WISCONSIN MASTERS SWIMMING JANUARY, 2002 A Note From Nancy WMAC Newsletter Editor January, 2002, already! Seems like I am just recovering from getting the fall newsletter out and suddenly winter is upon us and another issue is needing to be published. We've long since abandoned our outdoor pools and are well into the ''turn every 25 yards" season. Meets are scheduled - some have already been completed - and the lure of USMS Short Course Nationals in HAWAII has many of us wondering if we will ever have a better excuse to visit those islands in the sun. For those who need to work on their tan prior to Hawaii the National YMCA Masters Championships are once again being held in Florida in late April. And closer to home - the USMS LC Nationals will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in August. Even for those of us who live "up nort" this meet is one to which we could easily drive. I hope you will keep these dates in mind, as well as our many other short course meet opportunities as you train and travel during these winter months. In addition to the WMAC schedule of meets there is also the One Hour Swim. Better hurry, though, as it must be completed during the month of January. Monthly meets in Wauwatosa, Madison, and a new meet in Baraboo should provide ample opportunities to fine tune our events prior to the State Short Course Meet in April. So what am I saying? No whining about winter! We have lots of opportunities to compete and go for PRs as well as state, national, and even world records. Get in the swim and come to the meets! WMAC needs you to support these events. So - Be There! And good luck as you pursue your 2002 short course goals. lF!Rl@IMJ 'lrlXl~ !Nl~W ©IXl~O!RllMJ~!Nl Correction! Dick Pitman In the September, 2001, edi­ It is with very humble appreciation that I follow in tion of this newsletter individuals the steps of John Bauman as the Chairman of the recognized for achieving Top Ten Short Wisconsin Masters Swimming. John is hardly retiring into Course Yards swam their times during the the sunset, though, since he is assuming probably the two toughest positions in our LMSC (Local Masters Swim 2001 season. The headline incorrectly Committee): Registrar and Top Ten Recorder. You could listed their achievements as coming in say I'm just a figurehead especially while I learn the ropes the 2000 season. about this business. As many of you know I've been involved in Masters Swimming for quite a number of years. My first meet was in January 1982. I was 37 at the time. I've competed every year since except one and a REMEMBER HIM? half years when I had shoulder tendonitis. So, I've seen a Dick Pitman lot of swimmers pass through Wisconsin over those years. One name: Eric Moussambani. Do you remem­ The way John and I are dividing responsibilities is ber who that is? He's the guy who represented Equatorial that my objective is to help get Masters programs started Guinea (pop. 465,746) at the Olympics last year. He in Wisconsin and get more people swimming at Masters learned how to swim about 6 months prior, swam in the meets. I've been pretty successful in getting a program preliminaries ALL BY HIMSELF (because everyone else going at the Madison Y so I think I've learned a few tricks. in his heat scratched) on world-wide TV coverage!! He I helped some swimmers in Baraboo get a program rolling swam a 100 meter freestyle in 1 :52.72 . A forgettable this fall. We'll be swimming in their pool on March 2. time? Probably. A beatable time by anyone on your You'll be in for a treat there. Also, Mike Ziniel has a group team? Probably or undoubtedly. A forgettable event? going in Sturgeon Bay in "his" new pool at the Sturgeon Never. I think the courage he showed in just getting on Bay YMCA. And, there's another group forming at the the block was tremendous. The whole world was in agony West Suburban Y as we speak. watching him trying to finish that race. A lot of us would So, these are my goals: to assure a smooth tran­ willingly have jumped in and volunteered to finish it for sition with me as Chairman; help Masters programs grow him. But, he kept on and he made it. throughout the state; and help the numbers of registered The next time you talk to someone about Masters Masters swimmers grow in the state. I hope to see you at swimming and they say, "I don't think I'm good enough ... ," the next meet which is at Wauwatosa West HS on just tell this story. Masters is for every "Eric February 2nd. Note: There are starting blocks now, but Moussambani." they've been switched to the deep end on the narrow UPDATE: This past July, Eric swam a :31.88 LC island separating the racing pool from the diving well. 50 free at the 9th FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPI• Yeah - we were kind of surprised, too, at the last meet! ONSHIPS in Fukuoka, Japan! Quite an improvement!!!!! ~~\'. J~ 0 . il~--2>- MOVING????????? lvor1:;,, ~~ Please be sure to send your address changes as soon as possible to John Bauman by either snail mail or e-mail • · ([email protected]). John includes all address changes in his monthly registration report to USMS. Your issue of SWIM magazine may not get forwarded so it is important to allow enough time for all entities to be notified. Badger State Games Athletes of The Year Nominated George S. Trawicki, for National Honors! age 85, passed awa November 29, 2001. The 2001 Badger State Games Athletes of the Year - Roger Bagneski, George was a long time of Madison, and Germaine Havel, of Appleton - have been nominated for male member of the Wisconsin and female National State Games Athlete of the year. Masters Aquatic Club, a Bagneski, 56, a retired firefighter, has competed in every Badger State Summer Games since its inception in 1985. Bagneski competes annually in USMS National Champion , track & field and has won more than 60 medals in the 100 meter dash, 200 meter and an All-American. dash, 400 meter relay, long jump, high jump, and triple jump, including gold George set Wisconsin medals in long and triple jump this year. "I'm very honored even to be considered records in 1976 in the for the national award," Bagneski said. "This is one of the best things that has breastroke events tha happened to me in my athletic career and it's nice to be a contender with all the remain the other great amateur athletes from around the country." Havel, 53, a medical patient accounts coordinator, competed in her very today. ---ofU"~=ger Stata.S1JmmM Garnes this yGar...arJ.d camG__a~ with four m-'-'e=d=a=ls::...=;in, 1t-~-----"G::::.:e=orge was a retire swimming. Havel won gold in the 100 meter freestyle - setting a Badger State Lt. Col.. of the Wisconsin Games record in her age division - 200 meter freestyle, 200 meter freestyle relay, National Guard. What an and captured silver in the 100 meter backstroke. "It was just a lot of fun to see all the different people and compete in my first Badger State Games," Havel said. officer and gentleman he "I'm surprised and honored to have been selected as the female Athlete of the was. We mourn his pass- Year and nominated for the national award." ing. The National Congress of State Games (NCSG), in an effort to recognize amateur athletes and further the purposes and results of the State Games move- ment, has established an annual Athlete of the Year award. The award is pre­ sented to a male and female athlete who have competed in one of the recognized Wisconsin Masters State Games programs around the country and who personify the ideals of the Web Site State Games movement: participation, sportsmanship, effort, and positive atti­ tude. www.Swim-wimasters.org Congratulations Germaine and Roger (even though you're not a swim­ Check it out! mer, Roger! Fact or Fiction??? Melinda Mann 45 Betty Lorenzi 7 4 You have to train for weeks 1st 50 breast :3735 4th 200 free 3:29.84 1st 100 breast 1: 22.30 4th 400 free 7:26.09 before you get any benefits. 2nd 200 breast 3:01.41 2nd 1500 free 29: 11.02 4th 50 fly :32.83 3rd 50 back :50. 79 FICTION! It may take a month or two before 1st 100 fly 1:12.26 1st 100 back 1 :41.97 your aerobic workouts get noticeably easier, but 2nd 200 IM 2:41.31 2nd 200 back 3:44.00 you should shave pounds within a week. AND, your strength will sharpen as well. Ohio University Melinda and Betty traveled to the LC USMS National Meet to conducted studies which demonstrated that mus­ achieve these times. Congratulations to both of you on a job cle responds to weight lifting after only four ses­ well done. Both Melinda and Betty claim All-American status sions. Can it get any better? You bet! Further for their respective first place fin ishes!!!!! research has revealed that after just one workout you can experience reduced stress, a rosier outlook on life, more confidence, Does your mailing label have a red stripe on it? If so you have better sex, and sounder sleep! So NOT re-registered for 2002.