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Lorraine Grix, 56, swims for Michigan Masters. She grew up in the Detroit area and still lives there today. Never having had access to a pool or a lake while she was growing up, Lorraine didn’t...
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Meet GTD Swimmer Katherine Clarke
by Suzi Green
Katherine Clarke, 68, swims with the Gulf Coast Pirate Swimmers in Pensacola, Fla. She’s lived there for 20 years, but she and her retired airline...
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Cindy Perkins, 59, lives in Fresno, Calif., and works as a medical librarian. She didn’t swim growing up. She discovered Masters swimming in the early 1980s in Los Angeles. Since she doesn’t...
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USMS honors Leslie Scott with a 2012 Kerry O'Brien coaching award: "You have proven that vision, enthusiasm, and persistence are a hard combination to trump. Seeing one discontinued program as an...
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USMS honors Laura Schuster with a 2012 Kerry O'Brien Coaching award: "For over ten years, Mountain View Masters has benefited greatly from the services you have provided to the organization, both on...
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The growth of adult swimming in the California central valley since 2004, be it for fitness or competition, is due in large part to Kurt Olson's ability to envision what could be, commit to making it...
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Based out of Florida, the Villages Aquatic Swim Team Masters are an enthusiastic group of Masters swimmers over the age of 50. With 44 years of coaching experience, Gary Henderson uses his influence...
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