Comments (0) Lost your USMS card and dont know how to find your USMS number? Now you can locate your USMS # online!Â
Simply go to http://www.swimnem.org/members/membersearch.html and search for your number. Its that simple!Â
Here is the AP story run in the NY Times on it…
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-SWM-Thorpe-Retires.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Some teams around NEM are having Turkey Day swims…below is the list (so far) of teams having turkey swims along with their details.
Minuteman Masters Swim Club – (11/24/06 – 6-9am – LCM – Hanscom AFB, Bedford) – Open to all USMS swimmers (must provide proof of USMS membership on deck) – no fee – we will be having lanes that swim from 5k all the way up to 10k meters. If you are interested in swimming please contact Head Coach Rich Axtell (rich at minutemanmasters.com) to get on the list to get your base pass. All requests must be made by 5pm on the 22nd.
Cambridge Masters Swim Club – (11/23/06 – 9-10:30am – SCY – Blodgett Pool, Harvard) – Open to all USMS swimmers (must provide proof of USMS membership on deck) – no fee for CMSC swimmers – $10 for all non-CMSC swimmers – Swimmers must fill out Drop-In registration form or can fill one out on deck – more information is available at www.cambridgemasters.com. Please contact Head Coach Scott VanKuilenburg (scott at cambridgemasters.com) for more info.
Andover Masters Swim Club – (11/23/06 – 6-9:00am – SCY – Haverhill HS, Haverhill) – Open to all USMS swimmers (must provide proof of USMS membership on deck) – $20 includes a custom t-shirt and snack – For more information contact Head Coach Rick Battistini (battwave at verizon.net)
2007 Renewals are being sent to all 2006 members (who have not already joined for 2007) and should arrive via snail mail by the end of November. Please be sure to review the information for accuracy and send to Tracy (NE LMSC Registrar) with your payment by the end of December. All 2006 registrations expire on December 31st!
A reader wrote in that the site was taking an incredibly long time to load at his location. If anyone else is having a similar problem, or ANY problems for that matter, with the site, please take a second and drop me a line. Make sure to include the type of web browser you are using (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera…etc) and the version if you know which version it is. This website is for YOU so if it isnt working, what’s the point?Â
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Thanks! -NateÂ
This month’s Workout Group Profile features Bernal’s Gators Masters. Â
Please visit the Top Ten section for more information on this. Any errors/omissions need to be reported directly to Laszlo Eger no later than 11/30.
VIAREGGIO, ITALY–The 3-day, 3-city, short-course Italian Grand Prix gets underway tomorrow in Viareggio. Following tomorrow’s portion in Viareggio, the meet travels to Genoa on Friday (November 10) and Travagliato on Sunday (November 12). Along with a large Italian component, entrants also are from France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, and USA. The meets also serve for qualifying
for Italy’s team to the 2006 Short Course Europeans, in Helsinki, Finland, in December. More information and results from the meets is available here:
http://www.federnuoto.it/nuoto.asp?p=risultati_granpremioitalia_2006
VANCOUVER, CANADA–Former Paralympics swimming medalist Carla Qualtrough last weekend was elected President of the Canadian Paralympic Committee. She is a three-time bronze medalist from the
Seoul and Barcelona Games, and currently sits on the International Paralympic Committee’s Legal Committee.
http://www.paralympic.ca/english/index-details.asp?HomeID=341
IRELAND–Swim Ireland is looking for a Head Coach for its High Performance Center to be created at Limerick University. Further information is available here:
http://www.swimireland.ie/index.cfm/loc/2-2/articleId/BDFBC777-0BD9-7E37-107773C30178617D.htm
SHEFFIELD, UK–At last weekend’s DSE Swimming Championships in Sheffield, 15 World, 17 European and 32 British records were set. A listing of the records set can be found in the article here:
http://www.britishswimming.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,1086
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ANTWERP, BELGIUM–The website for the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships, scheduled for July 18-22 in Antwerp, can be found online here:
http://www.europeanjuniorsantwerp2007.be/
Webmaster’s Note** – At the 10/28/06 meeting the minutes for the 6/26/06 meeting were approved. Below are the minutes from that meeting.
ATTENDING: Homer Lane, Tom Lyndon, Al Prescott, Bob Boder, Karen Atkinson, Barr Clayson, Bob Seltzer, Will Wright and Kim Goodwin.
Before the meeting started, George Sichelstiel called to say he would be a few minutes late. It was therefore decided to proceed with the first item on the agenda.
Meeting started at 10:30 AM.
1). Review and Approval of the February 26, 2006 meeting minutes. The minutes of the previous February 26, 2006 board meeting were reviewed with a correction to Harvard T-Shirt paragraph removing item iii. The minutes were approved.
2). Activities Report:
George arrived at 10:40 during discussion of financials statements for FY ending 3/31/06.
a. Fiscal Year ending 3/31/06 Financial Statements. There was discussion about changing the tax date to provide for issuing a cleaner presentation of the financial. The consensus of the Board was not to make a change in the fiscal year end but rather to improve the report format.
b. There were 1362 NEM members as of 5/22/06. This is less than the 1451 members the Club had in October 2005. While there will be some more registrations before October it was noted that much of the apparent decline in membership is actually movement of NEM members to the Great Bay Masters.
c. One Hour Postal Swim. A discussion of likes/dislikes was held with comments about improvements by Al, Barr and Tom.
d. Short Course Nationals. NEM had 39 entrants in the meet in Coral Springs, FL and finished sixth overall with 906 points. Discussion ensued that the camaraderie of the team was disappointing this year, that perhaps we need to get a block of rooms together and run a few workouts locally for the meet entrants in advance.
e. Other Comments – New England SCY Championships, Clinics. Bob reported that the clinics were going well. 12-18 sessions in Manchester and 13 at Bob’s location. Scott called Homer complimenting us that the clinics were a good idea and NEM should do more.
There was discussion on the different charges for NEM/non-NEM and whether this discouraged participation of non-NEM attendees. Also discussed were our objectives in holding clinics; stoke improvement, access to good coaching and general development. Al commented that clinics tie-in with those who like to compete in helping NEM clinic attendees become better swimmers and can have the benefit of encouraging non-NEM attendees to join NEM and participate in meets.
Some other comments; increase in Swim Camp do cut into clinics, not being able to schedule and have open-water clinic and doing videos at the clinics. Tom suggested the club consider buying a video ‘coach cam’ or ‘Super Scope’. Bob added that ‘Agua Cam’ works well too. Al brought up the issues of scheduling, publishing clinic/events on the calendar and coordinating with other events (time and geography). The calendar of events within driving distance is filling up (good news) and offering events every weekend with multiple events on a given date (sometimes bad news).
f. Mini meets. Karen reported on the status of mini-meets. She has heard back from Wheaton and Northeastern as possibilities this year. There were a good number of meets however many were ‘after the fact’ planned during the season. Al added that Maine Masters had 5 mini-meets January through March. Karen noted that we are averaging 25-30 swimmers at the mini-meets. The first LCM meet this year will be at the Jenny Thompson pool in Dover, NH on July 23rd.
Homer added that NEM is still waiting for its share of proceeds from the SCY Championship meet run by the Cambridge Masters.
Al then passed out a Communications Report. The remaining issues on the Agenda were addressed during discussion of the Communications Report. Al started with discussion about the handling of the NEM E-News. He explained that there was some disagreement on whether the E-News should be distributed on an “opt-out†or an “opt-in†basis. After a brief discussion of the pros & cons he asked for a vote and the majority of the attendees agreed that every NEM member should be sent the E-News with the option to be able to remove their name from the mailing list.
He moved on to announce that the new NEM website is running however the club is in need of a new webmaster. He noted that Nate McBride has resigned as Webmaster and as Treasurer. Laurie Damianos had also submitted her resignation as Editor of the Newsletter.
Al then requested that we discuss and set a policy regarding (and pricing) advertising in the Newsletter. Do we want to get into advertising? Supporting the costs of the Newsletter? Is accepting advertising an issue/non issue in regard to the clubs ‘non profit’ status? The attendees discussed what constitutes advertising versus promotion. A consensus developed that it may be good to do advertising but we should track expenses carefully, i.e. costs/revenues related to web site and newsletter advertising.
3) A New Organization Chart and Job Descriptions were available but not handed out. Discussion ensued regarding the positions of club officers, Board members and other volunteer positions. Homer provided clarification that VP of Communication as well as the VP of Mini-Meets were volunteer positions. During the discussions and in light of the recent resignations Barr asked that we focus on the process of filling these positions. Barr commented that we are all volunteers in NEM and not to dwell on personalities. Karen added that only Board members are elected and can vote and not on volunteers who are appointed. Discussion continued on the organization ‘structure’ with Barr suggesting that the Board take the proposed structure under consideration, holding further discussion during the summer.
Following this discussion Homer reported that he had asked Al to resign from his present position of VP of Communications but to remain on the Board as a director. Homer felt that Al could best serve the Club as a Board member rather than in a supervisory position. Homer cited three recent resignations as his reasons for requesting the change. There was lengthy discussion among the Board members to Homer’s request and Al’s desire to continue in his current role. With no immediate resolution to this issue, and in light of the need to fill the critical vacancies in the club, Barr suggested that we wait 60 days on Homer’s call for Al to resign. In that time, he and Tom will speak to Board members individually concerning the issue making a recommendation to the Homer and the Board. Bob Seltzer brought to the attention of the Board that the VP of Communications is an appointed position and that the decision regarding that role is that of the President.
The following agenda items were briefly touched on with the decision to include them in the regular annual NEM Board Meeting in October.
• Proposed new Scoring Divisions for Workout Group Championships
• New Approach for the NEM Newsletter
• Delegates for the USMS National meeting
• Discussion of new profit sharing approach to NEM sponsored events
• Possible Trade Marking of NEM
• Developing NEM Championship Meet Guidelines
• Nomination Committee – Activation & Succession Planning
The meeting adjourned at 1:00PM.
Minutes respectfully submitted: George Sichelstiel, Secretary
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