FALL 2019 DOLPHIN LOG THE BULLETIN OF THE DOLPHIN SWIMMING & BOATING CLUB • SAN FRANCISCO • ESTABLISHED 1877 Dolphin_FALL2019.v3.indd 1 12/2/19 10:39 AM Once ’Round the Cove Dolphin Log Keith Howell, Editor Joe Illick, Editor Sunny McKee, Graphic Designer Dear Dolphins, Andrew Cassidy, Swim Stats Story Rafter, Proofreader hat a year! Thanks for all... and as we look ahead to Club Archivist nextW year, so much more to do! Let’s Morgan Kulla row and swim and play handball, Published By let’s eat drink and be Dolphins, The Dolphin Swimming let’s read together and hear more & Boating Club from one another at Forum, let’s 502 Jefferson Street understand sea level rise, let’s be San Francisco, CA 94109 part of rebuilding Muni Pier, let’s tie www.dolphinclub.org more knots, let’s honor all Dolphins and build the next generation, let’s Cover: From Mimi George’s “We, State of Muni Pier The Voyagers”, featured twice in D.C. 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Officers Big gratitude to Anna Olsen who President: Diane Walton Vice President: Davis Ja Membership Director: Janice Wood Treasurer: Chris Wagner Recording Secretary: Andrea Morgan Bob McKenzie, Polly Rose, Diane Walton House Captain: John Hornor Boat Captain: Jon Bielinski Board of Governors led the Dolphin runners, our Commissioners Jay Adams, Natazha Bernie, Ken Coren, who did Rowing and Swimming, and Robin Jay Dean, Lee Hammack, Joe Marenda, and her team who fed us all, happily. Nanda Palmieri, Dave Zovickian Footprints suggest raccoons were Club Manager: John Ingle checking the tides. -Diane Walton Swimming Other Athletics Communications Swim Commissioners: Ryan Utsumi, Tim DC/SERC TRI Captain: Open Comm Committee: Andrea Morgan Kreutzen, Kathleen Sheridan EFAT: Gina Rus Facebook: James Dilworth Check-in: Eric Shupert Handball Captain: Paul Brady Group.io: James Dilworth Clean-up: Neal Powers Running Commissioner: OPEN Instagram: Graham Tibbets Clothes Wrangling: Rebecca Wolski Weight Room Captain: Robert Selsted Twitter: Nancy Friedman Galley Captain: Nanda Palmieri Website Manager: Alana Harrington Intro to Bay Swimming: Lolly Lewis, Rose Lockers Levien Women’s Captain: Jane Mermelstein Lost & Found Swim Trinkets: Margaret Keenan Men’s Captain: David Zovickian Club & Women’s Locker Room: Piper Timing: Polly Rose Murakami Club House Men’s Locker Room: Hal Offen Rowing Gardens: Susanne Fredrick, Andy Stone Rowing Commissioner: Eric Lam Deck Landscape: Steve Krolik Other Lake Merced Captain: Jim Storm Green Team: OPEN Dolphin Foundation: Chris Wagner Power Boat Commissioner: Larry Heine Pier & Deck Hands: Stephen Crawford DC Youth Swim Fund: Diane Walton Fundraising Committee: OPEN Kayak Training: Terry Horn, Brian Kiernan Social Pilot Training: Jon Bielinski Government: Ken Coren, Meg Reilly Entertainment Commish: Robin Rome Renovation Committee: Jay Adams, Peter van Shell Training: OPEN Book Club: Kate Matthay, Anne Sasaki Wooden Training: Eric Lam, John Robiola der Sterre Club Mixer: Todd Bloch, Nanda Palmieri Save Aquatic Park Pier: Diane Walton Grizzly Challenge: Fiona Smythe DC Forum: Joe Illick Motorized Skills and Safety Training: Larry Swag: Andrea Morgan Event Requests: Janice Wood Volunteer Coordinator: Natazha Bernie Heine, Holland Ja, Mark Gustin Ukulele Club: Carolyn Hui 2 DOLPHIN LOG Dolphin_FALL2019.v3.indd 2 12/2/19 10:39 AM Once ’Round the Cove WATER WOMEN fter two long flights and a 4-hour bus ride across Peru to get to the Lima Village site of the Pan AmericanA Games, competitors from North and South America gathered for three weeks to compete in sports from cycling to taekwondo. As a member of the USA Sports Medicine Network (and a lifetime member of the Dolphin Club), I was asked to travel with the national USA Synchro synchronized swimming team as physical therapist/trainer. As of 2018, the sport has been renamed to Artistic Swimming. That is the name that everyone will hear in next year’s Olympics in Tokyo. Five thirty wake up calls for breakfast, followed by a 45-minute ride from the village to the pool and two hours of pool time practice with music, and another two hours or more practice without music. I am at the pool with the athletes throughout the day for necessary massages, localized injuries and in case of any emergency. For four days prior to the competition, I treated everything from musculoskeletal injuries, using manual therapy and taping, and led therapeutic exercises. I also addressed the non-musculoskeletal injuries: asthma attacks, foot fungus, blisters, and upset stomachs. The day usually ended at about seven for dinner, followed by team meetings, which often Martha was the trainer of the Artistic Swimming team which included the duo Daniella Ramirez and Anita Alvarez included video analysis of the day’s practice. Day over at about 9pm. The Opening Ceremony took place on July 26, when I walked with all the athletes into the National Stadium in Lima. Truly an honor! Throughout two days of competition, the National Team competed in Team Technical, and Free events and the Duet also in Technical, and Free events. The 8-member team would be one of twelve hoping to obtain podium places. The Gold Medal team would automatically earn a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Show time! For four minutes, athletes were judged on coordination with the music, costume, make-up, and photo Susanne Friedrich athleticism. As in gymnastics and ice-skating, the team technical event consists of required movements done to the coach’s choice of music. The Free event is done to music chosen and choreographed by the coach. The USA Team performed beautifully, and elegantly. Both the duet and team scored enough points to win the bronze medal, behind Canada and Mexico in each time. After a long restful summer, practice sessions in Moraga are already in full swing. The trials for Tokyo will be in March 2020. All for the American Dream. - Martha Maddox Physical therapist and Dolphin Martha Maddox at the Pan American games in Lima Peru FALL 2019 3 Dolphin_FALL2019.v3.indd 3 12/2/19 10:39 AM Barcelona-Ibiza Rowing Race to end HPV John Marsh photo Marcus McRitchie The third day, “maybe the worst day of our lives.” he NOMAN is an Island race elapsed time records compared to the alone. He gave us a six-month physical started Monday, July 22th at past three bi-annual races. That’s the training program, which included photoabout Marcus 10:00 McRitchie am, from Port Vell, summary. But for the full picture, find many hours indoors on the Concept TBarcelona. In broiling heat, our hearty a comfortable chair and read on. 2 Erg rowing machine and specialized crew of four “mature gents” patiently made it the 200 nautical miles to the Pre-Race Training finish line in Santa Eulàlia, on the This challenge started east coast of Ibiza on Thursday, July two and a half years ago. 25th, at about 3:00pm. Our team’s While wintering in San corporate sponsor was Courchevel Francisco, I joined the Prestige Chalets. Together, including Dolphin Club where I with your generous support, the six learned how to properly boats and their crews in this year’s row heavier boats on race raised about a half a million the choppy waters of dollars toward ending HPV, which the Bay. Back home in causes 5% of all cancers. NOMAN NYC, I joined the Village aims to raise awareness about the Community Boathouse at HPV-related cancer epidemic in men Pier 40 for rowing on the and women, campaign for universal Hudson River and also the HPV vaccination, while challenging East River Crew on E 96th participants to extreme endurance Street (for rowing on the races across the world. East and Harlem Rivers). Our boat, aptly named Patience, I also finally learned to came in last, but it also was the only swim. one with four rowers (all the others The NOMAN race had five). Our boat’s rowers’ average has been operated since Photo: Emily Roth Photoage, at by 51, Susanne was also Friedrich the highest by 2013 by Chris Martin, a 15Photo years Jocelyn or more. Chambers I was the (Mum) oldest world-class British rower rower. Nonetheless, all boats broke who rowed the Atlantic After 4 days of rowing 4 DOLPHIN LOG Dolphin_FALL2019.v3.indd 4 12/2/19 10:39 AM John Sulski, author, John Marsh, Russ Dyke and Mark Giancola with world-class ocean rower, Vicki Otmani, training on Lake Wynonah, PA. gym exercises. We also had to be The second, and the longest leg, to a sea. We even shared it with some certified in navigation and seamanship, point between the Isla Tagomago and dolphins. offshore safety at sea, and marine VHF Isla Ibiza, about ten miles northwest of radio use. I can now competently read the finish line. The third leg was to an Day Two – Acceptance nautical charts, manually plot courses, isolated cardinal buoy by a big scary The morning of day two was pretty and chart pilotage plans.