Last Sunday, four Cruz women attended the final day of the Pacific Long Course Masters' Championships  in San Mateo.  

Cyndy Hertzer, Marta Bechhoefer, Kim Lau, and Bridget Lyons camped out on the College of San Mateo's pool deck, quite happy to be enjoying MUCH warmer weather than the four of us did at our last meet (Short Course Champs - where we stood in the showers between events to avoid hypothermia!)  

100 Free - Kim Lau - 3rd place, 1.12.53
400 Free - Cyndy Hertzer - 2nd place, 5:27.87
                        Marta Bechhoefer - 3rd place, 6:05.11
50 Breast - Marta Bechhoefer - 2nd place, 44.42
200 Breast - Cyndy Hertzer - 1st place, 3:14.11
                            Marta Bechhoefer - 2nd place, 3:24.59
200 Fly - Cyndy Hertzer - 1st place, 3:27.03
200 IM - Cyndy Hertzer - 3rd place, 3:02.54
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On July 16 and 17, four CRUZers, including Coach Joel, headed to the USMS open water swims at Applegate Lake, about 30 miles southwest of Medford, Oregon.  On Saturday, we participated in either the National Championship 10K Swim or the 5K race.

 In the 10K swim, Cyndy Hertzer won her age group with a time of 2 hours and 39 minutes.  Marta Bechhoefer took third in the same age group with a time of 3:15.  Coach Joel won his age group with a time of 2:37.