Future Swim Meets
USMS 1999 Short Course Nationals
United Airlines is the official airline for travel to Indianapolis. Call 800-521-4041 and refer to ID# 583BP to receive the discount.
The official meet entry form will appear in the January edition of Swim magazine.
2000 Munich World Championships
The dates for the 2000 World Masters Swimming Championship have been set. If you would like copies of the meet travel brochure send your name, club affiliation, address and number of Munich 2000 brochures requested to Ponte Vedra Travel, 110 Solana Road Suite 106, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 or geo@pvtapi.com. You also may call 800 833-SWIM [7946]. Ponte Vedra's web site is: http:\\www.pvtapi.com110
The Munich swim package will include nine nights accommodations at either the five star Bayerischer Hof or the Forum Hotel in Munich with breakfast daily, transfers to and from the airport, hotel meet registration, help desk, special VIP accommodations at the pool, tickets to all swim activities, a special city tour, and transportation to and from the pool daily. Two post meet excursions after the Championships are planned. Team discounts are available.
For more information on the meet itself, go to http://www.munich-2000.de. You may contact the meet organizers at
msm-masters@tonline.de or by phone at (49) 89 89 160 920.Tourist information is available at Munich_tourist_office@compuserve.com and tourismus@munchen.bts.de.
Masters Swimming in New Zealand
EF Sports Tours invites you to join their first ever Masters Swimming Tour to New Zealand. This thirteen day tour will include visiting the New Zealand countryside, and competing in the New Zealand Masters Games. The tour group will include masters swimmers of all ability levels from across the United States and will depart from Los Angeles the evening of February 2, 2000. Guests and families of athletes are also welcome to travel with the team.
If you are interested, have questions, or just want to find out more about the program or about EF Sports Tours, please call or email Kelly, at 1-800-577-6784 or kelly.james@ef.com
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USMS 2000 Long Course Nationals
The order of events for 2000 Nationals at UMBC is as follows:
August 17
800 freestyle
1500 freestyle
August 18
400 IM
50 back
200 freestyle
100 breast
200 fly
200 medley relay
200 free relay
August 19
400 freestyle (men)
50 fly
200 breast
100 back
50 freestyle
200 IM
200 mixed medley relay
August 20
400 freestyle (women)
100 fly
50 breast
200 back
100 freestyle
200 mixed free relay
The entry form will appear in the May 2000 issue of Swim magazine.
JCC Lox and Bagel Meet
The tentative date for the Jewish Community Center's Lox and Bagel short course meters meet is Sunday, April 16, 2000. The JCC also will hold a fall meet in November 2000, which will replace the 2001 spring meet. For more information, contact Matthew Alvin at
MattA@JCCNV.org.