Palmetto Masters Swimming
September Newsletter
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Swim with the best......or swim like the rest!!
Welcome to our new members!!
- Shi Higgins- Danny Jones
- Daina Hill- LTP
- Kat Leque- Danny Jones
- Pat Ramano- MLK
- Gilbert Reeves- Danny Jones
- Brittany Taylor- LTP
- Jamie Zazella- MPRD
Growler Invitational was a hit!!
If you missed this meet, you missed a great event! We had a total of 96 people registered, ages 21-84. For it being the hottest weekend of the summer, we managed to keep everyone cool with plenty of shade, just -for -fun relays, ice bucket challenges, in-between-swim dips, and best of all were the growlers after the meet! We have received many emails and comments about how much fun our visitors had and the officials came away with a newfound respect for masters swimming. Great job everyone and like many others, I look forward to it again next year!
Just one of the comments we have received:
"I just wanted to send a quick note to thank you and your entire staff for putting on such a great meet. We had a great time! Wonderful facility, friendly volunteers and a efficiently run meet. Word has already spread through the rest of the GSMS team and we look forward to coming down again. Bravo on a job well done and thank you again for everything. Best regards Joel Schmaltz" (Grand Strand Masters)
Palmetto Masters 1st Place
Beaufort Masters 2nd Place
Sun City Masters 3rd Place
Don't you want one??
Palmetto Masters National Team ROCKS at the LCM National Championships
We had 6 swimmers on our national team this year
- Jay Brzezinski
- Ebby deHerder
- Jamie Wilson
- Kari Yocum
- Erin Moro
- Mike Malik
The team finished 14th out of 150+ teams (with only 6 swimmers)
The women's team finished 7th overall (with only 4 women)
9 National titles were won (2 were the women's relays-all others were individual)
19 South Carolina state records were broken (some dating back as far as 1987)
2 Dixie Zone records were broken
They placed in 36 out of 37 events swam.
Way to represent Palmetto Masters and South Carolina!!!
Sandy O'Keefe wins the James Island Sprint Triathlon Series!
Siobhan Maize finishes 1st in Masters Womens division and 12th overall in the Homestead 10x5K Ultra
Nominations/Elections
Nominations were taken during the picnic this past weekend. At this time there is only one nomination for each position.
President- Cathy Kenner
VP/Secretary- Erin Moro
Social Chair- Jenny Pulliam
Registrar- Jennifer Cranny (rolling over)
Treasurer- Jim Chilton (rolling over)
Nominations will be open until September 13th. If no other nominations are submitted the board will be set and there will be no need for a formal election. Please submit any other nominations by the 13th to palmettomastersSC@gmail.com
Family Summer Picnic!
Save the Date!!
The SCM Championships will be held in Columbia the weekend of December 5th. We need to defend our title! Here is the pep talk from Jay Brzezinski that was posted on Facebook.
"OK swimmers. Its an off season. LCM is over and its 3 months until SCM state meet on Dec 5. Stay in shape, work on your strokes. Good luck to the many beasts swimming open water events. I think any thing less than 60 growlers for the Columbia SCM state meet in Dec would be embarassing. We are defending champs you know. Plan ahead! We need new blood so if you have not swam in a meet for us, this is something to shoot for. Veterans, don't whimp out!! Kari doesn't want to hear, "Oh its my kids birthday". Matt Mauer doesn't want to hear "USC is playing that week". Lets do this!"
More information to come soon!!