Allison Lehman The weekend of August 6 and 7, 2016, five SaddleBrooke Swim Team members participated in the Arizona Masters State Long Course swim meet at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Both days proved to be a challenging meet for all five swimmers. Each spent time preparing and training on his/her own. This included…
The SaddleBrooke Swim Club has always welcomed swimmers of all abilities and skill levels but, for many SaddleBrooke residents, the idea of jumping into the pool beside one of the state championship swimmers was intimidating. To eliminate this fear, the club decided to offer the Let’s Swim program in July to provide an opportunity for…
Phil Simpson On April 26 SaddleBrooke’s DesertView Pool was the site of a truly remarkable event as the SaddleBrooke Swim Club hosted a U.S. Masters Swimming sanctioned meet open only to centenarians, those swimmers 100 years of age and over. The atmosphere at DesertView was electric as an up-tempo sound tract provided by David Fuller…
Phil Simpson On the weekend of April 2 and 3, 50-plus members of the SaddleBrooke Swim Club’s U.S. Masters Swim Team ventured north to Paradise Valley to compete in the Arizona State Short-Course-Yards Championship Meet, hosted by the Phoenix Swim Club. In a record setting, eye popping performance, Coach Doug Springer’s intrepid natators dominated the…
Phil Simpson Members of the SaddleBrooke Swim Club are known to be a very close-knit, “all for one, one for all,” force to be reckoned with in Senior Olympics and U.S. Masters competitive swimming. On Saturday, February 13, 38 SaddleBrooke swimmers found themselves in the uncharacteristic position of facing off against one another as two…
SaddleBrooke Swim Club assembled a relatively small team of 28 swimmers to race at the twenty-fifth annual Polar Bear Swim Meet hosted by Tucson’s Ford Aquatic Swim Club at University of Arizona on January 25. While official team and individual scores were not tabulated, indications are that the team finished a close second to the…
US Masters Swimming, or USMS, has three swim competition seasons: Short Course Yards (SCY), which is swum in a 25 yard pool, Short Course Meters (SCM), swum in a 25 meter pool, and Long Course Meters (LCM), swum in a 50 meter pool. SaddleBrooke Masters, the competitive arm of the SaddleBrooke Swim Club, has achieved…
The International Federation for Swimming (FINA) held its biannual international world championship swimming for Masters Swimmers in Montreal, Canada, this summer. Over 5,700 senior swimmers from 97 nations showed up to test their skills against a world class set of competitors. SaddleBrooke’s own Harold Peter arrived in Montreal in early August determined to compete against…