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On Going

Gulf Sanctioned & Approved Events:

January 1-December 31, 2008 — (New; 1/24/2008)
USMS "Check-Off Challenge" National Fitness Event
PST
Hosted by the USMS Fitness Committee
http://www.usms.org/fitness/2008checkoff.pdf

May 15 - September 15, 2008 — (New; 9/20/07)
USMS 5&10 Km Postal Championships
PST
Bob Bruce
541-317-4851
coachbob@bendbroadband.com

September 15 - November 15, 2008
USMS 3000/6000 Yard Postal Championships
PST
Mark Gill
480-784-7112
markgill@usms.org

2008

April 15-25, 2008 — (New; 7/15/2007)
XII FINA World Masters Championships
LCM
Challenge Stadium
Perth, Western Australia
Complete info/entry available at: http://www.2008finamasters.org/

April 26, 2008 — (New; 1/24/2008)
Rice Aquatics Open Water Carnival
OPN
Twin Lakes, Manville, TX
Seth Huston, 713-348-4710, shuston@rice.edu
www.riceaquatics.com
Sanctioned by GMSC

May 1-4, 2008 — (New; 9/20/07)
USMS 2008 Short Course Yards National Championships
SCY
Texas Swim Center
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Charles Logan
512-471-7703
charles.logan@austin.utexas.edu
www.usms.org/comp/nationals.php

July 26-27, 2008 — (New; 1/24/2008)
South Central Zone LCM Championships
LCM
The Woodlands, TX
Nancy Crecelius, 832-289-4267, nacrecelius@gmail.com
Sanctioned by GMSC
Meet information and Entry Form

August 14-17, 2008 — (New; 9/20/07)
USMS Long Course Meters Nationals
LCM
Mount Hood Community College
Mount Hood, Oregon
Dennis Baker
503-679-4601
bakeswims@yahoo.com
www.usms.org/comp/nationals.php

Other Resources

Check the USMS web site for the complete USMS Calendar of Events and the complete USMS Long Distance Calendar. Also, see the Long Distance Web Site. Swimmers can get entry forms and results for the Long Distance National Championships there as soon as they're available.

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Submit Calendar Information/Updates

The information contained in this page is compiled by Emmett Hines. Changes to this list may be sent to him
via e-mail.

If you are aware of other items that should be on this list — such as a meet, or if your club is hosting a clinic, etc. — contact Emmett Hines with the details and he’ll add it to this list. Please be sure to include the contact person, phone number, email and website where complete info can be obtained.

Meet Directors may send their complete meet info and entry form — in either Acrobat .PDF or Microsoft Word file format — for us to post directly on this site. Sorry, no hard copy can be handled.

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URL: http://www.gulfmastersswimming.org
Revised: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

For more information about:
USMS, contact the National Office at usms@usms.org.
GMSC, contact Emmett Hines