{"id":9,"date":"2019-03-24T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2021-10-15T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:14:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAC Masters<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the country&#8217;s largest and most successful masters swimming clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in Dublin, in 1988, the club has grown steadily in both membership numbers and reputation. We warmly welcome swimmers of all abilities and the emphasis is on training and competing with a fun and friendly club.<\/p>\n<p>We train and compete throughout the year. Training sessions are held in the\u00a0<strong>National Aquatic Centre<\/strong>\u00a0every Thursday and Sunday evening and our third weekly session takes place in the 50 metre pool in\u00a0<strong>Westwood Clontarf<\/strong>, every Tuesday. Since 2004, we are in the lucky position to be the only masters club based in the country&#8217;s National Aquatic Centre in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>From September to May, we compete nationwide in the calendar of masters swimming galas, including the\u00a0<strong>Limerick Masters<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Ulster Masters<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Celtic Masters<\/strong>\u00a0which we also co-organise. The club\u2019s swimmers have a strong record in these galas and also compete regularly in the\u00a0<strong>World and European Masters Swimming Championships<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nacmasters.com\/images\/NAC%20Masters%20at%20Tralee1.png\" width=\"535\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the summer months we compete each weekend in the series of sea swims that make up the\u00a0<strong>Leinster Open Sea Race<\/strong>\u00a0calendar. The club has a great record in the competition &#8211; both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams have won the\u00a0<strong>Team of the Year<\/strong>\u00a0prize and the club\u2019s swimmers have won many individual races including\u00a0<strong>The Liffey Swim<\/strong>\u00a0and The\u00a0<strong>Dun Laoghaire Harbour Swim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nacmasters.com\/images\/i1-about.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in finding out more about the club,<strong>\u00a0please do get in touch!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAC Masters\u00a0is one of the country&#8217;s largest and most successful masters swimming clubs. Founded in Dublin, in 1988, the club has grown steadily in both membership numbers and reputation. We warmly welcome swimmers of all abilities and the emphasis is on training and competing with a fun and friendly club. We train and compete throughout &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nacmasters.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}