2, Mike Ingardia - #5, Bill Dawson - #6, Brett Bannan - #8, Lisa Sheeper - #9. Menlo Masters competed in the medium size club category (20-49 swimmers) placing 7th in total yards, and ranked 4th in yards per swimmer. Here are the swims Menlo Masters turned in:

Thomas Anderson  4325
Brett Bannan     4960
Bob Carlin       3740
Stephanie Couch  4475
Bill Dawson      4235
Zelikha Dost     3335
Leonard Dulski   2750
Sandy Dutro      3620
Louise Feeley    4025
Jean Gillon      3400
Meredith Gimble  2700
Lennard Hachmann 3800
Jeffrey Hewitt   4380
Michael Ingardia 5200
Virginia Justus  3590
Scott Kaloust    4325
Kirsten Kempe    3935
Jeffrey Kline    4810
Chrissie Kremer  3100
Anna Lippi       3070
Scott Marshall   4490
Jana Matena      4485
Murray McLachlan 4080
Michael Moran    3200
Carl Mortensen   3550
Robert Schreier  3750
Judith Schwartz  4080
Lisa Sheeper     4685
Peter Shepherd   3090
Karen Stine      3240
Judy Strauss     3730
John Sulzbach    3400
Gary Swart       4100
Michael Texido   4050
Leigh Wade       3050
Meg Whitman      3025

- Blue, Gold and Red Meet, April 2: As always, our intrasquad meet drew a great crowd of swimmers, competing for honors in both participation and shoe donations.  The Blue team (last names A-K), led by Swimmer of the Year Barbara Jones, took top honors for most swims by the team. The Gold team (last names M-Z), with Swimmer of the Year Carl Mortensen at the helm, dominated the shoe donation competition. As always with team events that benefit our community, ALL were winners - we had fun with our teammates,practiced racing and got a great workout, and over 130 homeless children in the Bay Area will have new shoes to wear for the next school year!  Thank you to all swimmers and shoe donors, with a big thank you to Doug Vort for his $500 contribution. Also, a special thank you to Timi Most for championing My New Red Shoes and arranging all the shoe donation logistics.

 Total swims:  Blue - 177, Gold - 137
 Total shoes:  Blue - 60, Gold - 72, Community - 5

- Pacific Masters SCY Championships: Great weather led to a great meet with great swims by Menlo teammates! 16 swimmers turned in over 90 individual and relay swims during the three days in Pleasanton. We had solid Menlo competitors in all age groups from 40-44 up to 75-79. And we had both Eduardo Llach and Peter Shepherd in pool competition for this meet - great to have them back. Swimmers worked hard in their races, then socialized and cheered for one another in between.  Always a relaxing way to get away for a weekend! Some highlights of the meet:
  - 10 individual and 1 relay team records were broken: John Sulzbach (3), Sandy Dutro (2), Judith Schwartz (2), and one each for Louise Feeley, Barbara Breen and Karen Levy
  - Dave Gildea had three 1st place finishes, Tasha Capen had two
  - Nearly half of the swims (41) were top 3 finishes
  - John Sulzbach, Sandy Dutro, Judith Schwartz and Dave Gildea swam a Menlo record-breaking 200 free relay for the 55+ age group; they broke the prior record by 5 seconds - held by a relay team both John and Sandy raced in six years ago!
  - Menlo Masters was ably represented by:
Barbara Breen    Tasha Capen     Richard Cottrell
Stephanie Couch  Sandy Dutro     Louise Feeley
Dave Gildea      Jean Gillon     Karen Levy
Eduardo Llach    Jana Matena     Judith Schwartz
Peter Shepherd   Kent Stietzel   Judy Strauss
John Sulzbach

- Notable SCY Swims: Menlo Masters swimmers have represented us well in other pool competitions this season.  Murray McLachlan swam a 1650 in a postal competition and turned in the fastest time ever for his age group in that annual competition - and set a new team record in the process. Six team members competed at the Bay Area Senior Games: Kathleen Barcos, Katy Basile, Richard Cottrell, Sandy Dutro, Dave Gildea and Suzanne Zebedee all turned in impressive swims - over half of the 24 swims were first place finishes; Sandy Dutro set a team record in the 50 breast. And USMS SCY Nationals were held in Mesa, AZ at the end of April. Barbara and Dave Breen, Jana Matena, Judith Schwartz and Judy Strauss represented us well with 18 individual swims and 1 relay.  Barbara set new team records in the 200 and 500 free, and Judith also set one in the 500 free.

Congratulations to all!

A summary of the SCY season swims is available:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B9UOxuTLNrE0ZmZjMGVkOTctODQ0MC00NGJjLTgzZDQtNDU0ZWY1ZGQ5OTIx&hl=en&authkey=CPHsvvMB


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**Menlo Masters Annual Challenges**

- Year-Rounder: swim 10,000 yards in a day at least once each month.
Thirteen people are 1/3 through the year!
Bob Carlin      Stephanie Couch Kathy Coulbourn
Louise Feeley   Kim Freitas     Dana Hayse
Kirsten Kempe   Adam Kerr       Deanna Lin
Ken Plough      Frances Reneau  Michele Santilhano
Kent Stietzel
Monitor their progress via Google doc:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtdguLaBiFTWdEZYQ09wNGJoUXNJcnVsWVhEVUwxNGc&hl=en#gid=1

- Million Yard Club: One of our teammates has already hit the million yard target for 2011!  In April Nicole Cadman, a dedicated lane 1 swimmer met - and passed - the mark. Two other swimmers are tracking their yards to join Nicole a little bit later this year: Kent Stietzel (653,850) and Roger von Oech (367,000).  They track their monthly progress in this Google doc:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtUOxuTLNrE0dFZJdXdFZ1dZZnF5Y0syUndLREdpcXc&authkey=CMGNosMD&hl=en#gid=0

- Swim the Cycle: Swim each of the 18 standard races for a pool meet, and you've swum the cycle! Twelve swimmers are over 1/3 of the way, and a few others are planning to get started. Five swimmers are past the 50% mark: Kent Stietzel has 4 more events left to complete, John Sulzbach (6), Sandy Dutro (7), Dave Gildea (8) and Stephanie Couch (9).

Questions about the Team Challenges?  Contact Tasha Capen


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**Menlo Masters Trans-Tahoe Teams**

In July, Menlo Masters is sending three 6-person teams to Lake Tahoe to compete in the high altitude, no wetsuit, 11.5 mile relay swim across the lake. Given the amount of snow this year, the teams are extra-intrepid to brave the likely colder-than-usual waters. The teams are listed below - don't be surprised if they invite you to join them in a practice cold water swim in the coming months!

- Circus of Menlo Dads Club (Men 240+)
 Bruce Bower
 Brady Enright
 Jeff Hewitt
 Paul Laustsen
 Duke Rohlen
 Mike Texido

- Shivering Timbers III (Men 300+)
 Tom Anderson
 Allan Anderson
 Phil Arcuni
 Bill Dawson
 Tim Sheeper
 Dave Tambling

- Mighty Menlo Mermaids (Women 240+)
 Tasha Capen
 Stephanie Couch
 Laura Legros
 Jana Matena
 Nancy Prouty
 Lisa Sheeper


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