Heike Beer, Secretary

Heike has always enjoyed the water and grew up around swimming pools and the Atlantic Algarve coast in Portugal. For most of her childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, she simply played in the water and swam for fun, without any serious training, stroke improvement, or competition. In fact, she was into competitive artistic gymnastics for over 20 years. It wasn’t until a colleague at work pointed out her strong upper body that she started swimming in a Masters group in 1999. Over the past 3 decades, she has swum with the Pacific Seawolves, Semiahmoo Masters, and now the White Rock Wave. 

She enjoys racing, mostly freestyle, but often adds in a few fly and backstroke events to keep racing more interesting. She ran Semiahmoo Masters for several years until there were too few club members to sustain it feasibly, and dissolved the club in 2021 to join the White Rock Wave. As a member of the Wave board, she helps swimmers register for meets. She joined the MSABC board in 2022 as a Director at Large and then took on the job of Secretary. She also looks after the engraving of our league trophies and award plaques. 

Heike very much enjoys the camaraderie and many swim meets of the masters swimming world in BC, and also participated in the 2014 FINA Masters World Championships in Montreal. She hopes to keep swimming into her old age (Be like Betty!) and would like to continue to contribute to masters swimming in BC in a positive way.