Page 24 May 2014 NEVER STOP BEING YOU. The Terraces of Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona, is managed by ABHOW, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. ABHOW is a nonsectarian corporation, serving seniors through quality retirement housing since 1949. Looking for a community where you can get a kick out of life? You’ve found it. Live worry-free with friendly folks who want the same things: happiness and security without pretense. It’s easy. It’s The Terraces. Welcome home. 7550 N. 16th Street Phoenix, AZ 85020 TheTerracesPhoenix.com Call 1-888-817-9169 to schedule a visit. Now enrolling for Fall 2014 Yes, it is true that MOST great things must come to an end. Not this great thing though. The facility of the Phoenix Swim Club has been demolished, but that doesn’t mean that PSC is closing. It is a very big loss for the state of Arizona to lose such a wonderful swim facility. However, I assure you that we aren’t losing our wonderful team. My name is Abby Loel and I’ve been swimming at the Phoenix Swim Club for ten years. For me, being a part of the Phoenix Swim Club is a great honor. “Imagine that you train in the same beautiful outdoor facility for years. The same 50m pool where former Olympians have trained, shed sweat and tears, and hosted countless championship swim meets. And then, one day, you learn it’s being sold to a housing development,” said Splash magazine writer, Mike Gustanfson. L   E  A L What’s next for the Phoenix Swim Club? Yes, it is sad to be leaving my second home but we are getting ready to dive in to a new home this fall. Before it was the Phoenix Swim Club it was the Phoenician Swim Club. Prior to that it was Madison Vista Public School. The Pool opened in 1988. This happened in big part due to Charles Keating, Gary Hall Sr. and family members. They built the pool and ran it in the early years. Gary Hall Jr., an Olympian who has won 10 Olympic medals — five gold, two silver, three bronze — in three Olympic Games from 1996 to 2000 said that the PSC was one of the reasons that he started swimming competitively. Just after the 2000 Olympics the Phoenix Swim Club facility was sold to Brophy College Prep. Then PSC changed its name to BEST (Brophy East Swim Team). In 2009 BEST was changed back to Phoenix Swim Club when it was no longer sponsored by Brophy, and became a non- profit organization. Many other Olympians and elite swimmers have trained or competed at our pool: Anthony Ervin, and Roland Shoeman, who still swims for PSC and is training for his fifth Olympics. Also, Misty Hyman, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer, Klete and Kayln Keller. When an elite swimmer comes to PSC they sign a map of the world that covers an entire wall. It is known as “The Wall of Fame.” The swimmers sign their names on their home country. When I walk into the room with the wall I am overwhelmed with history. Although we can’t bring the wall to our new home, we will create a new history. Phoenix Swim Club does an amazing amount of community outreach. PSC hosts the only Special Olympics swim team in Phoenix. Grand Canyon University, Hubbard Swim School, and many public high schools practice at Phoenix and a variety of swim lessons take place at the pool. Sharing this wonderful pool with others has been a great experience. Sometimes when we hear sad stories we want to cry. Hearing that our pool will be torn down and built into houses really makes me want to cry. Phoenix Swim Club head coach Garrett McCaffrey said “This kind of transition is never easy, but thanks to all the work by our board of directors and the patience of our membership, Phoenix Swim Club is coming out of this in a wonderful position for success.” I am very grateful we have a new home to move into, even though we have to move out of the old. Our team will make new memories, and we will definitely laugh together! So many people have tried to save our pool and I want to thank everyone who has helped along the way. We are so blessed to have so many coaches, board members, and our most organized office manager, meet organizer, and one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, Sandy Lee. Everyone has been very patient in waiting for an answer to, “Where will we go?”, “What will happen to Phoenix?” We will merge with Arizona Marlins Swim Club under our team name, Phoenix Swim Club; we are so lucky to be able to keep our team open. We owe so much thanks to all those at PCDS, and Arizona Marlins; they’ve been so generous in welcoming our team. Phoenix Swim Club is so excited to get started at our new facility. It is going to be so beautiful; we have so much to look forward to. At the new facility, located at Phoenix Country Day School, we will have state of the art equipment, two new pools, a diving well, a new weight room, and much more. Also I want to thank Brophy for letting us use their world famous pool for this long. It was a great privilege to swim at Dottie Boreyko Brophy Sports campus. Even though it will be a big transition, it will be a wonderful change. Swimming at the PSC facility pool has honestly changed my life; I have made lifelong friends. I will NEVER forget this pool. It’s like moving away from your best friend. I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t be a part of the Phoenix Swim Club. Everyone at Phoenix has touched my life in some way. Every minute of the 6,600 hours I have spent at the pool has been worth it.

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