dear USMS friends,
Last Monday on a whim I emailed the blurb to my local paper, the San Marcos Daily Record (below is what it said)
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Story Idea:
Martindale man ranked #1 in the world for Masters Swimming Event in 2004
FINA.org the international swimming organization recently published the 2004 top 10 masters swimming lists. 41 year old Ande Rasmussen who lives near Austin and works and trains in Austin was ranked # 1 in the world in the 200 short course meters Individual Medley (IM) swimming event for 2004 in the 40 - 44 year old mens age group with a time of 2:15.01.
www.fina.org/rankingshome.htmlwww.fina.org/masterstop10_SCM04.pdf
The 200 short course meters Individual Medley (IM) swimming event is
done in a 25 meter pool where the swimmer swims
50 meters butterfly,
50 meters backstroke,
50 meter breastroke and
50 meters freestyle.
Ande Rasmussen
AndeRasmussen@aol.com
512-217-2728 cell
800-937-0418 day
835 Martindale Falls
Martindale, TX 78655
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Thursday a reporter left a message on my voicemail. I called her back on Friday and we set an appointment to meet in Sewell Park in San Marcos.
Friday afternoon at 4:00 pm I met with her and she interviewed me and took some photos for the article.
Today, Sunday the San Marcos Daily record, ran a feature story.
www.sanmarcosrecord.com/.../www.sanmarcosrecord.com/.../sports1.txt
thank you for peeking at the article and for writing
yesterday I got 3 calls, and 2 more today because a local radio station mentioned it as well.
I don't have any tattoos, (maybe it's my fear of needles) Well I do have an tiny black dot on my right palm where I accidentally stabbed myself with an ink pen.
no autographs yet
I occasionally send out notices about my songwriting when something neat happens so I thought I would do the same with this.
Ande
Originally posted by hrietz
It's always nice to see swimmers especially masters swimmers get press. I also thought that it was a tattoo of either a chain or a vine...
Originally posted by newmastersswimmer
Congrats on the article!.....it was very well written.....you are now a local celebrity in San Marcos....now you may have to stop and give autographs when you go shopping at the local Wal Mart. I saw the piece of plant there between your neck and shoulder and thought it might be a tatoo of some kind.....you know....being a songwriter and artist....maybe that would give you the inclination to get a tatoo....who knows?? ...I thought it was a strange location for a tatoo though??
thank you for peeking at the article and for writing
yesterday I got 3 calls, and 2 more today because a local radio station mentioned it as well.
I don't have any tattoos, (maybe it's my fear of needles) Well I do have an tiny black dot on my right palm where I accidentally stabbed myself with an ink pen.
no autographs yet
I occasionally send out notices about my songwriting when something neat happens so I thought I would do the same with this.
Ande
Originally posted by hrietz
It's always nice to see swimmers especially masters swimmers get press. I also thought that it was a tattoo of either a chain or a vine...
Originally posted by newmastersswimmer
Congrats on the article!.....it was very well written.....you are now a local celebrity in San Marcos....now you may have to stop and give autographs when you go shopping at the local Wal Mart. I saw the piece of plant there between your neck and shoulder and thought it might be a tatoo of some kind.....you know....being a songwriter and artist....maybe that would give you the inclination to get a tatoo....who knows?? ...I thought it was a strange location for a tatoo though??
