The 15^th FINA World Masters Championships were held in Montreal from July 27^th until August 10^th. Pickering Master Splashers sent 8 swimmers to compete against almost 6000 athletes from around the world. Nikki Minchin, Ursula Wolfel, Gerhard Wolfel, Greg Bordash, Paul Gemmink, Iain Johnston, Glen Hanna, and Andy Manahan represented PMS at the meet. The team was involved in about 20 individual races. Andy Manahan captured 15^th place in the 100m Butterfly, while Iain Johnston, Ursula Wolfel, and Glen Hanna had some top 30 results. Greg Bordash was competing in only the third meet of his life.The men’s 4X50m freestyle relay team placed 38^th with a time of 1:59.51. The medley relay was so fast, no time could be recorded.The team did not let swimming get in their way of enjoying the sites, foods, and shopping in Montreal.

PartyPeter Chauvin will be hosting an end of year party on June 21st.

This year,  instead of finishing our swim season at the end of May,  normal  swim times will be extended  into June until Thursday June 19, 2014. After this,
the last swim of the 2013/14 season will be Monday June 23, 2014 with no swim on Saturday June 21, 2014.

Note: Many swimmers continue swimming at the Pickering Complex Mon/Tues/Thurs 9 -10 pm during adult lane swim.
Although this is not part of the normal PMS schedule and as such is not coached or paid for by the club,
a work out is often available.

Big congratulations to Canada’s Women’s Hockey team member, and Pickering resident, Jennifer Wakefield, for winning GOLD in Sochi and big congrats to proud parents and PMS members Suzanne and Tim Wakefield.

Hello PMS Members,

I would like to extend an invitation to all of you to attend the PMS Annual Christmas Party.  Paul Gemmink and his wife Marija have graciously offered to host the party again this year.  The annual Christmas party is always a must on everyone’s social calendar….you get to see what people look like without goggles!!!!  Spouse’s and children welcome.

• Date:  Friday December 20th
• Time: 7:30pm (Open house–feel free to drop in any time after 7:30)
• Address: 539 Mountain Ash Drive, Pickering
• BYOB 
• Potluck — feel free to bring your favourite appetizer/dessert (typically food is plentiful so go easy on dinner) and you are welcome to use Paul and Marija’s oven/microwave/bbq if required

Hope to see you there.

Pickering Master Splashers Executive

Omni Swim Aquatic Supplies will be at the Pickering Rec Centre this week-end. Unfortunately, they will not be giving the 20% discount you get when you go to the store in Scarborough since they pay part of their proceeds to the kids swim club. However, polyester swim suits will be 25% off this week-end. There will also be discounts on back-packs (a few of us have them if you would like to see one – Paul should be there this Thursday). There will also be some other discounts. Omni usually leaves around 2:00 or so at the latest. It would therefore be best to go in the mornings.

The first swim meet of the 2013-2014 swim season our club is planning on attending will be the Clarington NO EXCUSES meet scheduled for Saturday, November 30, 2013.  The meet package can be accessed at:

http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Clarington-NO-EXCUSES-Nov-30-2013.pdf

A good group of us went last year and a lot of fun was had by everyone that went.  Some of us even swam well.

The Clarington people were really nice to us and seemed to enjoy having us there.  We were asked at some of the swim meets later that year if we would be coming back.

As everyone knows, there is no pressure in coming to a meet.  All of us cheer each other on.  After all, you are only swimming against and for yourself.

Here is a link to the time standards for the world championships

http://www.finamasters2014 see this site.org/files/pdf/Time%20standards%20Montreal%202014.pdf

These times are long course.  To convert from short course (25m pools) to long course (50M pools), you can use conversion calculators

 http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/results/conversions.asp

Clarington No Excuses Masters Meet November 30, 2013

North York Gators Pentathlon December 8 2013

Burlington Winter Splash February 9 2014

Ontario Provincial Championships March 28-30 2014 Windsor

All Out Swim University of Toronto April 26 2014

Thornhill Masters 3rd Annual Swim Meet May 4 2014

Canadian Masters Swimming Championships May 16-19 2014 Windsor

15th FINA World Masters Championships July 27th-August 10th 2014 (Swimming Sunday August 3-10)

www.finamasters2014.org

Season starts Tuesday Sept. 17th.  Please come to meeting downstairs at 8:15.  Workout to follow at 9:00pm.