Every now and then I have been asked about dates for future USMS Nationals. Here are the dates for the meets currently on the calendar:
May 1-4, 2014 Spring Nationals: Santa Clara, CA
August 13-17, 2014 Summer Nationals: University of Maryland College Park
April 23-26, 2015 Spring Nationals: San Antonio, TX
August 6-9, 2015 Summer Nationals: SPIRE Institute, Ohio
Hosts for 2016 will be solicited and awarded next year.
Jeff Roddin
USMS Championship Committee Chair
Thanks for posting the order of events Jeff!
Since the 1500 and 800 are on separate days, does that mean swimmers can do both events like in Mission Viejo? It's really unfortunate for us distance swimmers to have to sacrifice one of our events at nationals when there are really only 3 events (400, 800 and 1500) in which we're competitive!
That option will be highly unlikely only having a single 8 lane competition course and a meet expected to be even larger than Mission Viejo. In Mission Viejo the finish time on Wednesday (1500 day) was 10:10pm and the finish time on Friday (800 day) was 7:22pm. Those session lengths are very difficult to staff while also not really being good conditions for competition for the swimmers.
Jeff
Thanks for posting the order of events Jeff!
Since the 1500 and 800 are on separate days, does that mean swimmers can do both events like in Mission Viejo? It's really unfortunate for us distance swimmers to have to sacrifice one of our events at nationals when there are really only 3 events (400, 800 and 1500) in which we're competitive!
That option will be highly unlikely only having a single 8 lane competition course and a meet expected to be even larger than Mission Viejo. In Mission Viejo the finish time on Wednesday (1500 day) was 10:10pm and the finish time on Friday (800 day) was 7:22pm. Those session lengths are very difficult to staff while also not really being good conditions for competition for the swimmers.
Jeff
