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If you are attending Worlds in Riccione, Italy, please read this letter from Red Tide Masters Swimming Coach Kristin Gary. She offers information about team communication, apparel, get-together dinner and other information. Ciao!
Read all about Spring Nationals in Greensboro (including swimmers' reactions, photos and results), upcoming open water swim events, details on PNA's Coach of the Year and Inspirational Swimmer, and our new Editor here. It's archived under The WetSet link above as well.
New Top Ten listings from PNA’s Records/Top Ten chair Walt Reid are now posted! Go to the Member Services / Records page to view last year’s SCY, SCM and LCM standings for PNA competitors locally, nationally and worldwide (scroll down to Top Ten (PNA, USMS and FINA) - 2011 Tabulations).
Did you watch the USMS live video stream of the meet? Very cool. All results are now available, including results by age group. Read the PNA results to see who set the 19 PNA records, 13 Zone records and two National records. Not only did PNA place second in the Regional team category, have three Top Ten finishers in the 65-69 50, 100 and 200 Breast (who also happened to be hotel roommates and live in Kitsap County!), win several relays, and see many individual high finishers, we even had a wedding! Read all about it in the May-June issue to be published soon by our new editor of The WetSet, Chericka Ashmann-Rice!
Two days of great competition among 380+ swimmers at KCAC are done. The team standings are here; the tentative individual and relay results are posted on BWAQ’s site. Congratulations to our two award recipients, Dawn Musselman Inspirational Swimmer Kiko Kimura Van Zandt and PNA Coach of the Year Becca Watson! Check out our Awards & Recognition page under About PNA / About PNA.
FINA revised its interpretation of the initiation of the breaststroke arm pull after the start and after each turn. Effective immediately, USA Swimming and USMS have adopted the updated interpretation, simplified below:
[affects USMS Rule 101.2.3, “Kick”]
[affects USMS Rule 101.2.2, “Stroke”]
The previous interpretation (any lateral or downward movement of the hands or arms was the initiation of the first arm pull) is no longer in effect and now requires “observable separation” of the hands to initiate the first arm pull -- no other action will do so. This interpretation requires additional separation if the swimmer starts or leaves the wall after a turn with the hands already separated.
For specific details, see www.usms.org/rules/20120314_breast_interpretation.pdf
March 28 - In case you hadn’t noticed, you are now visiting PNA’s new web presence – same address, new provider, new layout, new webmaster. Many thanks to our previous webmaster Hugh Moore who will continue to provide me assistance going forward, and to our results database guru Jon Walker who graciously continues in that role. Kudos also to PNA’s redevelopment team, Sarah Welch, Arni Litt, Sally Dillon, Lisa Dahl and Ron Rhinehart, and to Shane Austin, Club Assistant’s developer who turned their recommendations into this new structure.
This new site is a work in progress. We’ll be expanding content and things will be rearranged occasionally to simplify access to the information you need to make your PNA experience the best! Please email me your comments and suggestions any time.
– Steve Peterson
. . . check the Events / Pool Meets and Events / Open Water and Postal tabs for details.
USMS Summer National Championships - Omaha, NE; July 5-8. All entries must be received by May 31. Click usms.org/comp/lcnats12 for more information and to register online.
What's Happening?
Check the Events listings for details on these events:
June 9
NW Senior Games (SCY) - Seattle
Evergreen Summer Launch (POW) - Olympia
July 21
Fat Salmon (OW) - Seattle
July 29
WA State Senior Games (SCY) - Olympia
August 12
AquaRun For A Child (OW) - Tacoma
August 18
Emerald City Swim (OW) - Seattle
September 8
Whidbey Adventure (OW) - Langley
September 22
Last Gasp of Summer (OW) - Seatac
October 6
BAMFest 11 (SCY) - Bainbridge Isl.
October 20-21
NW Zone Champs (SCM) - KCAC
December 1
Sand Pt Country Club (SCY) - Seattle
