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USMS Member Elizabeth Lowe Saves Lives in the Bay Area With Mobile COVID-19 Testing Clinic
Elizabeth Lowe and her mobile COVID-19 testing unit arrived in June at a residential care facility in Marin County, California, just outside of San Francisco. Outfitted with a repurposed commuter shuttle van and Home Depot toolboxes repurposed to tot...
USMS Member Andrea Ghez Receives Nobel Prize
UCLA Bruin Masters member Andrea Ghez received a Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.
How to Rebound From a Poor Performance
As it turns out, lingering disappointment is a risk for some swimmers after upsets in the water. Luckily, there are coaches and sports psychologists who know just what to do.
USMS Elects At-Large Directors and Honors Members at 2020 Annual Meeting
U.S. Masters Swimming has concluded its 2020 virtual annual meeting. In addition to committee meetings and rules and legislation reviews, USMS held at-large director elections and honored many of its deserving volunteers with service awards.
These Drills Will Strengthen Your Core and Improve Your Kick
Social kicking is great, isn’t it? These long kick sets done with kickboards, with your head above the water, are a great way to chat with your lane mates and enjoy bonding with your fellow swimmers. Swimming, as most physical activities, is mu...
How To Swim Open Water Year-Round
Winter is coming. Though you might be sweltering now, seasons will change and air and water temperatures will plummet. And as those currently cozy temps dip, many swimmers will be forced out of the oceans, lakes, and rivers and into indoor pools arou...
How to Draft in Open Water Races
As a well-documented slacker myself, I have been a lifelong fan of letting other people do the work while I reap the benefits. Therefore, I am a huge fan of drafting (in swims done when there’s not a global pandemic that necessitates social dis...
Five Swimming Kick Sets
Some swimmers enjoy kicking. Some do not. But all swimmers benefit from understanding how their legs contribute and from doing specific sets to enhance that contribution.
Why Distance Swimmers Should Be Sprinting
The workout is on the whiteboard at the end of the lane, probably in red marker because your coach knows it’s going to hurt. Twenty-five-yard sprints, a bunch of them, in IM order, so you know this involves butterfly, and there are long rest in...
