Chairman's Chat
by Mel Goldstein, GRIN LMSC Chairman
I hope everyone enjoyed the Holiday Season
and is looking forward to the rest of this year.
The New Year always brings excitement to
Masters Swimming, with many New Year’s resolutions,
and new goals to achieve. We’re already
well underway to a productive swimming year!
By the time you receive this newsletter, the
USMS One Hour Postalm hosted by YMCA Indy SwimFit and
the 4th Annual Ball State Invitational will have been completed.
In February, we had the IU Masters Meet.
There are a lot of upcoming events as well. March brings the Michiana Meet and our Greater Indiana Masters Swimming Championships with a new format. In April, we’ll see the annual Kendalville Meet, and the indoor season will come to an end with USMS Nationals in Austin, Texas, and the YMCA Masters Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in May. And of course, all year long we have the USMS “Check off Challenge,” hosted this year by our own NASTIs. I hope all of you will support these great Masters swim meets and Challenges. And speaking of challenges, there’s an upcoming 25K swim in July – see "MEETS" for info.
While our LMSC is consistently ahead of the USMS National average on retention of members and our LMSC continues to grow, it is still very important that we promote Masters Swimming as a program that provides a healthy lifestyle for all adults. Our LMSC has quarterly conference calls and I still would like to see greater participation. This is your LMSC and your input is important, if your team or you are not represented they or you should be. We cover a variety of topics that is of interest to all of us – please refer to the copy of minutes of the last two meetings included in this newsletter.
The next Greater Indiana Masters LMSC Conference Call Meeting will be Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at 8:00 pm. If you would like the agenda and the call in number, please e-mail or call me. Thank you, and enjoy your swims!
Mel Goldstein, GRIN Chairman