Pacific Long Course Champs

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!)  

Because we all happen to be in the same age group, our main objective was to dominate the women's 45-49 year old relay scene - or at least, to show up for it and have a good time swimming together.  We came in second in the 200m free relay, with a time of 2:16.88, and, okay, we CRUSHED the 400m medley relay at 5:45.99!  (Yes, we won.  Yes, we were also the only all women's team entered from our age group.) 

And in the meantime, Cyndy, Marta, and Kim each pulled in some impressive individual performances as well.  Here's a summary of their results...

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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