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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, October 17. TUCKED away on the campus of Google\u2019s world headquarters in Silicon Valley is a four-lane 25-meter pool, built as part of the company\u2019s recreational section of its sprawling campus. The pool is now the site of an official Masters swimming program, the first in what is expected to be a large number of Masters swim teams in the United States with ties to large corporations.<\/p>\n

Coached by Laura Schuster, the 18-member Google Masters officially became a team in mid-June, a few months after Schuster first suggested it to USMS Education Director Bill Brenner at the short course nationals in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said she does some coaching and dryland training at Google\u2019s campus, and they just built a pool,\u201d Brenner said. \u201cThat\u2019s when bells went off in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bells got louder as Brenner began to convince Google to create an official Masters team. The idea of giving employees of arguably the largest Internet-based company in the world structured workouts with a dedicated coach was just the beginning. As members of an official Masters team, each Google Masters athlete now has the ability to drop into any of the 1,500 Masters programs around the country during their work travels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to drop into a (Masters workout) when you aren\u2019t a member,\u201d Brenner said. \u201cHow refreshing it is to walk into a Masters team knowing a coach is going to welcome you and athletes are going to welcome you. You\u2019re going to get a great workout in during a short period of time, much better than you would get at a hotel pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Google Masters aren\u2019t just satisfied with the workouts. Five of them participated in a meet on September 28, where Schuster served as meet announcer and got a thrill mentioning the Google Masters team.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Laura Schuster<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI was able to bring these folks together for a day and do something they hadn\u2019t done in a long time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

As the company\u2019s fitness instructor, Schuster is more than a warm body supervising a workout. She makes sure to implement swimming-specific dryland routines for her team and make things a bit challenging before they start their day at Google.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>

Photo Courtesy: Laura Schuster<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cGoogle Masters makes joining a masters team simple because they can get a jump start on the traffic, hit the early morning practice, then be writing emails 15 minutes after they\u2019ve dried off,\u201d Schuster said. She added that almost all of the athletes met each other for the first time when the team started, not uncommon when working for a company that boasts thousands of employees on its main campus.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Laura Schuster<\/p><\/div>
\nWhile getting Google Masters on its feet, Brenner was already busy securing agreements with other major companies to start Masters teams. He said computer technology company Oracle is another major business he\u2019s hoping will have a Masters team very soon. A new pool on Apple\u2019s main campus in Cupertino is scheduled for a 2015 opening, and Brenner hopes an Apple Masters team \u2013 complete with the famous Apple logo on the swim caps \u2013 will be a reality by then.<\/p>\n

Without a hint of boastfulness, Brenner said \u201cI want to approach all the Fortune 500 companies in the next three years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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