Pacific Masters Short Course Championships

Yup, it was cold!

Fifteen CRUZ'ers headed to Moraga, CA last weekend for the annual Pacific Masters Short Course Championships.

Seventy-five teams sent representatives to the meet, and 734 swimmers entered races. With three days' worth of events and a lot of heats in the more popular ones, there were 2613 individual event splashes.  That's a lot! You can see all the meet stats at this link.

​Suffice it to say that the deck was pretty crowded, but Joel brought our team pop-up tent and we were able to stake out some poolside real estate for the show.  Given the rainy and cloudy weather, we spent some quality time huddled under the tent - that is, when we weren't warming up, cooling down, cheering each other on, or standing in the showers trying to warm up the artificial way.  

That's Chris Tainty on his way to winning the 200IM!

Marta Bechhoefer, focused.

As a team, Santa Cruz Masters came in 4th place in the medium-sized team division with 1175 points.  

There were individual high point rankings as well, which you can check out at this link. Chris Tainty was our highest individual finisher, coming in second overall in his age group. 

Here are our individual results....

1650 FREESTYLE
James Lamb         19:04.32    1st place
Chris Tainty          19:19.66    1st place
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400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY
Chris Tainty           5:01.16      2nd place
Coach Joel:            5:03.22      1st place

​200 FREESTYLE
James Lamb          1:56.43      1st place
Coach Joel             2:09.75      2nd place

500 FREESTYLE
Cyndy Hertzer     5:53.46    2nd place
Marta Bechhoefer     6:32.62    4th place
​James Lamb           5:21.37    1st place
John Parker           6:05.21     3rd place
Chris Tainty           5:40.19     2nd place
Coach Joel             5:45.94     1st place

Tesla rockin' the 200 fly

50 BACKSTROKE
Chris Tainty             :30.31      3rd place

200 IM        
​Cyndy Hertzer     2:33.68    3rd place
Bridget Lyons       2:41.76    6th place
John Parker           2:33.80    3rd place
James Lamb          2:16:16    2nd place
Chris Tainty           2:22.85    1st place
Coach Joel             2:27.82    2nd place

200 BACKSTROKE
Chris Tainty           2:20.27    2nd place
Cyndy Hertzer    2:42.59    3rd place

James Lamb's breast stroke leg of his 2nd place 200IM

50 BUTTERFLY
Bridget Lyons         32.20       7th place
John Parker             28.72       8th place

100 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY
​Bridget Lyons      1:14.49     6th place
David Cole               :57.99     2nd place
David Roberts    1:04.51     7th place

50 FREESTYLE      
Kimberly Lau          30.14      7th place
David Cole               23.11      1st place
Zach Stockwell      26.58     12th place
Jarret Winter         23.60      1st place
Kurt Wilson             23.89     1st place

100 BREASTROKE    
Marta Bechhoefer    1:22.17    3rd place

Bridget trying to look like a superhero in her first tech-suit ever...

Coach Joel flying!

200  BREASTROKE
Cyndy Hertzer           2:48.52    1st place
Marta Bechhoefer   2:57.11    4th place

100 BUTTERFLY
Bridget Lyons             1:10.93    3rd place
Cyndy Hertzer          1:14.78    7th place
John Parker                1:07.71    6th place
Chris Tainty                 1:03.76    4th place

100 FREESTYLE
Kimberly Lau              1:05.49    5th place
Marta Bechhoefer   1:09.44    7th place
Zach Stockwell             :54.02    6th place
Jarret Winter                :52.69    1st place
Kurt Wilson                    :55.87    3rd place
Coach Joel                      :59.92    5th place

50 BREASTROKE
Bridget Lyons                :37.76    2nd place
Marta Bechhoefer      :38.85    6th place
David  Roberts             :30.76    3rd place

200 BUTTERFLY
Tesla Profumo             2:33.11    1st place
Coach Joel                    2:32.54    1st place

100 BACKSTROKE
David Cole                       :56.86    1st place

1000 FREESTYLE
Tesla Profumo          11:30.96    1st place
Bridget Lyons           13.11.84    2nd place
Marta Bechhoefer 13.23.00    3rd place
Coach Joel                 11:53.25   1st place

Streamlined Joel...

RELAYS
MIXED 200 MEDLEY RELAY
Chris Tainty--backstroke
Marta Bechhoefer--breastroke
Bridget Lyons--butterfly
John Parker--freestyle   2:08.49  4th place 45+

200 FREESTYLE RELAY--WOMEN
Tesla Profumo
Bridget Lyons
Allison Athens
Kimberly Lau        1:56.74    3rd place   25+

400 MEDLEY RELAY--WOMEN
Allison Athens
Marta Bechhoefer
Bridget Lyons
Kimberly Lau        4:58.50   2nd place  35+

400 MEDLEY RELAY--MEN
David Cole
David Roberts
Zach Stockwell
Jarret Winter        3:55.75    1st place

200 FREESTYLE RELAY--MEN
David Roberts
Zach Stockwell
David Cole
Jarret Winter        1:35.08    2nd place    35+

​In addition, there were awards for Swimmer of the Year, and our own Cyndy Hertzer was honored as Swimmer of the Year in the Women's 45-49 Age Group!

We couldn't get her to pose with her certificate, but here's the sneaky picture taken when she was off winning some event...