Touring an astounding country and wrapping up the trip with a huge swim meet! Such an amazing adventure!
Yearly Archives: 2022
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When the officials arm goes up in the air during a race, they unfortunately are not just stretching…
Five athletes from Team Walker International Masters took the time to head south.
Thorbeckes 2023 New Year’s 10K Swim 100 X 100s on 2:00 = Total 10,000 meters100 X 75s on 2:00 = Total 7,500 meters100 X 50s on 2:00 = Total 5,000 meters
Many swimmers with abundant life experience undoubtedly recognize the lyrics from the black ‘n white Western TV series Rawhide.
BAMFest is the only Masters meet hosted in Kitsap County and was sorely missed by the local “West Side” swimmers in recent years.
Angle Lake Park was the site of this year’s Last Splash of Summer and of TWIM Fest, an annual meeting of our members.
TWIM is providing an elegant solution to correct my Butterfly deficiency, in the form of a swim clinic!
Every day is a gift and every adventure is a blessing.
About time we all got on our feet and put our hands together for Steve Fogg.
For the second year in a row, TWIM made the largest splash at the swimming venue during the Washington State Senior Games.
The Maccabiah Games in Israel are one of the largest sporting events on the planet, and our own Maoz Alsberg took them in.
The annual Fat Salmon swim returned (in person) this past weekend after a 2-year hiatus.
On Sunday, August 7 th at 9:00 a.m. TWIM Coach Voni Oerman will lead a cadre of stalwart aquatic warriors into the rather chilly waters of San Francisco Bay, as they escape from the Rock and stroke toward Aquatic Park, some 1.5 miles distant, and join the colossal fun of […]
Welcome to Dual-Sanction Meets! This past June 11 and 12, the 2022 Pacific Northwest MET-SEAL LCM Cannonball Classic, a dual sanction PNS-PNA meet, was held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center. The pool was set up in the less-common 50 meter Long Course configuration. Due to the enrollment of […]
The Tunisia Open Masters held its Fifth meet in Tunis, Tunisia between May 11 and 15. The LCM pool events were held the 11th thru 13th at a complex built for Olympic style events with multiple venues in one location. The indoor 50-meter pool also had an outdoor 50-meter pool […]
It all started on Friday the 13th… Triskaidekaphobia is a ten dollar word (maybe a thirteen dollar word?) which Scott trotted out in a recent blog post. About 735 senior athletes definitely had reason to wonder if fear of the number thirteen was a real or valid reaction to all […]
Reporting from San Antonio, TX, Spring Nationals April 28—May 1 The two oldest swimmers at Nationals last week were two women, 99 and 104 years old. I couldn’t help musing that they both must be excited to be aging up into new groups next year! Swimming alongside these amazing women […]
This past Saturday I had the opportunity to share a pool with more swimmers than I have been around in over 2 1/2 years and it was epic! The clinic was entitled “A Better Freestyle.” We were led by excellent coaches Tatiana Lemos de Lima and Brad Hering. Tatiana and […]
Two different nationals, to be precise! First, the USMS Summer Nationals in Old San Antone, close by the gates of the Alamo. Then the National Senior Games in Fort Lauderdale, FLA We are so proud of these truly outstanding swimmers and will be cheering each one of them on from […]