Domonic:
One of the big differences in the meets between USA Swimming and USMS is that most of time they have time cuts for eligibility and qualification to swim in USA swimming meets. I know of no qualifing times at the local and zone level in USMS. There is however at the USMS National and FINA World level meets.
Before I would join I would see what meets I would qualify for and would it be worthwile to join. Now with dual sanctioning, I don't really know how many meets that will entail and I would not have to be a USA member to participate in them. If you go to the LSC page on the USA swimming site of the LSC you want to join they will have cutoff times for A, AA, B, and C. Some meets are A, B, C, cuts which means they are open to all just like all of our USMS local and zone meets. I am sure its different for every different LSC in the country.
Good luck and it will be interesting to see what meets you can qualify to swim in the LSC. I believe all USMS members would have to qualify with the Open division time cuts.
Domonic:
One of the big differences in the meets between USA Swimming and USMS is that most of time they have time cuts for eligibility and qualification to swim in USA swimming meets. I know of no qualifing times at the local and zone level in USMS. There is however at the USMS National and FINA World level meets.
Before I would join I would see what meets I would qualify for and would it be worthwile to join. Now with dual sanctioning, I don't really know how many meets that will entail and I would not have to be a USA member to participate in them. If you go to the LSC page on the USA swimming site of the LSC you want to join they will have cutoff times for A, AA, B, and C. Some meets are A, B, C, cuts which means they are open to all just like all of our USMS local and zone meets. I am sure its different for every different LSC in the country.
Good luck and it will be interesting to see what meets you can qualify to swim in the LSC. I believe all USMS members would have to qualify with the Open division time cuts.
