Masters Conference 2016 by Verity Dobbie

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Good afternoon,
We have to stop meeting like this

Masters Conference 2016

Published on Dec 28, 2015

Master Presentation 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

MASTERS

DECISIONS : DECISIONS

Good afternoon,
We have to stop meeting like this

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OUT OF HER DEPTH

BINGESWIMMER

Slide 2 out of her depth
I think that most of you know who I am, however for those of you who do not know me, my name is Verity and I chair the ASA Masters working group, and I was chair of the now defunct British Masters technical committee
What am I’m going to talk to you about today?

Well according to the blurb I’ve been billed as

'your host and keynote speaker who is going to enthrall you with tales of master swimming and her journey over the last year as chair of the Masters working group"
I don't know, this immediately raises two questions in my mind, 1 who writes this stuff in and
2 what parallel universe do they inhabit,
it almost makes masters governance sound interesting,

QUALIFYING TIMES

MASTERS DECISION MAKING

Now sadly for you I’m not sure I can guarantee to live up to my billing, but I will try my best and my hot button topics for today are

1. QT for National Championships
2. Decision making in Masters
3. Volunteering and ASA Masters Working Group

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NOT BRITISH SWIMMING

I think initially it's very important at this point that I draw the distinction between the ASA and British Swimming because they are two quite separate and distinct organisations, with different functions.

British swimming is a Federation of the 3 home countries England Scotland and Wales, and it deals with the performance end of swimming

Wikipaedia says the ASA was the first sport governing body of swimming to be established in the world and today remains the English national governing body for swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming.

The ASA deals with everything below that at an English level, i.e. clubs membership, et cetera I may be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs but there is a general tendency to confuse and conflate the two.

THE PROF

SUE ARROWSMITH

EDDIE RIACH

SCOTTISH MASTERS CONVENOR

QUALIFYING TIMES

MASTERS DECISION MAKING

IT'S LIFE JIM

But not as we know it

YORK 1981

1ST ASA NATIONAL MASTERS

1981 York 1st Masters Championships interesting event unrecognisable First proper in York 1981 21st November 35 years ago
1 day 3 sessions afternoon session 150 individual swims
50’s of each stroke E-G mens D- F womens
100’s of each stroke A-D in mens A-C in womens
IM for all age groups + mens 400 freestyle
Oldest man’s age group was 55, oldest woman’s age 50
Footnote full set of results available from D Stubbs for 50p (including postage!) Afternoon session had 153 individual swims
499 individual splashes 80 men and 40 women ?
7 pages of results

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BLACKPOOL 1982

1982 Blackpool moved to a 5 session event
Friday evening and 2 on Sat and Sun 50 and 100 of each stroke
100 IM and obviously realised women could handle distances because 400 free
for women
In fact the 3rd fastest time was Alyson Jones
Age groups went up to L 75 for men and 75 for women but 70 years top age
group
11 pages of results.

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ASA CHAMPIONSHIPS

1981 York North East
1981 Blackpool Northern
1983 Nuneaton Midlands
1984 Weymouth Western
1985 Barnet Southern

To start this,I'm going,to give you a history lesson in the evolution of the ASA CHAMPIONSHIPS

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SCARBOROUGH 1986

1986 Scarbrough
200 added back in we see the start of computerised results
21 pages of results
Interesting not just the event evolving but the quality of swimming this event featured a certain Craig Norrey made his Masters debut and swam 29.78 he swam 27.96 for a World record in the 55 years age group last month

Photo by Russell Watkins

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