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| Welcome to North Texas Masters Swimming |
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| North Texas Masters Swim Team (NTEX) is a year round adult swimming program offering anyone 18 years of age or older a fun, safe way to improve physical and mental well-being through swimming. Coached practices are held Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning expanding to other training opportunites as the team grows. NETX is for a wide range of swimming ability, from those just starting a swimming for fitness activity, those improving the swim portion of their triathlon, to those competing at the highest levels. |
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Required USMS Registration
In order for the North Texas Masters to use the Lewisville ISD Aquatic Center the coach and all of the participating members must be covered by INSURANCE. In order to obtain that insurance coverage each of US has to be a registered member of United States Masters Swimming (USMS). Please get your registration accomplished by completing the attached Registration FORM or by registering on line by going to www.usms.org and click on the link in the upper right corner of the HOME page. It takes just a FEW minutes to do it online. In addition to insurance your membership permits you to participate in all USMS Sactioned events and also includes the bimonthly USMS SWIMMER magzine that delves into training and technique for swimmers and provides leading-edge information that supports a healthy lifestyle, including tips on food and nutrition, cross-training and general fitness and health. |
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2012 Features:
Wednesday Multitudinous Distance workouts
Open Water Clinic/Campout,
Maui Channel Relay Swim,
Themed monthly workouts (every other month),
Swim meets (Zones SCY March 30 Southlake),
Group workouts (min. 2 x month),
Weekly technique/swim tip focus,
Clinics as part of workout
And any other ideas that might fly through our heads. |
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| UPCOMING and ONGOING EVENTS!! |
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Record Breaking Month
We now have current TEAM RECORDS for Short Course Yards (SCY), Short Course Meters (SCM) and Long Course Meters (LCM). You will notice that there are a lot of NO NTEX RECORD entries. This just means as of this date for the various 5 year age groups we do not have a recorded swim on file. So here is your CHALLENGE for February. Set a record or break a record by either swimming in the Masters meet Saturday and/or Sunday February 25/26 or ask a coach to time you in a CHALLENGE SWIM at practice. We will secure off a lane for your event and allow you to start from the block to go for your record setting performance. If you know of an existing swim you did as a member of NTEX and we do not have a time listed for you please let me or Elaine Disney, our TEAM RECORD keeper, know the circumstances.
NTEX Records LCM 2012
NTEX Records SCM 2012
NTEX Records SCY 2012
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SCY SWIM MEET
SMU pool and DAMM Swim will host two events the weekend of Feb 25 and 26. Saturday, February 25 – Meet warm-up at 11:00am, Meet start at 12:00 pm. Saturday’s events will run as a sanctioned USMS meet and results will be submitted to USMS records and Top Ten. Sunday, February 26 – Meet warm-up at 8:30am, Meet start 9:15am. Sunday's events are not USMS sanctioned and will not be submitted to USMS records (but will count for NTEX records). Tech suits are legal on Sunday! Sunday’s events will be categorized and awarded as follows: The Pentathlon: A 50 of each stroke plus a 200 IM. The Sprint Pentathlon: A 25 of each stroke plus a 100 IM. The Decathlon: Fastest combined time for all ten events.
More info at http://www.damswim.com/files/2012_spring_meet_info.pdf |
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FIRST TIME FREE
If the February SCY Meet is your first Masters swim meet you get to enter for FREE. Do not enter online or with me - go to: http://www.damswim.com/pages/first_meet_free_form to get your entry for NOTHING, ZILCH, NADA, ZIP, ZERO. |
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Go The Distance
If you haven't signed up for this FREE program then your warm up until you do is 2 x 400 fly. Get involved, start FLOGGING and help your teammates to reach OUR goal. February is a shorter month (but longer this year due to leap year). |
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Underwater Stroke Analysis
Underwater filming will continue until everyone has had a chance. From this point on please schedule a specific day with me and Coach Dave will try to get at least 3-4 at the same practice so he is not dragging all the equipment out for just one analysis. Email Coach Dave if you want to receive this valuable feedback tool. You can also let him know at practice.
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SWIM/RUN and SWIM ONLY EVENT APRIL 21 in The Colony
PlayTri, a local race organizer is hosting an aquathlon (swim and run) event at Hidden Cove Park in The Colony on April 21. There are several events: 300 meter Swim/1 mile Run, 750 meter Swim/5K Run, 1500 meter Swim/10K Run. There are swim only events which include 300m, 750m and 1500 m open water efforts. Swim takes place in Lake Lewisville in a protected cove at Hidden Cove Park. The run course is FLAT! Paved roads, out and back looped course. Get more information and sign up at:Play Tri Splash and Dash |
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NTEX Masters Swimming is Proud to Participate in the 2012
Maui Channel Swim: Lanai to Maui! |
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Maui Channel Update:
Group Hotel Block at the Sheraton Maui booking with DAM (Dallas Aquatic Masters). Hotel Prices are $250/day for a garden view, $278/day for an ocean view. This includes taxes, fees, parking, internet etc... You always have the option of staying somewhere else, this is just the most convienient hotel and should be the best price in the area by quite a bit. |
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Start saving now for an unforgettable experience of a lifetime!
JOIN A RELAY TEAM NOW!! We currently forming a team. Join us on this amazing adventure!
This relay race is timed and there are six swimmers per team. At the start of the race, each swimmer swims half-hour legs until all team members have raced. Then each swimmer swims a 10-minute leg until they cross the finish line. Every team has a dedicated escort boat. The boat captain acts as the navigator for each team. Swimmers compete in seven categories based on the ages and sexes of the team members. The grand prize goes to the first team to finish. It is a large, perpetual carved koa wood Duke Bowl. There are other perpetual trophies that go to the winners in many of the divisions. Swimmers on the top three teams in each division receive impressive Hawaiian swim towels with their division and place embroidered. Each swimmer also receives a custom-designed tee shirt.
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| For more information, contact Coach Dave or check out the website http://www.mauichannelswim.com
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USMS Registration:
Click here to register
U.S. Masters Swimming welcomes swimmers of all abilities who want to improve their overall fitness, develop better technique, or train for any type of swimming competition. If you want to get fit, become a better swimmer, stay motivated and meet new friends, U.S. Masters Swimming is the place to be. |
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MY USMS/FITNESS LOG (FLOG):
Fitness Logs (FLOGs)
U.S. Masters Swimming has released a new online service that is available exclusively for our members. Members may now track their swimming and other fitness activities via our new online Fitness Logs (FLOGs) tool. With this exciting new online service, you can log a wide variety of fitness activities such as swim workouts, running, weights and yoga on your flog calendar and track your weekly, monthly and annual totals online. Members who are participating in the popular 'Go The Distance' fitness event will also enjoy the convenience of having the data from their flog automatically included in the monthly event reports. |
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NIKE Go The Distance 2012:
(4741.043 miles to the Olympic Park in London)
NTEX is reactivating the GTD program for 2012 with a team goal of swimming to the aquatic venue in the Olympic Village in London in celebration of this Olympic year. In the past four years, GTD has become the fastest growing USMS program. GTD is a self-directed program intended to encourage Masters swimmers to regularly exercise and track their progress. There is no time limit for the distance milestones, except that they must be achieved in the calendar year 2012. Speed does not count - just the effort to attain whatever goal you set for yourself.
GTD is on the honor system - you track the distance you swim. You enter that information into your online Fitness Log (FLOG) - see previous paragraph. When you achieve certain milestones, ranging from 50 miles through 1500 miles, you will be recognized on the U.S. Masters Swimming website, in the monthly e-newsletter STREAMLINES, and receive special prizes from the title sponsor for the event, Nike Swim.
There is no cost to enter GTD. You may register for GTD through your FLOG in the My USMS section of the website. Even if you were entered in 2011 you must enter again in 2012 (after January 1st). Just click on on your FLOG and at the top of the monthly calendar will be a link to register - it literally takes one click to sign up for GTD. Once you've entered GTD, your results are automatically included in the daily summary reports.
Click on this link to get more information and to see a list of awards for the different distances - http://www.usms.org/fitness/content/gothedistance |
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NTEX TSHIRT DESIGN CONTEST
We need a team Tshirt - I just need rough general ideas and a slogan for the back - I have artists who can create a finished product so let the creative juices flow without worrying about having to draw something (unless you have that talent). Here are some possible slogans for the back of the shirt: "Age, deceit and treachery can defeat youth and skill." or "We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes." or "I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my husband to go swimming." Get the minds working - let's have a design by the end of January so we can premier them at the February swim meet. Winner gets credit printed on the tshirt and one month NTEX free. |
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Stories About USMS Swimmers featuring NTEX Swimmer Dennis Butts
Dennis Butts swims with North Texas Masters with coaches Dave Young and Anna Procious. Butts, owner of a property damage restoration company, and his wife Molly have two children. Read more... |
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