Pacific Masters Open Water Challenge

How does it work? For every Pacific Masters sanctioned open water swim that a Pacific Masters swimmer successfully completes beginning with the 2021 season, that swimmer will receive credit for one swim. Complete 5 total open water swims successfully, and the swimmer earns "Trout" status. The swimmer will elevate to "Manatee" with the 10th successfully completed swim, and so on. There is no need to sign up for the Challenge. Your entrance into the Challenge, point tallies, and movement up through the five recognition tiers are automatically tracked for you as results are tabulated from each Pacific masters open water race.
Guidelines:

• A swimmer can compete in both Suit category 1 and 2. All Open Water swims ("wetsuit" and "non-wetsuit") count for this challenge.
• All successfully completed sanctioned swims longer than 500m count.
• When swimming at a festival (for example, Lake Berryessa, Del Valle, Santa Cruz, or Keller Cove) each event swum counts as one swim.

Achievement Patches:
Beginning June 1, 2024, at Lake Berryessa, and continued throughout each summer thereafter at Pacific Masters open water events, members of the Pacific Masters Open Water committee will hand out Pacific Masters Open Water Challenge patches. Please look for committee members at event registration tables and after swims. Teammates and coaches may pick up patches for swimmers not in attendance. Wish to refuse all earned patches? Or perhaps you�d prefer electronic patches instead? Please send your requests to

Hints:

• Within each different status (Trout, Manatee, etc.) swimmers are ordered first by number of swims, and then by total distance swum.
• Want to see more details about a swimmer's OW accomplishments? Just click on their name.
• Want to see more details about a particular year's Open Water swims for a specific swimmer? After clicking on their name select the suit category swims desired (either Cat 1 or Cat 2, depending on which suit categories they swam in).

 

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