Upcoming Events
Patriot Masters Sprint Classic Meet
By Drew Moll
On Sunday, October 22, the Patriot Masters will host their "Sprint Classic" swim meet. The meet will include 50 and 100s of each stroke, plus the 200 Free and 200 IM for "distance" events. Also included, but not as part of the sanctioned meet, will be 25s for all the drop-dead sprinters. And for the truly speed-crazed, there will be a 25 "anything goes." The meet will be swum in a 25 yard course set up within George Mason University’s 50 meter competition pool, located in Fairfax, Virginia. The pool has been very fast, with numerous Colonial Athletic Association records having been broken there this last year during the conference championships.
This meet has not yet been sanctioned, but an announcement will be coming out soon. Keep that date open! Warm-ups will start at 9 AM, and the meet will start at 10 AM.
The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center "Plunge for Patients"
A one-mile fun walk, 5K & 10K beach runs, Beyond the Breakers novice swim, and 1 & 3 mile ocean swims will be held June 24 to benefit the Johns Hopkins Patient and Family Fund.
The events will be hosted by Morey’s Piers, in cooperation with the North Wildwood, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest Beach Patrols.
For additional information, contact Viki Altomonte at 410-502-5395, or altomvi@jhmi.edu. On line registration is available at www.active.com and entry forms are available at www.lmsports.com.
2002 World Championships
Christchurch, New Zealand has been awarded the 2002 FINA World Masters Swimming Championships. The meet will be held March 29-April 11. For more information, check FINA's web site: http://www.fina.org/mastersnews_Corganisation.html.
2002 World Masters Games
The World Masters Games will be held in Melbourne, Australia in October 2002. The Games web site is http://www.2002worldmasters.org.