Any time I travel, I always try to make a point of visiting the local historical sites. So last September, when given the rare opportunity to attend a family wedding in London, I figured I’d finally hit the motherlode: Westminster Abbey (goosebumps), the Magna Carta (more goosebumps), the Rosetta Stone (even my goosebumps had goosebumps), but there was one place on my must-see list that has yet to make it into any official tourist guidebook. Of course, I’m talking about THE pool, the one at Queen Eliza-beth Olympic Park. Yes, THAT Olympic Park. The London Under-ground makes the getting there a snap, depositing passengers right at the main gate, which oddly enough, looks more like the entrance to an upscale shop-ping center than an athletic mecca, but

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a q u a t i c s U N I T E D S T A T E S M A S T E R S S W I M M I N G

c u r r e n t s

Blue Wave Aquatics PO Box 24083 Federal Way, WA 98093

PAGE INSIDE 1 President’s Letter

1 Coach’s Column

2 Swim Defiance 2015

3 PNA Champs 2015 Preview

6 Blue Waves In

Motion

7 Found On Face-book

7 New And Return-ing Members

8 Directory

9 PNA Champs 2015 Paper Entry Form

APRIL - MAY 2015

So you’ve registered for the PNA Champs meet. Now what?: Congratulations for registering for PNA Champs. Here are a few tips to keep the

courage and confi-dence up until you get through the meet. First is to believe! Yes you can! You are great, you can swim the events you choose with grace and speed and yes, your goggles will stay on. Whatever you focus on will come true so keep it positive. Between now and the meet, practice at least two dives at each workout. It's like rid-ing a bike; you'll re-member how to do it once you get up there. Don't know

how to dive yet? Let us teach you. We still have time!

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President’s Letter by Pat Duggan

Coach’s Column by Wendy Neely

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Remember, there’s no “I” in TEAM, but

there is an “I” in TIME; as in “I”

better take time to sign up for

CHAMPS, 2015.

SIGN UP DEADLINE IS THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 5:

CLICK HERE to Sign UP

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TEAM OFFICERS: President: Pat Duggan Vice President: Kim Boggs Secretary: Jenell Outerson Treasurer: Judy Williams Membership: Angela Turley MEMBERS AT LARGE: KCAC: Mike Murphy Covington: Eric Durban Evergreen: Ed Marrs Fife: Wilson Defiesta Sumner: Tony Lieggi Webmaster: Angela Turley Newsletter: Dan Smith

In 1926, the first organized competi-tive swim between Vashon Island and Point Defiance in Tacoma, WA was held across approximately two miles of open water, following the ferry route used today. Now we are making it possible to repeat this historic feat! Blue Wave Aquatics is proud to an-nounce the second annual Swim Defi-ance taking place at Commencement Bay, in Tacoma, Washington. The swim has been moved to June 21, 2015 this year We welcome back returning swim-mers as well as everyone else plan-ning to participate in June for the first time. Swim Defiance offers a 3k and 5k event; participants for both events will receive the following: Special random prize drawing for par-

ticipants and volunteers while waiting for the last person to finish. The website is now online and has all

the information you need. Be sure to save the date and make this the first open water race of the Northwest open water swimming season a great success. More info at: http://www.swimdefiance.com

Swim Defiance 2015 by Zena Courtney

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“Winning isn’t every-

thing as they say,

but winning is

something”

PNA Champs is set for April 11-12, 2015 at the King County Aquatic Cen-ter. One of the nice things about Champs is that it is a chance for our entire team to get together as a group and compete together. I’ve noticed that swimmers, like fish, love to travel in groups. We do so many things as a group that we wouldn’t do as individ-uals.

Take a look at practice. We all show up together regularly without ques-tion. Look at how many of us go to workout on our own when our normal practice gets pre-empted. Barely any-one. And those that show are very unmotivated to swim even a full hour. Lane mates and team workouts are a

great thing.

Swim meets are the same way. I’m not necessarily compelled to compete at meets, but because I know that my friends who I work out with every day will be there, I wouldn’t miss the chance to be there, to cheer for them and to know they are cheering for me. It just feels great to do something to-gether. Shared experience. Champs is the perfect meet for some-one who has not yet competed in a meet. It is a big event which makes the pace of the meet reasonable. Some smaller meets seem like you are racing an event every 10 minutes. Al-so, there are a lot of new people that make Champs their first meet, so you have a lot of company. Two year ago

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PNA Champs 2015 Preview

by Dan Smith

once you pass by the clot of restau-rants and stores, there it is: the pool with its signature wave-shaped roof. At first glance, the building seems a bit squashed , as though it somehow developed a slow leak since 2012, but then I realize I’m standing one level up from the entrance. Once down the stairs and around through front door, the impression is more of a stately art gallery or museum, with towering alabaster walls and a vault-ed ceiling. These days, there is al-most a hushed atmosphere about the place, far removed from the bus-tling chaos that was the Olympics. Surprisingly, the admission fee £5 ($7.50 US) was lower than any other London pool I investigated. Of course, adding in the subway fare, it’s a wash, but then this isn’t just any venue, either. Even the entrance to the women’s locker room impresses. As I meander through the maze to find the chang-ing area, I finally catch partial sight of another swimmer, blasting her curls with one of the complimentary hair dryers. My first reaction: wow, talk about amenities. My second reaction: Oh my, that is one hairy leg.

Then it hits me. Yikes. In my state of utter awe and wonderment, have I unwittingly walked into the wrong locker room? Then I remember: swimming pools in the UK have shared locker room facilities— or “Changing Villages” as they’re known-- featuring private cubicles with sev-en-foot doors, although the commu-nal aspect is usually much more ap-parent from the start. Getting over my initial panic, I am relieved not to have inadvertently done anything to cause an interna-tional incident. Once suited up and with locker key bracelet attached, it’s off to the pool. Immediately, I spot an empty lane right next to the memorial Michael Phleps-Missy Franklin-Ryan Lochte gold medal lane. That fast lane al-ready has about three amateurs cir-cle swimming, which is just as well, since it would be a bit presumptuous of me to even consider joining them. However, having a lane all to myself is short-lived, since two male swim-mers soon hop in and start doing—what else do these Brits traditionally swim?—the breast stroke, in this case a slow-motion breast stroke. So slow, I keep lapping them in a 50 me-ter pool. It soon becomes obvious I will either have to move or get more frustrated, since my lane mates also have a tendency to loiter at the walls and then push off right as I am doing

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“Oh my, that is

one hairy leg.”

Focus on the details: strong breakouts from the wall; not breath-ing the first stroke off the wall, accel-erate in and out of the turns. Ask questions about any stroke rules you may have BEFORE the meet.

Sleep. Sleep. Sleep! Get plenty of sleep. Read the following sleep study on the impact of athletic perfor-mance and getting enough sleep: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releas-es/2008/06/080609071106.htm See you at the meet.

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“for many swimmers, the road to glory has

gone through the King County

Aquatic Cen-ter”

my flip turns. Luckily, by this time, the venerated gold medal lane is less crowded, so I quickly duck under the lane line and resume my freestyle stroke, pleased to discover I have no problem keep-ing the pace and am actually gaining on the remaining swimmer. In fact, at that precise moment, I have achieved what much greater athletes have done before me: becoming the fastest human in the pool. Timing, of course, being everything. Not until months later, when the Pac-12 crowd comes to our town with Missy Franklin in tow, does another realization occur to me: that for many swimmers, the road to glory has gone through the King County

Aquatic Center. Historical signifi-cance? We have that too, having been the site of the 1990 Goodwill Games. As members of BWAQ, not only can we swim here, this is our home pool. At the same time, that makes our good fortune easy to take for granted, or to elicit annoyance when practices are bumped for those big meets. Instead, it should show us how much others value what we have. Besides, we get to pre-empt everyone else with PNA Champs. I don’t know about you, but if I were a visiting tourist, KCAC would defi-nitely be on my must-see, must-swim list. No furnished hair dryers, perhaps, but free parking and great coaching. You can’t beat it so you might as well swim it. And what better time than Champs? (Hint.Hint.) Hope to see you there!

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Over thirteen BWAQ swimmers took part in our Annual POW (Pool Open Water) swim on Sunday afternoon, February 22, 2015 at KCAC. The lane lines were taken out and four buoys were set up in the four corners of the pool to create an oval race course. USA swimmers also swam the course in the morning, and it was a very well attended and successful event. Brook Brayman was the sole repre-sentative for BWAQ at the Anacortes

SCM Masters Meet held on Sunday, January 25, 2015 in Anacortes, WA. Brook Brayman, Gail Stribling Geld, and Kirsten Byers competed at the 2015 Lake Washington Masters Invita-tional meet on Sunday February 22, 2015 at the Juanita Aquatic Center in Kirkland, WA. Brook Brayman and Jean Blackburn attended the SARC Masters Meet on Sunday, March 8, 2015. Old school, no touchpads up in Sequim, WA.

Blue Waves in Motion

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“If you swim at

this meet, you

WILL score points

for the team”

we boasted a roster of 80 swimmers from our team at the meet, with an

unprecedented 30 swimmers from our team that were attending their first meet. Winning isn’t everything as they say, but winning is something. BWAQ has won Champs at least every year that I’ve swum with the team (in 2003),

but last year we were handed our first loss. This motivaties me to want to show up in strong numbers and make a good show of the power of team. We also want to make our coaches proud. Close competition makes every swim meaningful and every point count. If you swim at this meet, you WILL score points for the team.

So I’m looking forward to sharing the Champs weekend with you all. Re-member, misery LOVES company.

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Ashley Newman

Christine Krage

Hannah Glazko

Kaycie Wood

Nina Garofalo

NEW AND RETURNING MEMBERS

Swim Team Schedule - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/Schedule.aspx Tri Time Swimming Lesson Schedule - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/Schedule-SwimLessons.aspx Up To the Minute news/exciting articles - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/Members.aspx

Weekly news - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/News.aspx

Newsletters / Minutes - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/News.aspx

Swim Meets/Triathlons - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/Competition.aspx

Meet Results - http://www.bluewave-aquatics.com/Competition.aspx Click on ‘Archived Events’

TEAM LINKS

T-Shirt Design

College Style:

Andy Iyall shares

this T-Shirt from

his one year swim-

ming with Idaho.

The shirt had dou-

ble meaning. They

had no divers so

would lose points

during diving, and

the swimming pro-

gram was destined

to be cut from the

University of Idaho

at the end of the

season.

Andrew Malinak posts on the West-ern Washington Open Water Swim-mers facebook page: “If you plan to swim on a rough day, the Coast Guard would appreciate a heads-up phone call. They say they routinely get calls about distressed

swimmers, especially in rough condi-tions, and by protocol they must launch a full search such as today's three-hour endeavor to find me. Oops.” Funny, and also a good idea, Andrew. USCG Sector Puget Sound can be reached at: 206-217-6001.

Found on Facebook

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member business directory Business Swimmer/Email/Web Address / Description Phone Fax

BK Business Systems

Dan Smith 12155 Marine View Drive SW 206-246-2525 206-246-5102

dans@bkbusiness.com Seattle, WA 98146 206-356-1663

www.bkbusiness.com

Specializing in supporting small business computing needs, we service all areas of information technologies from build-ing workstations and servers, installing and maintaining networks, custom programming, website development, repairs and consulting services.

City Energy Systems

Patti Cunningham 4202 Auburn Way No. #8 253-852-2174 253-852-2252

CITYSM1981@COMCAST.NET Auburn, Wa. 98002-1370 800-365-2489

www.cityenergysystems.net

Specializing in energy saving Gas furnaces, Heat Pumps, Air Conditoners and Tankless water heaters since 1981. Sales and service, free estimates.

Freeborn Law Offices, P.S.

Stephen L. Freeborn 33400 9th Avenue South #208 253.838.4477

steve@freebornlawoffices.com Federal Way, WA 98003 206.624.5313

General law practice: criminal defense, debtor/creditor bankruptcy issues; business and contract law, landlord-tenant law, restrictive covenants and homeowner associations; homeowner property/boundary disputes. My wife,Sue - also an attorney - specializes in wills and estate issues, guardianship law and also her masters in clinical counseling with 3 offic-es, Seattle, Federal Way, and Enumclaw.

Jockey Person to Person

Zena Courtney 1853 Overview Drive NE 253-927-3695

zenacourtney@hotmail.com Tacoma, WA 98422

www.jockeypersontoperson.com/zenacomfortzone

I am a Jockey Person to Person Comfort Specialist offering economical, versatile, easy-care, fashion forward women's clothing that goes from work to play, ranging from sizes XS to 3XL through FREE pre-planned presentations and private one-on-one consultations. Enjoy stress-free dressing in one session!

Tacoma Chiropractic Center

Greg Collins, LMP 2420 S. Union Ave. suite 230 253 759-1500

Tacoma, WA. 98405

greg@tacomachiropracticcenter.com

Specializing in deep tissue massage, with an emphasis on Trigger Point Therapy. A Nationally Certified Massage Thera-pist, Greg has spent the last 15 years practicing preventive and remedial treatment of muscles and soft tissue for the management of pain, stress and soft tissue injuries. Greg is a past member of the AMTA National Sports Massage Team, and the Washington State Sports Massage Team. Greg was Co-director of Massage Services for the 2001 USMS Long Course Nationals. Team Special: First hour massage $45

2015 PNA Championship Meet Saturday April 11th and Sunday April 12th, 2015

Hosted by Blue Wave Aquatics Sanctioned by PNA for USMS Inc. #365-S005

LOCATION: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, 650 SW Campus Drive, Federal Way, WA 98023 206-296-4444

FACILITY: 50-meter championship pool set up as two 25-yd courses, each with 9-ft wide lanes and a water depth range of 9’-10.5’ Continuous warm-up available in 7-lane, 25-yd dive tank. The length of the competition course is in compliance and on file with USMS in accordance with articles 105.1.7 and 107.2.1, but as a bulkhead course, is subject to length confirmation. Eligibility of times for USMS Top 10 and Records will be contingent on verification of bulkhead placement.

TIMES: Saturday, Apr 11: Warm-up 9:00-9:50am, meet starts 10 am Sunday, Apr 12: Warm-up 9:00-9:50am, meet starts 10 am

MEET DIRECTOR: Steve Freeborn, 206-940-7442 pnachamps@bluewave-aquatics.com

CONCESSIONS: Vendor contracted with KCAC, available in lobby.

RULES: Current USMS rules will govern the meet. Strictly forbidden: Using hand paddles, fins or kick boards in warm-up areas; Diving in warm-up areas unless in designated sprint lanes.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all 2015 USMS or foreign registered swimmers 18 and above as of 04/12/2015. Age groups based on the swimmer’s age as of 04/12/2015.

ENTRIES: Swimmers may enter up to 6 individual events, 5 individual events/day max. Entries must be received by Sunday April 5th, 2015 11:59 PM (Pacific Time).

NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED AFTER SUNDAY APRIL 5TH, 2015 11:59 PM (PACIFIC TIME)

SEEDING: Two courses will be used for the 400 IM, 500 Free, 1000 Free and 1650 Free. A single course will be used for all other events. All events slow to fast. Pre-seeding except for asterisked events, below.

CHECK-IN: Saturday: 1000 Free – end of Event #6; Sunday: 500 Free – 9:30am, 1650 Free – end of Event #18. Swimmers missing the check-in deadline will be scratched from the event.

RELAYS: 18+, 25+ and subsequent ten-year increments as high as necessary to accommodate all swimmers. The age of the youngest member of the relay team shall determine the age group. Mixed relays require two men and two women. Relay entries due by noon each day of the meet.

AWARDS: Ribbons for individual places 1 – 6. Medals may be purchased at meet. Plaques will be awarded for PNA team awards.

SCORING: Scoring will be 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for Individual Events and 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 for Relay Events

ORDER OF EVENTS: Saturday, April 11th Sunday, April 12th

1 400 Individual Medley 13 500 Free *

2 200 Free 14 200 Breast

3 100 Breast 15 100 Free

4 50 Fly 16 50 Back

Break (10 Minute) Special Awards Presentation

5 100 Individual Medley 17 200 Individual Medley

6 200 Back 18 200 Fly

7 50 Free 19 100 Back

8 100 Fly 20 50 Breast

9 Women’s 200 Medley Relay

21 Women’s 200 Free Relay

10 Men’s 200 Medley Relay 22 Men’s 200 Free Relay

11 200 Mixed Free Relay 23 Mixed 200 Medley Relay

12 1000 Free * 24 1650 Free *

PNA Team Awards

ENTRY FEES: $35.00 (US or Canadian) includes LMSC surcharges. PLUS $3 per individual event (optional for seniors and needs-based swimmers). No charge for relays. Fees include WA state sales tax.

ONLINE ENTRIES: Enter online at: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1449&smid=6245

DIRECTIONS: From North or South Bound I-5 take exit 142 B. Proceed west on South 348th St for 2 miles. South 348th changes to SW Campus Dr. at 1st Ave. The pool is on the right.

PAPER ENTRIES: Complete this form for a paper entry.

NAME: _______________________________________________ M F AGE: _______

ADDRESS: _________________________________________________________________

CITY: _____________________________________ STATE: _______ ZIP: ____________

PHONE _____________________Email__________________________________________

BIRTHDATE: _______/______/___________ USMS #: ___________-________________

Include a copy of your USMS Registration if not a PNA member

LMSC: (PNA, Oregon, Inland NW,

etc.)

PNA Club: (UC36, BWAQ, PSM, ROCK)

PSM Team:

ENTRY LIMIT: 6 INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (5 per day) PLUS RELAYS

Event # Event Name Entry Time

ENTRY FEE: Fees include WA State Sales Tax

SURCHARGE $35.00

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS + $3 Per Event. No charge for relays. No charge for seniors (65+) or need-basis

T-SHIRTS@$20

UNISEX SIZING + X Small Small Med Lg XL

T-SHIRTS@$22

UNISEX SIZING + XXL XXXL XXXXL

TOTAL $

Make checks payable to BWAQ. Mail to: Blue Wave Aquatics, PO Box 24083 Federal Way, WA 98093

Questions? Email Steve Freeborn at pnachamps@bluewave-aquatics.com Paper entries must be received by Sunday April 5th, 2015. Online entries are due by Midnight (PDT) Sunday April 5th, 2015. All swimmers must have a valid 2015 USMS (or foreign) registration prior to meet entry or submit an application accompanying this entry.

NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED AFTER SUNDAY APRIL 5TH, 2015 11:59 PM (PACIFIC TIME)

WAIVER: I, the undersigned participant, intending to be legally bound, hereby certify that I am physically fit and have not been otherwise informed by a physician. I acknowledge that I am aware of all the risks inherent in Masters swimming (training and competition), including possible permanent disability or death, and agree to assume all of those risks. As a condition of my participation in the Masters Swimming Program or any activities incident thereto, I hereby waive any and all rights to claims for loss or damages, including all claims for loss or damages caused by the negligence, active or passive, of the following: United States Masters Swimming, INC., the Local Masters Swimming Committees, the Clubs, Host Facilities, Meet Sponsors, Meet Committees, or any individuals officiating at the meets or supervising such activities. In addition, I agree to abide by and be governed by the rules of USMS.

Signature Date

____________________________ ___________

This is my first Masters meet