Karin Bivens On March 17-18, the SaddleBrooke Swim Club hosted the first USMS Pool Distance Invitational at the Oro Valley Aquatic Center. This was the brainchild of Doug Springer and Jack Allison. The Meet consisted of a 1650 and 1000-yard swim on Saturday and a 1500 long course meters swim on Sunday. To qualify…
Rodger Bivens In January, the SaddleBrooke Swim Club announced a New Year’s fitness challenge “30-minute swim.” Any resident could sign up to take on the challenge, whether he/she was a member of the club or not. The event would take place between February 15 and February 28. The challenge was to swim for 30…
Lyn Moreno SaddleBrooke Swim Club once again dominated the Arizona Senior Olympics relay meet held at the Kino Aquatics Center in Mesa on March 11, 2018. The relay meet is one event in the Arizona Senior Olympics, which is a program of the Arizona Lifelong Fitness Foundation. The competition is for athletes over 50…
Harold E. Peter SaddleBrooke Swimmers were drawn on February 25 to the Chandler, AZ Mesquite Grove Aquatic Center to participate at the important qualifying meet for the Senior Olympics National Championship to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico in June of 2019. The qualifying meets are held in various parts of the USA. The…
Don Schaefer An unusual middle of the week swim meet in South Tucson at Clements Swimming Pool was on the schedule for 15 members of the SaddleBrooke Swim Team. Clements Pool is located not far from the Pima Air and Space Museum on the Pima C.C. East Campus. Swimmers came from Sun Lakes, Green…
Lyn Moreno Does this sound like you? “It’s been years since I swam, but I sure would like to swim laps for exercise, (insert weight loss, injury rehab or strength) but oh, to get in the pool again is scary. I am so out of shape. Not even certain that I remember how to swim…
Karin Bivens The SaddleBrooke Swim Club will once again be sponsoring the popular Easter Egg Hunt. The event will be held on Saturday, March 31 at the MountainView Clubhouse lawn area. Children will be divided into two groups with each group meeting in the Sonoran Room as a holding area prior to the hunt.…
Rodger Bivens New Year’s Resolutions about getting in shape for the year 2018 have been made…now it’s time to live up to them! Why not join in with the SaddleBrooke Swim Club’s winter fitness challenge 30-minute swim. Any SaddleBrooke resident can sign up to do it. The swim event will take place between February 15-February…
Phil Simpson One year ago your faithful poolside scribe reported that the SaddleBrooke Masters Swim Team was victorious in avenging a 2015 Haunted Halloween second best showing at the annual Ron Johnson meet held at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center on the Arizona State University campus. After licking their wounds for an entire year,…
Jill Fritz On Saturday, November 4, the SaddleBrooke Swim Club had a different type of swim work-out – all relays! Coach Doug Springer had all types of funny swimming contortions up his sleeve for us swimmers. We had teams assembled four to five swimmers in each lane. Then the fun began! One example was doing…