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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 re-election/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

NJ LMSC VOLUNTEERS

Chair/Secretary Susan Kirk

908.313.6785 sqkirk@gmail.com Vice Chair

Chris McGiffin 908.630.0166 CMcGiff@aol.com

Treasurer Bill Reichle

908.587.2053 ReichsSwim@aol.com Co-Registrars

Tom Brunson 973.279.7153tombrunson@optonline.net

Chris McGiffin

908.630.0166 CMcGiff@aol.com Sanctions & Safety Chairman

Jen Bauman 973.219.9404 swimmerj@optonline.net

Top Ten Records Ed Tsuzuki

908.371.9179 edtsuzuki@comcast.net Newsletter Editor/Design

Sara Harrison Johnston 908.267.5494 aras33@comcast.net

Open Water Co-Chairs

Marie Vellucci 646.641.4236

marielovestoswim@aol.com Sarah Clark

201.248.5659 saritaylor71@gmail.com

Event Coordinator Lynn Ascione 201.825.0328

lynnascione@optonline.net Coaches Chair

Julie Schoenlank nyswim02@yahoo.com

FItness Chair: Linda Brown-Kuhn

908.479.1038 lindabk11@gmail.com Webmasters

Bridgette Hobart bhobart@ptcllc.com

Jason Pintinalli

jpintinalli@ptcllc.com Colleen Driscoll

distswim@aol.com Officials Chair

Marie Vellucci 646.641.4236

marielovestoswim@aol.com

Calendar 2016 Ongoing Events

January 1 - June 30

LMSC Virtual Fitness Swim ~~ Swim University. To sign

up contact Linda Brown-Kuhn at lindabk11@gmail.com.

January 1 - December 31, 2016

USMS Go The Distance 2016 Fitness Event. All 2016

USMS swimmers are eligible to enter this free event! Con-

tact information: Go The Distance Support

Team usmsgtd@yahoo.com 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 Provi-

dence, 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 fol-

low!

Quick links:

2016 USMS Pool Nationals

2016 USMS Open Water and ePostal National Champi-

onships

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, Feb-

ruary 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 regis-

tration 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 for-

ward 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!!

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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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

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

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS!

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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

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

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

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

JANUARY BIRTHDAYS!

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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

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

FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS!

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Photo credits: Nancy Goering and Carmen Rivera

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 in-

terested 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 lindabk11@gmail.com 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 de-

gree 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 lindabk11@gmail.com 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!

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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 scien-tifically 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, par-ticularly cardiologists along with practitioners in al-lied 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 figura-tively, in the wake of the deaths of her beloved par-ents and even of her beloved Labrador retriever, all in a short span of time. She began to fatigue, to ex-perience atrial fibrillations, leg swelling and edema of the lungs resulting finally an ejection fraction of

only 15% (normal 55-70%). Her doctors were talk-ing 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.

Backstroke, Then and Now By Paul Kiell

NJ Masters swimmer

Paul Kiell

backstroking,

1951

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 back-

stroke, 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 Hawai-

ian 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 gen-

tleman. It was always a great thrill to be in the same contest as Yoshi, even though the gap be-

tween our finishes would be around 20 seconds.

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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 swim-

ming,” which is as cold as it sounds),

dryland stretch cord workouts, weight

training, nutrition and stroke tech-

nique. 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

practice in the pool. After fifteen

minutes, I was joined by a very chatty

– 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)!

Olympic Gold Medalist Sheila Taormina leading a dryland

session at the USMS National Coaches Clinic

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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 en-joy 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 pialord@gmail.com

and I can send you a list of question prompts to assist you.

Thank you and happy swimming!

Pia Lord

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Happy Holidays NJ Masters!

And a healthy 2017!