--- Masters News Stories ---
By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, November 4. A physical and emotional roller coaster: that's probably the best way to describe the past year or so for Beth Eldridge. What began as a successful national meet turned into a nightmare and has ...
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SHEFFIELD, England, October 28. MARK Foster set a Masters short course meter world record in the 35-39 50 freestyle as the leadoff of a mixed 200 freestyle relay at British Swimming's National Masters and Senior Age Group Championships held i...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, October 28. EVERY swimmer dreams of having the opportunity to represent their country on the world's biggest stage, the Olympic Games. In 1984, Chris Stevenson's dream came true when he competed for Gre...
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By Michael Moore
WALNUT CREEK, California, October 23. LAURA Val, Paul Carter and Richard Todd combined to break nine world standards, while Laura Davis broke three USMS standards at the Pacific Masters Short Course Meter Championships. Meanwh...
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KONA, Hawaii, October 23. KARLYN Pipes-Neilsen's amazing year just keeps getting better and better. One of her main goals this year was to become the first person in the history of Masters swimming to set a USMS national record in every distan...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, October 21. FEW swimmers would argue that swimming back and forth down that little black line for hours at a time can get pretty boring. And it's even worse with only a couple teammates to train alongside. ...
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MISSION VIEJO, California, October 8. WITH more than 150 swimmers in attendance at the SCM – Mission Viejo meet held in Calif., Caroline Krattli, 45, put together a record-breaking performance.
Krattli, who swims for San Diego Swim Masters, se...
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By Graham Senders, Australian Masters Correspondent
PERTH, Western Australia, October 8. TWO recent Australian records went down at the Saturday Short Course twilight meet held at the Thornlie Leisure Centre on October 6.
Sally Bell of Clare...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, October 6. COMING into the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Long Course National Championships in August, Laura Koch was simply hoping to win an event. With minimal long course training under her belt and ...
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ANAHEIM, California, October 5. UNITED States Masters Swimming, Inc., announced the United States Aquatics Sports Convention in Anaheim, Calif., that Club Assistant was hired to create and build an online registration system to serve its swimming ...
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ANAHEIM, California, September 30. NINE Masters athletes from the sports of swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, representing Canada, Great Britain and the United States, were inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame (I...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, September 29. ONE of the most frustrating aspects of being an athlete is dealing with injuries. Unfortunately, Laurie Dodd, who swims for UCLA Masters, knows all about this.
After her freshman year at Princ...
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WHIDBEY ISLAND, Washington, September 28. KARLYN Pipes-Neilsen, 45, dropped in on the 10th Annual Short Course Meters Pentathlon hosted by North Whidbey Island Masters and treated the local crowd to three FINA world-record breaking performances.
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MISSION VIEJO, California, September 26. MARK Moore, the head coach of the Mission Viejo Nadadores, has been named the head coach of the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) team headed to Perth, Australia for the FINA World Masters Championship...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 24. DARA Torres, the 40-year-old American record holder in the 50-meter freestyle, talks with Brent Rutemiller on Swimming World Radio about her racing comeback.
Listen as Torres talks about how United States Masters...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, September 22. WHEN Graham Johnston's swimming career first began, he didn't wear goggles because there weren't any. He trained in a chemical-free pool with no lane lines or starting blocks. And he s...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, September 14. NINE Masters athletes from the sports of swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, representing the Canada, Great Britain and United States, will be inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, September 14. WHEN a person retires, it closes the book on a chapter of their life. Whether it's leaving a job or an athletic career behind, retirement usually signifies the end. Or does it?
Susan Walsh,...
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EVANSTON, Illinois, September 12. WHILE Richard Kramer (57:13) and Erica Rosa (58:25) laid claim to the fastest swims in their respective categories of the Big Shoulders 5K held in Chicago, Ill., on Sept. 8, Daniel Projansky boasted one of the mo...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, September 8. LAURA Val, 56, of Tamalpais Aquatic Masters in San Rafael, Calif., has been on a tear, rewriting the record books and crushing everyone in her path this year.
Last month at the United States Ma...
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SINGAPORE, September 4. THE Standard Chartered International Masters swim meet, staged in Singapore from Aug 24-26, marked a new stage in the development of Masters swimming in Singapore. The meet was the flagship event of the Standard Chartered M...
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By Graham Senders, Australian Masters Correspondent
PERTH, Western Australia, August 21. THE final meet of three consecutive weekend State distance swims saw two Australian records broken on Sunday at the Somerset Street Aqualife pool, in Perth...
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By Graham Senders, Australian Masters Correspondent
PERTH, Western Australia August 16. FOR the second week of the current series of State distance swims, competitors met on Sunday morning at the Mandurah Aquatic Centre, 70km south of Perth. Tw...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, August 13. ALTHOUGH no new records fell during the final day of competition at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Long Course National Championships, the winning attitude was prevalent as the distance freestyle warrior...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, August 12. 888 – That's the number for the first three days of competition as eight Masters world records have fallen each day at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Long Course National Championships held in The Wo...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, August 11. THE second day of swimming at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Long Course National Championships concluded with eight more world records to move the meet total to 16. Meanwhile, five USMS standards fell ...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, August 10. THE first day of Masters competition at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Long Course National Championships featured eight world records and four other USMS standards.
Susan Walsh, 45, and Laura Val, 5...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 10, SPORTS Publications International will begin providing more United States Masters Swimming (USMS) coverage on a regular basis. Under the direction of Swimming World Magazine's editorial staff, Emily Sampl wi...
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MISSION VIEJO, California, August 9. OVER the weekend, the Masters world record book took some hits at the SPMA Regional Meet held in Mission Viejo, Calif.
Swimming World Magazine contributor Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen claimed several more gl...
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