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Editor’s Note
Just Add Water
USMS News
Making Masters Fun
Sports Medicine
Swim for Fitness
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Buyer’s Guide: Fins and Paddles
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Entry Form: 3000/6000 Postal Championships
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Splashes
Portrait of a Grand Master
By Tito Morales. Gail Roper, a 1952 Olympian and Masters pioneer, looks at her swimming as an art. When I’m in a race, I’m trying topaint the perfect picture—with the perfect start, the perfect turn and the perfect everything -in-between.”
We Came to Tempe for the Waters!
By Meg Smath. Eighty individual and 12 relay national records were set at the Masters Short Course Nationals in Tempe, Ariz., where sizzling swimming matched the sizzling desert heat.
Fitness Is Everything
By Erik Hamilton. American fitness icon, Jack LaLanne, claims that swimming may be the best exercise possible.
Lane Rage
By Nan Kappeler. To keep peace in the pool during workouts, everyone should work together and not engage in turf wars.
A Desk Jockey’s Guide to Swimming Ocean Races
By Sherry Oshiver. Ocean swimming can teach you about risk taking, perseverance and personal limits.