THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE ILLINOIS MASTERS SWIMMING ASSOCIATION ILMSA Fall 2006 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTRAL MASTERS SWIMMING ASSOCIATION ILMSA Fall 2006

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3 Chat From The Chair 4 World championships 6 Big Shoulders 8 You know you’re competetive when... 9 See who swam a marathon Swimmers take off at the beginning of the Annual Big Shoulders 5k in downtown Chicago. 10 Gay Games recap 10 Have you met Mark Conlon? TEAM ILLINOIS TAKES ON THE WORLDS by Jane del Greco 10 Sue Welker, USMS coach of the year!

It had been 31 years since they last swam a relay together... 11 ILMSA semi annual meeting Full story on page 4 11 ILMSA long distance committee

LANE 1 YOU KNOW YOU’RE A COMPETETIVE MASTERS SWIMMER WHEN... 12 Shea Long Course Challenge recap

by AJ Block 13 Get your Team Illinois lapel pins You know you’re a competetive masters swimmer when you have enough items on 14 Evanston invite entry your list to fill an entire article. Thanks AJ! Full story on page 8 15 ILMSA officers LANE 2 BIG SHOULDERS by Marcia Cleveland th Design, layout and production This year’s 16 Big Shoulders 5K & 2.5K Swim Classic drew a field of 538 competitors from all over the USA. Full story on page 6 coordination by Alex Helfers / Editing and content coordination by Rebecca Keller LANE 3 PARTICIPATION, INCLUSION, AND PERSONAL BEST by Nadine Day

There were 11,500 athletes from 70 countries represented in the Gay Games. Photos in this issue by Phil Dodson, Swimming had over 10 percent of the athletes. Full story on page 10 Rebecca Keller and Mary Pohlmann

HAVE YOU MET...MARK CONLON? Meet Mark Conlon of the Beuhler Breakers. Full story on page 10

WHO SWAM A MARATHON? See who swam a marathon this summer! Full story on page 9 LANE 6 LANE 5 LANE 4 2

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Nadine in action

CHAT FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Fellow Illinois Swimmers, This will allow more swimmers to become involved in the organization. My goal will be to have at least one swimmer Wow, the summer has gone by fast. In June, we had the great from each team be represented on a committee. This will also opportunity of hosting the Gay Games in Chicago. We had over help with communication between the members. If you want 1000 Master swimmers swim in the first Masters meet held at to become involved in ILMSA, please e-mail me at NDAYPT at the University of Chicago. A special thanks to both the Chicago AOL dot COM. You can access both the current and proposed Smelts and the Chicago Riptides for showing the rest of the by-laws at www.ilmsa.com. We will discuss and vote on the athletes Chicago hospitality. proposed by-laws at our fall meeting on October 18th.

Then in August, Illinois Masters had 49 swimmers travel across In September, Illinois will have 10 swimmers (Mary Pohlmann, country to participate in the FINA Master’s World Championships Marcia Cleveland, Greg Weber, Barbara Delanois, Jennie Quill, and they represented Illinois Masters Swimming well. However, Phil Dodson, Fred Piggot, AJ Block, Robert Zeitner and me) at the local level, we only had two LCM meets; Park Ridge and representing ILMSA at the 2006 USMS Convention in Dearborn, Saluki-Carbondale meet. We had to cancel two meets due to Michigan. As we head to the convention, the main topic of lack of participation. I know that Masters Swimming isn’t all discussion will be online registration. about competition, but we need to support each other. Also, meets give swimmers goals to help motivate them to swim more. Keep on swimming…..Swimming for Life -Nadine KM Day, ILMSA President The ILMSA Board had a meeting in June where we revised the ILMSA by-laws and passed 5 new policies. 1) Waive membership dues for ILMSA swimmers over the age of 75 years that have been members of ILMSA for 2 years. 2) Waive membership dues for USMS Official with the approval of the Officials and Safety Committee 3) ILMSA will pay for 15 coaches to attend a coaches safety course 4) There will be a $25.00 expedited fee for registration. 5) The fee for lost cards is $5.00. 6) The fee for transferring is $5.00 (changed from $10.00) Under the proposed by-laws, we will have 15 ILMSA committees. 2 3 ILMSA

TEAM ILLINOIS TAKES ON THE WORLDS By Jane Del Greco, special thanks to Mary Pohlmann

World Class! The FINA Masters World Championships in said it all. The relay from Oregon with “Will Swim for Beer” Stanford, California was quite an experience! Two ten lane written down their arms were pretty geared to go. If they did 50 meter competition pools going non-stop morning until late well their coach had to buy (which is a motivational tool of which afternoon for seven days, plus two 25 meter warm up pools and a some of the Illinois coaches might take note). There were women huge diving well to boot. The weather was darned near perfect, swimming their first relay together since they were 14 years old-- with just a couple of cloudy mornings, but mostly clear 80 degree about 30 years ago, and a group of Canadian women bagged the days. The water was 78-79 degrees, just crisp when you hit it, and relays altogether taking the wine country tour instead. Everyone was treated with salt water instead of the chlorine we’re used to. knows rehydration is key after a good swim! The walls were straight-up; no gutters to grab on the open turns in butterfly and . Five thousand five hundred twenty- Best t- shirts: “Swim, Toto, Swim!” (from the Kansas City Waves), six swimmers 25 years old and up, from over 75 countries around “Old guys RULE!” , “My mom is making me swim- she’s in 85-89”, the world; all were there to follow their passion in the universal “We swim because we’re too sexy for a sport that needs clothes”, language of competitive swimming. More records were broken in “What HAPPENS in the pool, STAYS in the pool”, and “ I came for this meet than in any other Worlds. It was an amazing meet. the wine, I stayed to swim.”, and the everso sporty Team Illinois shirts were the sharpest on deck. The business part: Upon arrival swimmers were issued photo ID credentials to wear around their necks. The credentials bore Of course, watching fast swimming was the best and there were the event numbers they were swimming and status ie. swimmer, too many great races to mention. Olympic legends Gary Hall Sr., coach, or official. Swimmers were not allowed access to the pool , Josh Davis, and gave a good or deck on days they did not swim--and credentials were checked. show. Thirty-nine year old blasting a 25.98 for 50m Competitors would show up to the marshaling tent about seven free a mere 4 months after childbirth was truly a feat, and USMS heats before their race, sit in chairs in rows of ten, arranged in legends Richard Abrahams, Laura Val, and Illinois’ very own columns of five heats, and would take their places in the chairs Thomas Maine did not disappoint! The Stanford waters churned as the heats were called. If you didn’t show up in time, you would the entire week and announcer Mark Gill kept in step with the fast be scratched. Period. As one heat lined up behind the blocks pace in the pool. and was started, a new heat would march single file to take their place. Swimmers just finishing a race would stay in the water The results: Team Illinois Masters made a great showing on the until the next heat started and then would exit the pool as soon World stage setting two World records, and surpassing 8 World as the next group started (fly-over starts). Everything was pretty Championship meet records. They also set 4 USMS National well orchestrated, considering the number of entries in the meet, records, 35 individual ILMSA State records, one ILMSA relay and though they always ran over the timeline, the meet ran very record, and three subgroup (non-Team Illinois Masters) relay smoothly. records.

The fun part: Sitting in the marshaling area talking with fellow The stars: Thomas Maine set two World, meet and USMS National competitors from all parts of the world was pretty entertaining! records in the men’s 80-84 division in the 100 and 200 butterfly. The women running the marshaling area were upbeat and Maine broke two more meet and National records (200 breast and encouraging and did their best to calm nervous swimmers 400 IM) and set a total of six ILMSA records with the addition of with humor; they did a great job making everyone feel at home. his 50 splits in the breast and fly. Way to go, Thomas!!! Language was no barrier when it came to talking swimming. It Andrea (AJ) Block (women’s 45-49) bettered the FINA World was universal from the informal poll taken before 200 breast---NO Masters Championship meet records in the 50, 100, and 200 ONE LIKES 200 BREAST–in ANY language! “The third leg hurts” butterfly, winning the 100 fly. Ms. Block set new ILMSA records sounds pretty much the same in German, Italian, Portuguese or in the butterfly events and the 100 (split), 200, 400 (split) and 800 Japanese. Ditto for “Does this suit make me look fat?” and “Wow! meter freestyles. Jeffrey Lukens rounded out the Championship Did you see the guys in Italian men’s relay?–--very hot!” meet records with fast cruise down the pool in men’s 50-54 men’s The circus on the deck was pretty interesting as well. The ladies 100 backstroke, setting new ILMSA records in the 50, 100 and 200 from Brazil would change from their racing suits into thong bikinis meter backstrokes as well. ON the deck, much to the delight of some of the spectators. The deafening click-click-click of cell phone cameras from the stands 4 TL: Carrol Taggert works on her PR skills TR: Phil Dodson’s old college relay BL: Tom Maine with his medals BR: TIM 280+ mixed free relay

Top Three Place Medalists for Team Illinois were the following: Thomas Maine (3 firsts, one second, a third), Nadine Day (3 firsts COLLEGE ROOMMATES REUNITE AT WORLDS By Phil Dodson and a third), Andrea Block (one first, one second and one third), Jennifer Ridge (two second place finishes), Jeffrey Lukens (two seconds place finishes), Matt Keller (one second place finish) It had been 31 years since they last swam a relay together. Kelly Perry (one third place finish), and John Masters (one third For nearly two years Phil Dodson had cajoled, persuaded and place finish). Other Top Ten Medalists: Phil Dodson, Dan Furlan, motivated his two college roommates from Northwestern Charles Groen, Becky Heller, Chris Lutz, Kurt Moehlmann, Ryan University, Jeff Lukens and Scott Harris, to swim in the FINA Oleson, Mary Pohlmann, Hannelore Snyder, and George Villarreal. World Masters competition. To swim on relays together his two Congratulations to all who swam! Full results and times may former roommates joined Team Illinois and teamed up with Tom be easily accessed by going to www.2006finamasters.org and McCabe for the 200 free relay and with Boyd Black for the 200 clicking on “full results” on the right. Long Course ILMSA records medley relay. The relays finished th8 in the 200 free and 15th in are being updated at this writing and should be available soon. the 200 medley. Fun was the biggest winner of all as the college roommates hung out together during and after the meet downing The FINA World Championship meet was well worth the trip! beers and reminiscing about old (and faster) times. They had so There were great swims, interesting people, and innumerable much fun plans are already under way to repeat at Perth in 2009 cheers from the stands. Whether it was “Allez, allez”, “Pronto!”, nd or “Go, Gramma, Go!”, it was a whole lot of fun watching and when all age up to 55. PS: Jeff Lukens earned 2 place finishes in th swimming in such a beautiful venue. Anyone up for Perth, the men’s 50-54, 200 and 100 meter backstroke, 4 in 50 back and th Australia in April 2008?? 10 in 50 free; a fine addition to Team Illinois. 4 5 ILMSA

BIG SHOULDERS 2006 By Marcia Cleveland

This year’s 16th Big Shoulders 5K & 2.5K Swim Classic drew a field I’ve participated in Open Water races for nearly 20 years and this of 538 competitors from all over the USA. Held annually at Ohio one is always well-done. The added fun of being in a washing Street Beach in Chicago on the Saturday after Labor Day, the 5K machine for over an hour (a.k.a. Lake Michigan) gave all of us race was the year’s USMS National Open Water Championship. some challenges but sighting isn’t much of a problem, thanks to Overcast skies prevailed all day and the strong northern wind the looming boundaries of Chicago’s skyline. I had the fortunate created some sizeable 3-4’ chop at the usually placid Ohio Street experience of rounding the final bouy with “some guy” and Beach. But the triangular course was well-marshaled, the race matched him stroke for stroke on the way home. It was only after went off on time, and the waves were “fun” to ride. Before we we both crossed the finish line that Phil Dodson and I realized who knew it, we were recounting our race swims to one another our “swim partner” had just been for the last 800 meters! as we dried off on the beach. Event host Chris Sheean did a monumental job with arranging all the administrative details so The top finishers in the 5K were Jeff Erwin (42, Boise, ID 58:10) and that all the race events proceeded without a hitch. Swimmers Shannon Mingo (24, Bethesda, MD 1:02.34). The senior finishers in again used ankle timing chips but backup timers provided manual the 5K were Bob Beach (76, St. Petersburg, FL, 1:44:15) and Lynn times as we crossed the finish line “just in case.” Chicago Higgins (65, Riverside, IL, 2:30:34). Dan Projansky (48, Evanston, IL, Masters and the UIC Swim Team, led by Coach Paul Moniak, put 2:11:03) did the entire 5K BUTTERFLY. Based on the wave conditions forth a great effort in getting all of us into the water and they kept at this race, that’s QUITE an accomplishment! Congratulations to going and going until after the last medal had been awarded. the nearly 600 swimmers who participated in this Swim Classic. Mark your calendars for next year’s Big Shoulder event: Saturday And, of course, no Open Water swim would be complete September 8th. See you in the water! without a great post-race spread. The bananas, apples, bagels, and doughnuts were scoffed up faster than you could say “Big Shoulders”. We are also extremely fortunate to have had the national sponsorship of Amino Vital at several USMS events this year. There were boxes and boxes of Amino Vital “Prepare” and “Repair” energy bars, plus an endless supply of liquid supplements in both powder form and 20 oz. bottles. The generosity of Amino Vital was greatly appreciated by all competitors.

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YOU KNOW YOU’RE COMPETETIVE WHEN... By AJ Block typed by Molly Block

1 Every yard or meter counts when totaling up your daily workout or weekly mileage. 2 If practice ends on a 50 (3250) you feel compelled to swim another 50 to reach a 00 number (3300) to make it even. 3 You get annoyed when the swimmer behind you doesn’t take their full five seconds. 4 You get annoyed at swimmers who “sand bag” their seed times. 5 When you know all of your competitors splits and best times. 6 You’re friendly with your competitors. 7 When you are on a first name basis with the officials (Fred and Richard) 8 Awards are still important. 9 Meet ribbons are taken based on the honesty principle. 10 When you carry your Speedo backpack on a cart with wheels in order to decrease the odds of pulling a muscle in your back 11 You worry about blowing your taper while fighting to put on your full length body suit! 12 Your full length body suit feels like a sausage casing. 13 Matching your suit and cap is important and thought out ahead of time. 14 When you have really cool masters team shirts and names. 15 You can swim in a meet and still be home before your carpooling duties begin. 16 Pre-meet meals and rituals no longer exist nor matter. 17 Making plans for “rehydration sessions” at the bar are an integral part of your weekly post-practice schedule. 18 Your water bottle is filled with coffee instead of water or Gatorade. 19 You choose freely to go to practice. 20 When you have to bring your little kids to swim practice while you train or to a meet in order to race. 21 Bags of ice and tablets of ibuprofen are a standard part of your operating procedure. 22 When age truly matters. 23 Aging up is something to celebrate rather than dread. 24 Standing ovations are not just for record breaking swims but rather swims that are completed legally at any age. 25 When “respecting your elders” takes on a different meaning altogether. 26 The smell of chlorine is considered sexy! 27 USMS.org is your favorite website.

AJ Block swims butterfly at the FINA World Masters swimming championships 8 WHO SWAM A MARATHON THIS SUMMER?

Swimmers from around Illinois are swimming Marathons. That’s right, swimmers are swimming 26.2 miles in the Illinois Masters Swimming Association’s Inaugural Fitness Event “Summer 2006- I Swam A Marathon. What Did You Do?”. The Fitness Committee wanted to promote fitness events and thought why not swim marathons? It is easy enough to count up yards, convert to miles, and see how much everyone actually swims. Swimmers had the entire summer- May 1st to September 1st to complete the marathon.

Some swimmers far and exceeded the marathon for the summer. Some even swam the marathon in the month of May alone. All swimmers though deserve special recognition and as of the deadline for this newsletter, 46 swimmers had completed the marathon. Each will receive a t-shirt designed by Carrie Ohm of the Chicago Smelts.

Illinois Masters Marathon

Amy Snow, Decatur Swim Club Fay Beck, 1776- Delaware Valley LMSC Nadine Day, Central Illinois Masters Andrea Block, COHO Frank Plewes, Chicago Smelts Nancy Rice, Naperville Waves Barbara Delanois, Evanston Gregory Barton, Chicago Smelts Patrick Tibbs, Chicago Smelts Beth Capo, Jacksonville, Illinois Jessica Frank, Decatur Swim Club Paul Mittleman, Chicago Smelts Carrie Ohm, Chicago Smelts Jim Redmond, Good Sam Otters Peter Hepburn, Chicago Smelts Channing Greene, Chicago Smelts Jim Rowland, Libertyville Masters Richard Behrens, LINW Chris Layton, Chicago Smelts Kaleb Loosbrock, Chicago Smelts Ron Song, Chicago Smelts Cindy Strock, Saluki Masters Kenneth Shollenberger, Lincoln-Way Ross Patronsky, Chicago Smelts Conrad Paulson, Chicago Smelts Masters Roxie Pawluk, Rockford YMCA Dale Kelly, COHO Kristy Lawson, Illinois Masters Ruth Giles Ott, Chicago Smelts Dan Zimmerman, Chicago Smelts Malinda Dirske, Sea Otters Scot Phinney, Chicago Smelts Daniel Shiller, Chicago Smelts Marc Pershan, Chicago Masters Scott Clay, Chicago Smelts Dave Sebastian, Chicago Smelts Mark Daw, Chicago Smelts Stuart Marvin, Chicago Smelts Dominic Guagenti, Chicago Smelts Mary Anne Coburn, Naperville Waves Tom O’Toole, Fossil Fish Masters Doreen Lemke-Craffey, Illinois Masters Matt Roob, Chicago Smelts - Libertyville Maureen Hardy, Central Illinois Masters Elizabeth Kooy, Chicago Smelts Megan McCabe, YMCA Red Snappers

Look for more fitness events through Illinois Masters next year. The Committee plans to do another marathon with Carrie promising to design an even better t-shirt!

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PARTICIPATION, INCLUSION AND PERSONAL BEST ByBy NadineNadine DayDay Have you met … Mark Conlon? By Rebecca Keller There were 11,500 athletes from 70 countries represented in the Gay Games. Swimming had over 10 percent of the athletes. Illinois had 44 swimmers, who participate in the Team: Buehler Breakers Games. The meet took place over 6 days of competition. The two 25 meter courses at the University of Chicago posted fast times. There were 298 Gay Games records broken Age Group: 50-54 and eight USMS records. Illinois masters contributed to the numbers of records broken. Kyle Jackson, Marvin Stuart, Nadine Day, Trent Shepard, John Hallett, Linda First Masters Meet: Lattof 1981 Taillon, and David Sebastin broke Gay Games records. Seventeen ILMSA SCM records were broken Kyle Jackson (200 Bk, 400 IM, 400/800 Free), Marvin Stuart (200 Back), Best Master’s Swim: 800M Free at 2006 Nadine Day (200 Breast), Linda Taillon (200/1500 Free), Aaron Thielen (200 Fly, 1500 World Master’s Championships. I had Free), David Sebastin (200/400/800/1500 Free), and Mark Daw (1500 Free). made the decision to try for the World’s in mid-August, 2005. Then, on August The OPEN water event took place the morning after the opening ceremonies. With only 21st, I had a motorcycle accident leaving a few hours of sleep David Sebastin took 4th place overall. me in the hospital for a week, out of work for five weeks, and out of the pool The Chicago Smelts did a fabulous job with the opening ceremonies for the Pink for eight weeks. The time I made in the Flamingo and welcoming all the athletes to Chicago. 800M free, 13:26.56, was a personal best by 6.5 seconds from the St. Charles Long I was honored to volunteer for the Gay Games. I sat for hours with Carl Saxton and Course meet in July, 2005, before the Trent Shepard helping with registration. Greg Weber volunteered his Saturday to help accident. with registration. I had the opportunity to participate in the opening ceremonies and walked with Carl Saxton and Team Chicago, all the athletes from various sports from Technique Tips that Work: Use drills! Chicago. What an awesome experience it was. The Chicago Smelts saved the day My two favorites are reducing stroke by buying refreshments for the athletes and timing for the meet I met newbie, Heidi count per lap and a three-touch drill: Hickman, who swam in her first Masters meet. Wow what a meet to start her masters touch elbow joint, then hip, then wrist swimming career. The atmosphere at the event was amazing. The cheering was before pulling through with opposite constant and the enthusiasm about swimming was awesome. In four years, the Gay hand. Both drills make me concentrate on balance and body position. Another Games will be in Germany. tip: Keep a journal. I have a spiral desk calendar / notebook that I keep a record of times for all of my meets & events. SUE WELKER, USMS COACH OF THE YEAR ByBy Frank Frank Thompson “Skip” Thompson It’s a great way to keep tabs on your progress. It is my pleasure and honor to announce that Sue Welker has been awarded the 2006 USMS Coach of the Year Award by the USMS Coaches Selection Committee. Sue’s accomplishments in all 5 of the areas on the Nomination Cover sheet were excellent and outstanding. We had 4 very impressive and excellent candidates from all over the country and it took the selection committee 6 weeks to come up with a decision. To be selected from this group applauds character, dedication, and sacrifices that this achievement means. All of the swimmers from the Naperville Waves, Illinois LMSC, and USMS should be proud of Sue Welker as the 2006 USMS Coach of the Year.

Mark Conlon 10 PARTICIPATION, INCLUSION AND PERSONAL BEST ByBy NadineNadine DayDay ILMSA SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING

Maze Branch Library in Oak Park: 845 Gunderson Avenue Oak Park, IL 60304 708-386-4751

All ILMSA members are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting. Please be sure that your club or subgroup is represented. Pizza and pop will be served.

On the agenda: • Discussion and vote on proposed new by-laws (see below) • Selection of meet host for next year’s ILMSA state meet • Registration • Budget 2007

Current and proposed ILMSA By-laws are available at www.ilmsa.com. Contact Rebecca Keller at (847)658-1551 if you would like to be mailed hard copies. If you wish to have an item included in the agenda, please contact Nadine Day at NDAYPT at AOL dot COM

LONG DISTANCE COMMITTEE By Robert Zeitner

For those long distance swimmers who have or have Teams can use the postal events as a team recruiting and renewal not swum the Big Shoulders 2 1/2K swim or the National event. Team members can take turns counting and timing for each Championship 5K swim, the season is not yet over. other and teams can also assemble its own team relays. Just make sure all swimmers turn in their individual entry form or forms There still remains time for you to swim the 3000-yard and the or the relay will not count. 6000-yard USMS postal championship meets, from September 15 to November 15, 2006, at any 25-yard pool. You don’t If you have done the first three of the postal championship even have to travel anywhere, except to a pool in your own series this year (one-hour swim, 5K swim, 10K swim), in what neighborhood. If you are not familiar with “postal” meets, they is known as USMS Long Distance Postal Series Challenge, By Frank Thompson SUE WELKER, USMS COACH OF THE YEAR By Frank “Skip” Thompson are just what they sound like. You swim the event at your own those swimmers who are persistent enough to complete all five pool and mail in the results. You can stop and rest whenever postal meets will be sent a participation patch to honor their you want, although your rest time is included. Postal events achievement. The swimmers will also be honored with their names are a great continuing measure of your fitness. in USMS Swimmer, and will receive a certificate attesting to this achievement. Your time is less important than finishing all events Your individual swim at either distance or both distances and sending in your entry form. Believe me when I talk about the can also be used as part of a postal relay. For a men’s and time not being important, after my 10K pool swim. women’s relay, it is the cumulative time for 3 swimmers. For a mixed relay, it is the cumulative time for 2 men and 2 women. Any questions or comments: Robert E. Zeitner Chair of ILMSC Long There is no limit to the number of relays a swimmer can enter; Distance Committee [email protected] you can mix and match. All championship postal meets allow relays. A swimmer can do one swim and have it count two or three times. If you have swum, or plan to swim, one or more of these events, you can contact me about trying to include you as part of a relay. You can also contact me about available pools and times. 10 11 ILMSA

RECORDS FALL AT SHEA CHALLENGE SWIM MEET By Mary Pohlmann

The Saluki Masters Swim Club hosted the annual Ed and Ruth Shea Challenge Classic Long Course Masters Swim Meet July Garvey set three new Saluki Masters records in the men’s 18- 15th with 27 records falling by the wayside. 24 group with his 28.57 time in the 50 freestyle, 33.62 for the 50 butterfly and 3:09.55 for the 200 individual medley. Thomas Maine continued his record-breaking accomplishments in the men’s 80-84 division with four state and club records with his Cindy Strock bested the Saluki Masters 50 meter freestyle record split times during his 1500 meter freestyle, 200 breaststroke and in the 45-49 women’s division with her winning time of 35.12. 400 meter individual medley events. His new state records were 7:29.98 for the 400 freestyle, 15:28.54 for the 800 freestyle, 58.05 Mary Pohlmann, swimming in the 60-64 women’s division, bettered for the 50 breaststroke and 53.67 for the 50 butterfly. Maine set a the meet record for the 400 individual medley with her time of 7: total of seven pool records, including his winning time in the 400 34.65. individual medley (7:56.99), his 200 freestyle split time of 3:38.46 in the 1500 freestyle and his 100 butterfly split of 1:53.77 in the 200 Larry Bierwirth and Keith Shepherd of Swim Kentucky, Donald butterfly. Levy of St Louis Masters and Peter Andersen of San Diego Masters set one meet record a piece. Bierwith (50-54 men) won Saluki Masters Aaron Kelley, Paul Garvey and Cindy Strock the 50 freestyle with a record time of 27.43. Shepherd’s time of 2: each set new club records. Kelley established three new Saluki 51.39 broke the 200 backstroke meet record for 45-49 men. Levy Masters records in the men’s 30-34 category with his 28.93 time in (40-44 men) broke the 200 backstroke meet record for his age the 50 meter freestyle, 1:05.60 for 100 freestyle and 36.55 in the 50 division with a time of 2:47.93 and Andersen (60-64) set the record backstroke. in the 100 freestyle with 1:12.79.

12 LAPEL PINS ARE HERE!

Finally! A little bling to give some zing to your thing! Our snazzy new Team Illinois Masters Swimming lapel pins are just the right touch for your swim parka, warm-up jacket, baseball cap, swim bag, or even your lapel! They are black and silver, about an inch long, and look like this:

Such a deal at only $6.00 each by mail (or $5.00 at the meets next season- do you really want to wait that long though??) Don’t be the last on your block to get one! These are going to go fast!

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ILMSA BOARD MEMBERS

President: Secretary Nadine KM Day Rebecca Keller 21882 N 1400 East Rd 19 Circle Dr. Danville, IL 61834 Algonquin, IL 60102 cell: 217-304-3395 847-658-1551 home: 217-431-8396 secretary AT ilmsa DOT com e-mail: [email protected] president AT ilmsa DOT com Treasurer/Legal Chair Barbara Delanois Vice President 800 Oak St. PO Box 344 Chris Colburn Danville, IL 61832 234 S West St 217-446-5255 (WK) Naperville, IL, 60540-5231 Fax: 217-446-7570 630-865-9645 treasurer AT ilmsa DOT com vp AT ilmsa DOT com

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Communication: Rebecca Keller Editor Newsletter: Alex Helfers Webmaster: Chris Colburn Fitness: Rae Salus: rsalus AT sbcglobal DOT net Competition: Leslee Vittone, Sanction Chair: sanctions AT ilmsa DOT com Long Distance (Postals/OPEN Water)-Robert Zeitner: rzeitner AT mindspring DOT com Officials: Rich Mueller: N/A Coaches: Brian Cunningham: peakbody AT hotmail DOT com Records and Tabulations: Joe Magiera: joemagiera AT ameritech DOT net Legal Chair: Barbara Delanois Finance Chair: Phil Dodson MYFAVCPA AT aol DOT com Registration: Greg Weber, Rose Fossler, Marcia Cleveland: registrar AT ILMSA DOT com

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