North Carolina Short Course Championship Meet

From George Simon of N.C. Masters Swimming:

The May 1st and 2nd meet will be held this year in Hillsborough, but is still sponsored by Raleigh Area Masters swim team. For those of you who plan on attending the National Short Course Championships in Atlanta, this is a great meet to use to warm up, swim in relays, etc. For those who are not planning to go to Atlanta, this meet has always been a fun and well run meet, so please plan to attend.

After the Saturday events, there is a social planned at the Carolina Brewery in Chapel Hill.

The deadline to enter this meet is 11:59pm, Sunday, April 25th, less than a week away, so please consider going ahead and registering now.

To register for this meet, it is similar to the Charlotte Meet and entries are taken online. The link for registering is: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1475&smid=2162

The link to see the social menu is http://www.ncmasters.org/forms/social-menu.pdf

And if you have difficulty with the long link above, you can always go to http://www.ncmasters.org/#meets and click the links there.

Hope to see you there.

Regards,


George S Simon
Registrar, LMSC for North Carolina
website http://www.ncmasters.org

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Upcoming Masters Events in North Carolina

Just some reminders about upcoming events in North Carolina - all NC events can
be seen and linked at http://www.ncmasters.org/#meets

--North Carolina Short Course Yards Championships
Hillsborough, NC, Saturday and Sunday, May 1st and 2nd, 2010 - Meet entries are
processed online and the deadline for entering the meet is Sunday, April 25th.

This would be an excellent meet to enter if you are planning on going to Atlanta
for the USMS National Short Course Championships. Note that the deadline for
entering the Atlanta meet is April 15th.

--2010 USMS One Mile Open Water Championships
Huntersville, NC - Saturday, May 29th, 2010 - entry deadline is May 23rd.

--USMS 5K and 10K National Postal Championships
May 15 - September 15, 2010 - Hosted by North Carolina Masters Swimming. Since
this is a postal event, entries cannot be taken until May 15th. Please look at
the details and get your team involved so that North Carolina can have the
largest number of swimmers entered into this event.

Please notice, two national events being hosted by or held in North Carolina, a
first in the same year.

Regards,


George S Simon
Registrar, LMSC for North Carolina
website http://www.ncmasters.org

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