Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo before the start of the ice kilometer at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. Imagine combining two of the loves of your life...one on dryland and one in the open water. Imagine swimming for a living; imagine traveling and working; imagine thinking about your
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cokie Lepinski, Head Coach of the Swymnut Masters, and the San Mateo Athletic Club is hosting a sold-out 3-day U.S. Masters Swimming National Coaching Clinic on November 11th-13th in San Mateo, California. There appears to be a demand for the National Coaches Clinic where a combination of classroom and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 United States Masters Swimming National Coaches Clinic will be held November 11th - 13h in San Mateo, California. The 3-day weekend clinic is specifically tailored for masters swimming coaches and will cover open water, team building, turns, dryland, and stroke technique. Ron Marcikic will talk
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. San Mateo Athletic Club is hosting a sold-out 3-day U.S. Masters Swimming National Coaching Clinic on November 11th-13th in San Mateo, California. U.S. Master Swimming coaches who will speak include Ron Marcikic on team building, Dr. John Mullen on dryland and technique, Cokie Lepinski on turns, Laura
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the most prolific writers and influential publishers in the swimming world, Laura Hamel, clearly does what she writes about: enjoy masters swimming and open water swimming. She and her son, Dirk Hamel, won the 2.4-mile Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim in Turks & Caicos last week. Dirk, a sophomore at
Elaine Howley Masters The Write Stuff Courtesy of WOWSA, Boston, Massachusetts. Elaine Howley has a global following with her numerous articles on a wide variety of topics ranging from profiles of swimmers and training to science and physiology, but she is arguably best known for her expertise in ice swimming, extreme swimming and marathon swimming. A
Sarasota YMCA Sharks Masters Swimming holds its Open Water Saturday workouts throughout the year at Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota on the west coast of Florida. Open Water Saturdays is an official U.S. Master Swimming team-sanctioned workout where swimmers of all levels are welcome to the group swim. Siesta Beach is known as one of the most beautiful beaches
Laura Hamel is on the move, out in the open. In her new role as the Communications and Publications Director of U.S. Masters Swimming, Hamel is very effectively utilized the power of the word and the platform of U.S. Masters Swimming to promote the sport of open water swimming. Hamel, an enthusiastic pool and open water swimmer from Sarasota, Florida, is
