Water Exercise Technologies' Masters Club was founded on the premise of providing both quality and consistency to those individuals that have dedicated themselves to improving their fitness through swimming.   It has been built with the ideals of offering the best to its club members.   Our Masters Club offers excellent organized swimming workouts with a coach on deck to teach, motivate, coach and inspire you.  For our triathletes and open water swimmers, we also offer open water swimming training on beautiful Lake Maitland.  And most importantly, we offer a close-knit comraderie amongst our club members with get-togethers and social events.  We offer all this and more in the beautiful setting of the Winter Park Racquet Club.

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About Our Founder and Head Coach

Mark Canterbury

Mark is a former World Ranked swimmer and has coached all levels of swimming from neighborhood summer club teams to university teams to US Swimming club teams to Masters teams.   Mark both swam for as well as coached for Mecklenburg Aquatic Club, one of the premier club teams in the country and is now an Olympic Training Center for United States Swimming.  Mark was a United States Swimming All-American and also received NCAA All-American honours while swimming for both Auburn University as well as Southern Illinois University.  Mark also qualified for both the 1988 and 1992 United States Olympic Trials.  While coaching, Mark has developed and coached several national level USS swimmers as well as coached both Masters National Record and World Records Holders.

About our Assistant Coach

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Jessica Kretz

Jessica Kretz is a 25 year old graduate of Clarion University ( in Pennsylvania) , with a degree in Sports Management. She has been a top 6 state finalist as well as a Division II NCAA qualifier. She just recently moved to Orlando from Pittsburgh and is currently coaching the Park Maitland Swim Team as well as swimming and helping coach the Masters Team. She has been swimming since she was 8 years old. She has taught both group and private swimming lessons for the past 8 years and was a coach for the Clarion University Summer Swim Camps.

Our Facilities At
Winter Park Racquet Club

Current Schedule

   Monday -         6:00am to 7:00am (Pool Training)
        
                         6:30pm to 7:30pm (Pool Training)

 

  Tuesday -         8:00am to 9:00am (Pool Training)
 
                          5:30pm to 6:30pm (Lake Training)


  Wednesday-      6:00am to 7:00am (Pool Training)
                                      6:30pm to 7:30pm (Pool Training)  NEW!!!


 

  Thursday -         8:00am to 9:00am (Pool Training)
                           5:30pm to 6:30pm (Lake Training) 
                           6:30pm to 7:30pm (Pool Training)  

 
   Friday-             6:00am to 7:00am (Pool Training)

 

  Saturday -        8:00am to 9:00am (Open Water Training in Lake Maitland)

                          9:00am to 10:30am (Pool Training)

 

(We are also looking at starting a mid-morning training a couple days aweek. Check back soon for details.   If you are interested in a training time that's not available yet, please leave a comment and your contact information on our contact page and we will contact you.)

Our Current Dues

Currently, the Masters Club at Winter Park Racquet Club dues are as follows:

Winter Park Racquet Club Members - $45.00 per month due on the first of the month
                                                                 ( Will be billed to your membership account)

Non-Members                                    - $60.00 per month due on the first of the month

(Dues will be prorated for the very first month of membership and for the first month only)

Per session cost is $10.00 ($15.00 if you do a back to back lake and pool swim) for non team members

Also, every Masters Club member must be a registered member with United States Masters Swimming.  This is an annual membership to United States Masters Swimming and includes a subscription to Swim Magazine.  This membership is only $35.00 annually.  If you are already a member of USMS, you can change your club affiliation for $5.00 online with USMS.

Key Testimonials
This is a letter one of our swimmers received from a friend of theirs that comes and swims with us whenever he is in town.  I spent some time with him and worked on his stroke during one of his visits. This is a letter in response to the work that I did with him...

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I just wanted to give you a message to give to Mark Canterbury when you see him at your swim in the morning, and that is that I really do believe my swimming is actually getting better!  I told him that no one has ever really helped me in all the swim lessons I have gotten to date, until now!

I have been working on the things he went over with me on the Thursday between lessons then a little Saturday, on Sunday I swam 1000 meters straight and today (the pool is closed Monday) after a 20 mile bike ride in the hills.  I felt really good this morning and was not pushing it at all, I was just attempting to swim relaxed, breathing in deeper (actually breathing out more), rotating from my shoulders which is resulting in more body roll and a few other things.  The last 50 of 3 sets of 8 x 50 with 15 sec rest was even faster, and more efficient, than the first, now that’s progress.

 Overall I am excited to see if this is really going to work but I am extremely optimistic.  I just wanted you to relay my thanks to Mark and the progress made even though it hasn’t even been a week yet!

Anyway, I just had to tell someone and I thought since I told Mark I had never had a swim instructor who ever really helped me which includes Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion, Terry Bangs and I had a whole weekend by him personally and look at us we are still very poor (sh*tty) swimmers…until now…I hope!!!



Bob

 

Robert J. Lindquist, P.E., Inc.

Austin, TX




Hey Mark-   Kathy, Stacey, and I went to Asheville to run a Half Marathon last weekend.  Just wanted you to know that I think the swimming really helped me.  I felt my upper body was much stronger and my posture was so much better throughout the race thanks to the swimming.  It was a very hard race, lots of hills..very steep and some very long climbs but I felt strong the whole way.   I'll be there Friday! Thanks, Susan

Susan Paul - Organizer of Track Shack's Marathon Fest program and contributing author to Runner's World magazine


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