November/December 2016
NJ LMSC Board Volunteer transitions
Thank you to our continuing and outgoing volunteers
and welcome aboard new volunteers!
We would like to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to our outgoing NJ LMSC
Board volunteers; Lynn Ascione, Julie Schoenlank, and Bridgette Hobart/Jason Pintinalli. Your
shared passion, dedication, and work for Masters Swimming in NJ has helped to maintain our high
level of service to our members and is greatly appreciated! It has been a true pleasure serving with
you and we wish you all the best along your new paths!! Of course, if anything changes for you, we
would love to have you all back on our team!!
We are also very fortunate to have three new volunteers! Please join us in extending a warm
welcome to our newest NJ LMSC Board volunteers who are joining our team!
Events Coordinator ~~ Kim Plewa
Webmaster ~~ Marin Kirk
Newsletter Member Articles Contributing Editor ~~ Pia Lord
Congratulations to all returning NJ Masters Swimming Board Volunteers on your recent reelection/re-appointment!!
Chair: Susan Kirk
Vice-Chair: Chris McGiffin
Co-Registrars: Tom Brunson and Chris McGiffin
Treasurer: Bill Reichle
Top Ten/Records: Ed Tsuzuki
Newsletter Editor: Sara Johnston
Secretary: Susan Kirk
Sanctions & Safety Chair: Jen Bauman
Open Water Chair: Sarah Clark
Fitness Chair: Linda Brown-Kuhn
Officials Chair: Marie Vellucci
Website Content Review: Colleen Driscoll
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Front Page
NJ LMSC
VOLUNTEERS
Chair/Secretary
Susan Kirk
908.313.6785 [email protected]
Vice Chair
Chris McGiffin
908.630.0166 [email protected]
Treasurer
Bill Reichle
908.587.2053 [email protected]
Co-Registrars
Tom Brunson
[email protected]
Chris McGiffin
908.630.0166 [email protected]
Sanctions & Safety Chairman
Jen Bauman
973.219.9404 [email protected]
Top Ten Records
Ed Tsuzuki
908.371.9179 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor/Design
Sara Harrison Johnston
908.267.5494 [email protected]
Open Water Co-Chairs
Marie Vellucci
646.641.4236
[email protected]
Sarah Clark
201.248.5659 [email protected]
Event Coordinator
Lynn Ascione
201.825.0328
[email protected]
Coaches Chair
Julie Schoenlank
[email protected]
FItness Chair:
Linda Brown-Kuhn
908.479.1038 [email protected]
Webmasters
Bridgette Hobart
[email protected]
Jason Pintinalli
[email protected]
Colleen Driscoll
[email protected]
Officials Chair
Marie Vellucci
646.641.4236
[email protected]
Calendar 2016
Ongoing Events
January 1 - June 30
LMSC Virtual Fitness Swim ~~ Swim University. To sign
up contact Linda Brown-Kuhn at [email protected].
January 1 - December 31, 2016
USMS Go The Distance 2016 Fitness Event. All 2016
USMS swimmers are eligible to enter this free event! Contact information: Go The Distance Support
Team [email protected] More information.
January 1 - December 31, 2016
USMS "Check-Off Challenge" National Fitness
Event Event information.
New Jersey Events
Sunday, February 5, 2017 – 8am-noon --
The NJ Masters Swimming Annual 100 x 100s at the
Berkeley Aquatic Club Center of Excellence in New Providence, NJ.
Saturday, January 14, 2017 ~~
NJ Masters Swimming Annual 50 x 50s at the Berkeley
Aquatic Club Center of Excellence in New Providence, NJ
Saturday, March 18, 2017 – 6-10pm -The NJ Masters Swimming Annual Awards Banquet at
the The Dolce Hotel in Basking Ridge, NJ. More info to follow!
Quick links:
2016 USMS Pool Nationals
2016 USMS Open Water and ePostal National Championships
2016 Colonies Zone events
NJ Masters Swimming website
NJ Masters Swimming Facebook page
NJ LMSC 2016 Colonies Zone Open Water Calendar
US Open Water Swim Calendar
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2017 NJ Masters Swimming Annual 100 x 100s Sunday, February 5, 2017 8am - noon at the Berkeley Aquatic Club
Center of Excellence in New Providence, NJ The event is
FREE to any 2017 NJ LMSC USMS registered swimmer, but
the event will be limited to the first 100 eligible
swimmers. Online registration will begin on Wednesday,
January 4, 2017. Detailed event announcement and registration information will be forthcoming!!
NJ Masters Swimming 2017 Annual Awards Banquet
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Please join us as we celebrate and honour our 2016 NJ
LMSC USMS Continuous Membership Recognition Program
Award Recipients at the Dolce Hotel in Basking Ridge,
NJ. We are excited and honored to announce that the
guest speaker this year will be our NJ LMSC member,
Bridgette Hobart, an accomplished open water marathon
swimmer who was honored with the 2015 World Open Water
Swimming Woman of the Year Award. We are looking forward to Bridgette sharing her stories with us of her
journeys and what inspired her to return to swimming
with a bang! More information will be forthcoming!!
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It’s a birthday extravaganza!
November
December
January
And February
Birthdays
are all being celebrated in this issue!
Going forward, birthdays will be listed
before the actual date so you can
wish your fellow USMS swim friends
a happy day!
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NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS!
David Allred
Charles Archer
Briana Bacchetta
Norman Bartner
Jennifer Bauman
Zeev Bieder
Danielle Block
Brendan Bogues
Edward Breisacher
Richard Brown
James Bunn
Amy Campbell
Dongho Choi
James Christie
Paul Dattoli
Jassette Dawes
Peggy Delaney
Don Denny
Bonnie Doll
Kaitlin English
Marianne Eybye
Thomas Falconer
Norma Fallon
Rich Fernicola
Makiko Fliss
Lori Freeland-Morris
Judy Galayda
Matthew Gann
Katherine Gardner
Jeffrey Gold
Holly Goodman
Barry Grundleger
Zack Grundleger
Katharine Gullo
Mark Harding
Corin Harmon
Mary Hesselgrave
Ellen Hewitt
Martha Hostetter
Robert Huminski
Richard Infield
Cristina Judge
Denis Kallish
Scott Kersch
Rodger King
Marin Kirk
Suzanne Klein
Chet Klope
Yaman Kuban
Steven Levine
Kenn Lichtenwalter
Jill Loveland
Anthony Matteo
Kerri McCaffrey
Moira McCullough
Thomas McManus
Daniele Merlis
David Misiak
Elizabeth Mixon
Mary Molloy
Rohan Mukherjee
Patrick Mulligan
Kara Muscillo
Bob Nissen
Jonathan Olesky
James Parseghian
Robert Perkins
Lorenzo Pina
Rob Plucinski
Muhammed Pristell
Stephanie Purcell
Christine Rappa
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Barbara Rebak
Michael Recchia
Sarah Redding
Anne Rewey
Maureen Roche
Barbara Rosenbaum
Kelly Rosenzweig
Joel Rubenstein
Lauren Rudes
John Sabatino
Michelle Safir
Joan Salmon
Michael Satz
Donald Sawyer
Scott Selverian
Louise Senato
John Sheridan
Eli Tepperberg
Christopher Tognola
Leslie Trott
Matthew Vallone
Paul Van Valkenburg
Peter Ventura
Robert Votruba
Denise Webber
Adam Weiss
Kristin Wishnow
Guzide Zurak
DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS!
Stephen Albright
Kevin Anderson
Matthew Bach
Kurtis Baker
Jill Barbagli
Richard Barkan
Richard Bean
Amy Bechberger
David Berry
Ross Bluhm
Michael Brady
Kristi Braine
Kyle Brister
Elizabeth Bromley
Scott Burman
Mark Campbell
Kristen Champoux
Sue Charatan
Christopher Clarke
Anne Clewell
Richard Corash
Richard Costa
Ann Dandurand
Sharon Danzger
Charles Davidson
Christine DeLisser
Robert Dealy
Christine Dehnel
Albert Di Prizito
Timothy Dwyer
Brian Fagan
David Feldman
Jill Fernicola
Robert Fetter
Nancy Finn
John FitzSimons
Cassandra Fostik
Christine Gallo
Christopher Gazzo
Ernie Geib
Kristen Guth
Noel Hahn
Karen Harjes
Juli Harpell-Elam
Stephen Hawkins
Drew Heighway
Anthony Hughes
John Hunt
Patrick Jacques
Allison Jones
Carol Jordano
Daniel Kornick
Frank Kraljic
Anand Krishnan
Christopher LaBianco
John Laney
Michael Lehrer
John Lemmo
Daniel Lockenvitz
Ronald Loria
Thomas MacNabb
Joseph Mammano
Frank Manuella
Lawrence Maraldo
Eric Marquard
Carol Martyniuk
Julie Massa
Ken Miller
Janet Moeller
Mariel Montgomery
Carol Ann Murphy
Michael Murray
Olivia Myszkowski
Tom Nagy
Sharon Neimanis
Donna Newman
William O'Brien
Ryan O'Shaughnessy
Ashley Pertsemlidis
Laura Picardo
Jessica Pogogeff
Joanne Porro
Lee Pressler
John Purcell
Ignacio Quiles Lara
Amy Rappaport
Gabrielle Rasure
James Rawley
Joshua Raymond
Martin Restituyo
James Riccelli
Joann Rock
Leo Rosenholz
Joseph Sagginario
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Glenn Saunders
Vincent Savino
Pauline Schachner
Todd Schaper
Rick Schluter
Hillary Schmitt
Shelley Schubach
Jesse Seder
Mariann Senese
Heesun Shim
Anne Silverman
Sean Smith
Samantha Snyder
Stephen Soisson
Jenn Sommermann
Douglas Sorensen
Scott Stallwood
Allison Strohson
Spencer Sullivan
Jeffrey Terrell
David Thomas
Daniel Triolo
Dann Truitt
Ed Tsuzuki
Peter Van Nuis
Jim Vari
Richard Wallace
Andrew Wallace
Sarah Watson
Wendi Weber
Charlotte Wei
Wolfgang Wiesemann
James Williams
Dave Wissemann
Tammy Yates
Kelly Young
Arthur Zawodny
Benjamin Zhou
Brenda Ziegler
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS!
Andres Arias
Greg Bassett
Judy Baum
Leisa Begley
Michael Betts
Fay Bizub
Gregory Blessing
Richard Bogues
Timothy Bosse
Sandra Brighouse
Joscelin Burrer
John Callahan
Michael Caputo
Stephani Carroll
Andre Casanova
Alan Chodosh
Sarah Clark
Bobi Commer
Clare Cook
Richard Cruz
Denise Daugert
Lynn Davis
Joe Donohue
Keith Drayer
Kathleen Dunn
Victoria Elbrecht
Linda Erickson-Paul
Sarah Exposito
Jacqueline Fagan
Russell Fairchild
Bill Fallon
Gregory Fernicola
Alben Fischer
Carolyn Fischer
Jane Fisher
Richard Flores
Lisa Fritz
Joachim Fruebis
Suzanne Gamez
Lynne Ganley
Maggy Giunco
Jacqueline Glasser
Nancy Goering
Edward Goracy
Colette Gotfried
Melissa Grappone
Geoffrey Grice
Jonathan Grubb
Shruti Gupta
Pauline Gyllenhammer
Darek Hahn
Atsushi Hamanaka
Peter Hempel
Brig Henderson
Julie Heymann
Rajesh Kakani
Chris Karelus
David Kaufman
Kathy Kelly
Mingi Kim
Timothy Kostolansky
Bryan Krut
Irene Lam
Russel Lane
Joanne Lazzaro
Judith Lee
Wendi Lui
George Macchia
Francesca Mancuso
Keri Mandell
Lisa Mangino
Anthony Marcus
Ricardo Mattos
Amanda Maxwell
Michael May
Jessica McAloon
Curtis Miller
Scott Mitchell
James Mullooly
Maria Nobles
Pavel Nouel
Bernadette O'Connor
Sharon Dana Oley
Cande Olsen
Kim Patchett
Martina Pavlicova
Danielle Plagge
Kimberly Plewa
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Page 7
Lori Procopio
Joseph Puvogel
German Ramos
Bill Reichle
Elizabeth Robb
Christopher Rodrigues
Marie Russo
Timothy Salmon
Kevin Schmidt
Fang Schmitz
Bill Schroeder
Catherine Schurz
Leigh Segal
Nancy Shapiro
Philip Sherratt
Cathy Signorin
David Simon
Rachelle Slater
Sabrina Smith
Oni Strother
Jennifer Sullivan
Brian Sullivan
John Szabo
Susan Thiel
Thomas Toomey
Richard Truche
Joy Tsuzuki
Lynn Tsuzuki
Adele Vespa
Jens Volker
Philip Von Schondorf
Ali Wade
Steven Waskow
Sharon Waxmonsky
Geoffrey Wells
Ken Wilson
Michelle Wriede
Jeff Ziegler
FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS!
Jodi Alper
Benjamin Ancher
Dennis Andal
Paul Anderson
Marilyn Anker
Russ Ball
Benjamin Balmy
William Beversluis
Anthony Bosco
Daniel Bower
Neil Bradshaw
Corinne Buda
Matthew Callman
Gary Cameron
Richard Carlson
Denise Carlson
Dan Chamby
Deborah Cipriano
Lucinda Cohen
Neil Conley
Raymond DeWire
Christina Deschaine
Seth Dressekie
Betsy Eickelberg
Jeacqueline Escobar
Christopher Esnes
Janet Estenes
Brianna Farfel
Michele Fenice
Kevin Feyen
Olympia Fiedler Lord
Robert Fisch
Frank Fitzgerald
Jennifer Freeman
Nathan Friedman
Rosemarie Froeder
John Giannasca
Laura Gibson-Rimer
Ronald Gilbert
Stephen Gillespie
John Giordano
Michael Goldberg
Yumei Guo
Jon Halpern
Lurlene Harrison
Susan Hubert
Mark Hutcheson
Jamie Hyrkas
Jane Ikeda
Joanne Jaeger
Nancy Johnson
Christy Johnson
Christina Johnson
Jeffrey Jotz
Alexander Kardis
Kevin Kelly
Michael Kerr
Brendan King
Sally Kleeman
Mark Kruzel
Brian Kusterer
Dawn Larkin
Michael Lavitt
Nancy Lester
Peter Levin
Ryan Lewis
Robert Lincoln
Craig Lockner
Wei Ma
Natalie Madray
Ashley Mak
Erika Maresca
Kurt Matheson
John McCarthy
John Menninger
Thomas Miller
James Milone
Ryan Milun
Drew Moll
James Moriarty
Lorenz Muller
Gerald O'Mara
Michael O'Neill
Jason Orlando
Louis Osborn
Keith Paterson
Jeanne Perantoni
Indrek Porro
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Page 8
Paula Poulafearh
Heidi Remak-Ziff
Lesley Rhoden
Rob Ripp
Jennifer Roche
Susan Roman
Catherine Ruiz
Nicholas Russo
Nicole Sabbatino
Carla Scaturro
Keith Scharfschwerdt
Julie Schoenlank
Richard Schubert
Cathy Schwerdt-Allen
Scott Seibel
Patricia Sener
Kyle Severson
Jeremiah Sheehan
Ann Shortino
Murray Simon
Thea Skanes
Anne marie Stahurski
Kellie Stamm
John Steinmuller
Caitlin Stroh
William Sullivan
Keith Tamboer
Richard Tang
Wojciech Telacki
Alane Theofield
Yuta Tsuboi
Faith Ulsh
Larry Van Horn
Courtney Welsh
Amy Wheeler
Jackie Whitty
Xiaohang Xu
Mary Young
Evelyn Yuen
Sarah Zucco
Sixth Annual 50 X 50’s Slated for January 14
Start 2017 right by swimming in the Sixth Annual 50 X 50’s on Saturday, January 14th from
9- 11:30 am. Once again this swim, sponsored by the NJ LMSC, is FREE to all registered 2017
USMS swimmers.
This year we are changing the venue and are pleased to announce that the swim will be
held at the fabulous Berkeley Aquatic Club at 629 Central Ave, New Providence, NJ 07974. We
will have 5 long course 50-meter lanes for those swimming the 5 fastest intervals and 3 short
course 25-yard lanes for more novice swimmers.
As we did last year, we are offering a mini freestyle clinic from 9-9:30 for those who are interested in tweaking their technique. The 50 X 50’s will begin at 9:30 and refreshments will be
available after the swim. To register, email Linda Brown-Kuhn at [email protected] with your
name and 2017 USMS registration number. The event is open to the first 60 swimmers.
Swim University is Returning ~~
The Third Year Should be a Charm
Swim University’s inaugural class of 2015 had 33 swimmers who
logged in 5,456.93 miles. Mighty impressive. Swim University 2016’s 39
graduates swam 6,583.37 miles! For Swim University 2017 let’s aim for
more than 7,000 miles!
We welcome alumni to enroll again and better their mileage and
newbies to see what kind of degrees they can earn. Here’s how it works:
Swim University starts January 1 and runs to June 30th. All you do is
swim as much as you can and keep track of your mileage by using USMS’s Go the Distance log
which you must sign up for first. So during those six months if you swim 30 miles you’ll earn your
Associate’s degree, 60 miles will get you a Bachelor’s degree, if you log in 120 miles you’ll have a
Master’s degree and for 240 miles you’ll become a PhD in swimology!
This is a wonderful way to push yourself during the cold winter months when it’s not always
so easy to trundle to the pool! We challenge those who participated last year to go for a higher degree this year and for those PhD’s out there, try for a higher-mileage PhD. And we’re looking for a
whole new crop of swim students too!
At the end of the swim you’ll receive an official unofficial diploma for whatever level of swim
fitness achievement you attained plus we’ll have some goodie available, maybe a custom sling
bag or cap.
To sign up, email Linda Brown-Kuhn at [email protected] with your USMS # and make
sure you are participating in Go The Distance (find info at www.usms.org ) so you can log in your
swims from January 1 to June 30 with a July 7 deadline for entering yardage.
What degree will you go for? They are all homework free!
Photo credits: Nancy Goering and Carmen Rivera
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Page 9
Swimming in the Sink:
An Episode of the Heart
Review by Paul Kiell
The author, Lynne Cox, is an elite athlete who has made her mark in frigid
open water swims. She first swam the English Channel at fifteen and was the first
woman to swim across Cook Strait (eighteen miles). Of particular note, she was first
to swim off Antarctica in 32-degree water, without
benefit of wetsuit, for twenty-five minutes.
Swimming in the Sink begins when she is
studied at a laboratory at the University of London.
Her extraordinary human capabilities studied scientifically in ice-cold water, would pave the way for
new medical and life-saving practices.
But there is the element of serendipity here, an
element that should be of interest to physicians, particularly cardiologists along with practitioners in allied fields. This strong-hearted woman became a
victim of “Broken Heart Syndrome.”
We’re all familiar with expressions like “it broke
her heart when . . ..”
For Lynne, her heart was broken, literally and figuratively, in the wake of the deaths of her beloved parents and even of her beloved Labrador retriever, all
in a short span of time. She began to fatigue, to experience atrial fibrillations, leg swelling and edema
of the lungs resulting finally an ejection fraction of
only 15% (normal 55-70%). Her doctors were talking to her about a heart transplant. Imaging showed her heart’s pumping chambers
enlarged and dilated.
The title of the book tells of the times she would actually move her hands and
arms in a filled sink, “baby steps” in her determination to recover.
Inspiring is her path to total recovery, motored by excellent medical care,
friendship, and the elements of her person that made her a championship athlete.
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Page 10
Backstroke, Then and Now
By Paul Kiell
The image below is of me in a 200-yard backstroke race, January 1951. It was a dual meet
between my college, Washington and Jefferson, and Bethany College. It took place at the 4-lane
20-yard Washington and Jefferson College pool.
Backstroke technique consisted of a straight-arm, elbow-locked recovery, and palm down
making it easier to shed water. Then the placement the hand at a 45˚ angle from the head, palm
down with subsequent arm pull consisting of a slight twist of the hand followed by another straight
-arm elbow-locked sweep of the arm 4-6 inches below the water’s surface.
For the turn, just as in freestyle then, you’d have to touch the wall. In backstroke you’d do a
semi-pivot, semi-somersault. Today, besides the variations in turning, in both freestyle and backstroke, the elbow is unlocked and the propulsive thrust of the forearm is perpendicular rather than
parallel to the surface of the water.
At the time, the world record holder for the 100-yard backstroke was Adolph Kiefer at 58:8
seconds. His 1936 Olympic record for the 100m was 1:05.9 and his world record time the same
year was 104.8. Kiefer’s original Olympic record was broken at the 1952 Olympiad by the Hawaiian born Yoshi Oyakawa. His time was 1:05.4
Oyakawa has been called the “last of the straight-arm backstrokers.” He is about three
years younger than me and is still competing in master’s events. There would be at least one year
we’d be in the same YMCA master’s backstroke events. He is a fine man, low keyed and a gentleman. It was always a great thrill to be in the same contest as Yoshi, even though the gap between our finishes would be around 20 seconds.
NJ Masters
swimmer
Paul Kiell
backstroking,
1951
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Page 11
2016 National Coaches Clinic Recap
By Jeff Jotz
In November, Ed Tsuzuki, Chris McGiffin and I descended on a warm, sunny San Francisco
Bay Area to attend the second annual USMS National Coaches Clinic. We were joined by over a
hundred Masters swimming coaches from across the U.S. (including Alaska).
The clinic has grown exponentially since its inception last year and attracted coaches who
oversee a wide variety of workout groups and abilities. The clinic was held at the beautiful College of
San Mateo and its outdoor, 20-lane (SCY) pool.
The subject matter tackled included a comprehensive history of open water swimming
(including the new sport of “ice swimming,” which is as cold as it sounds),
dryland stretch cord workouts, weight
training, nutrition and stroke technique. I found the weekend’s most
useful session to be classroom time
followed by pool sessions learning flip
turn drills and IM transition turns. Flip
turns and streamlining off the wall are
two areas that our workout group in
Cranford needs to address and shortly
after returning to New Jersey, I began
to implement some of the items I
learned in that workshop in the pool
with our swimmers.
Saturday morning included a morning
Olympic Gold Medalist Sheila Taormina leading a dryland practice in the pool. After fifteen
minutes, I was joined by a very chatty
session at the USMS National Coaches Clinic
– and fast – swimmer who I soon
would realize was former Olympic gold medalist Sheila Taormina. Coach Taormina led sessions on
freestyle technique and proper use of stretch cords. She is best known as the first woman to qualify
for the Olympics in three different sports (swimming, triathlon and modern pentathlon) and compete
at four Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008)!
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Dear NJ LMSC members and fellow swimmers,
Do you have a wonderful swim experience you
could share in the newsletter? Did you particularly enjoy swimming, a swim training experience or endeavor,
or other swimming related activities that you might
write about for an upcoming monthly publication?
It can be as general or as detailed as you have time
for keeping in mind that it might be of interest to the
readers of the NJ LMSC.
If interested, please email me at [email protected]
and I can send you a list of question prompts to assist
you.
Thank you and happy swimming!
Pia Lord
November/December 2016• www.njmasters.org • Page 13
Happy Holidays
NJ Masters!
And a healthy 2017!
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