All Fairfax County locations (Audrey Moore, Spring Hill, Providence, Oak Marr) are closed on Thanksgiving Thursday, Nov 22, no workouts.

Note Providence will be CLOSED this coming Saturday, Nov 24, so no morning workout.

We have 7 lanes rented at Audrey Moore on Saturday, Nov 24 morning from 730-830 am.

American University:
Thanksgiving Thursday, Nov 22, pool will be open 11am – 1230pm, only. No workout from 5-6 am.
Friday, Nov 23, pool will be open 6-715am, AND 5-630 pm. No workout from 5-6 am.
Saturday, Nov 24, – normal time 5-630pm
Sunday, Nov 25, pool will be open 9-1030am and 5-6pm.

UDC – no workout on Thanksgiving Day Thursday Nov 22.

Georgetown Prep and Lab School – no workout on Thanksgiving Day Thursday Nov 22.

Chinquapin – no workout on Thanksgiving Day Thursday Nov 22.

Claude Moore – no workout on Thanksgiving Day Thursday Nov 22.

Finally, we are clear to begin workouts at University of the District of Colombia, right across from the Van Ness Metro Station!  Here is our schedule, beginning Monday, November 19th:

Mondays: 715 – 830 pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 6 – 7 am

The Monday evening workouts will be run by Coaches Sara and Lauren.  The Tues/Thurs morning workouts will be run by Coach Alexis, and they will have a distance freestyle/open water training focus, but stroke and IM will also be offered as an option.  Note also that we have the entire pool on Tues and Thurs mornings, so we certainly will run workouts for all speeds and abilities.

Please see the updated fall schedules for AU, GP, Lab School and Wilson at the Schedules and Locations link.

An open water practice from 9-10:30am at our summertime training venue, Gunston Manor in Lorton, VA. All participants should plan on arriving by 8:30am to register and check in. Wetsuits are optional, though the water should be a comfortable 82 – 83 degrees.

All levels are welcome, provided you can comfortably swim 500 M of any stroke (one loop around the course).

Cost is $15 to cover the homeowners community fee and all other course planning, arrangements and safety provisions. You can pay by cash or check (CUBU Masters). You must be USMS or USAT registered to participate. You can do this on-line for either organization.

Directions: Gunston Manor is a private community and the address to put into your GPS to locate the start of our swim is 5925 Kentia Trail, Lorton, VA 22079. This neighborhood is about two miles past the entrance to Pohick Bay Regional Park. From 95N, take Exit 161 for Route 1 North. Go about 1.5 miles to the first stop light where you turn right onto Gunston Road. Pohick Bay Regional Park is about 4 miles down on the left hand side, and another two miles on the left hand side is the entrance to Gunston Manor. About half a mile in, on the righ hand side is the club house and parking area, and you will be directed to the beach from there.

For any questions or additional details, please contact Frank Marcinkowski at f.marcinkowski@cubu-masters.org, or at 703-582-0429.

AU pool will be closed 8/13 and 8/16-8/18 due to maintenance.

Curl Burke Masters Swimmers,

Over the past several days and weeks, very serious allegations of sexual misconduct with minors by two Curl Burke Swim Club Coaches and Senior Managers have appeared in the press. USA Swimming has initiated their emergency investigation process into these allegations, and we will no doubt learn more in the days ahead. In the meantime, I provided the following information to all of our Curl Burke Masters Coaches this morning, and rather than wait until you can hear this from them at your next workout, I wanted to pass this same information along to each of you:

Curl Burke Masters Swimming Inc. is a completely separate swimming, legal and business entity from the Curl Burke Swim Club. Our club is part of U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) which limits its membership, exclusively, to adults of age 18 and up.

Curl Burke Masters Swimming has shared a common name with the Curl Burke Swim Club. This same name derived from our original training location, Burke Racquet and Swim Club in Burke, Virginia, which was also a practice site of the Curl Burke Swim Club. Since it’s inception, our team has never been controlled, coached, managed, or operated by the Curl Burke Swim Club in any capacity. We have our own coaches who all have other part or full time jobs.

Our only business relationship to the Curl Burke Swim Club is at three of our sixteen training locations where we sublease our lanes for our adult training practices. In all other locations we directly lease our lane space ourselves, except for our one private club location where our swimmers at that location all belong to the Club and therefore are not charged lane rentals (BRSC).

We have been in discussions with another Masters Club in Northern Virginia, Fairfax County Masters who trains at two of our same locations, for some time. Just two months ago, we agreed to merge our teams and operations beginning on January 1, 2013. As part of this merger, we were already contemplating a name change for our combined team. In light of the recent events associated with the Curl Burke Swim Club, we will now accelerate this name change rather than wait until January 1. The Potomac Valley Local Masters Swimming Committee (LMSC), our regional organization under USMS, is already investigating the procedures to facilitate our Club name change now, rather than wait until the end of the calendar year as customary.

In the meantime, all of our locations and lane space and coaching staff look secure. We are working towards a single quarterly dues and punch pass system that will allow you to swim any workout at nearly all of our locations. This is exciting news and we hope to have it ready to go by the start of the fall/winter/spring season at Labor Day. I will keep you posted of any noteworthy changes, including our new name!

Should you have any additional questions regarding our team, including our near and long term direction, please feel free to talk to your site lead coach, or to email or call me anytime.

I hope you have a great weekend and can find some time to watch how the USA fares in swimming and other events over the next two weeks!

Best, Frank Marcinkowski
Head Swim Coach Curl Burke Masters Swimming Inc.
703-582-0429

On Saturday, August 11, 2012, starting at 5:30a, we will be holding a special workout outdoors at Old Keene Mill (9534 Orion Ct, Burke VA) . We have planned 130 x 100 meters! Consider joining our American University group at this workout for a fun summer practice challenge. For more information, contact Coach Matt Dantas-McCutcheon at mateusdm88@gmail.com.

All of our Masters practice sites have now re-opened after last week’s storms and returned to normal summer practice hours.

Please note that tomorrow morning, Sunday, July 8th workout at Old Keene Mill will be moved up one hour due to the heat, so it will be from 8-9:30am.