I compiled the list of members who competed in my LMSC meets for 2011, removed the duplicates, non-members, and non-Niagara members. We had approximately 170 out of 510 members compete in meets last year, which comes out to 33%. There could be some exceptions which I didn't pick up, such as members who only competed outside of the LMSC.
I am curious as to how this fits with the national picture and if anyone else is tracking this for their LMSC.
No idea if this rate is good or bad, but I am not surprised there are many just in it for the fitness.
I compiled the list of members who competed in my LMSC meets for 2011, removed the duplicates, non-members, and non-Niagara members. We had approximately 170 out of 510 members compete in meets last year, which comes out to 33%. There could be some exceptions which I didn't pick up, such as members who only competed outside of the LMSC.
I am curious as to how this fits with the national picture and if anyone else is tracking this for their LMSC.
No idea if this rate is good or bad, but I am not surprised there are many just in it for the fitness.
Is the 33% just for pool meets, or are open water events included?
The national numbers can be viewed here:
Go to www.usms.org
Mouse over the blue "Competition" tab
Select "Event Results & Rankings"
You will see a table of statistics. For 2011:
There are 424 meets with results in the database
There were 16,034 unique USMS member participants in those meets
We had a total of 56,158 members in 2011.
So 16,034/56,158 = 28.6% of our members competed in a pool meet in 2011.
That's so great to see. When I first joined Masters I had "heard" that only 10% of the membership competed. But, as you've shown, this clearly isn't the case. :applaud:
Is the 33% just for pool meets, or are open water events included?
Also an area I missed. We usually have just one sanctioned OW event in our LMSC each year, so it could be a little higher.
Also an area I missed. We usually have just one sanctioned OW event in our LMSC each year, so it could be a little higher.
It could be a decent bit higher. While there are obviously overlaps -- people who compete in both pool and OW events -- there are quite a number of people who compete in only one or the other.
If you look at our monthly LMSC registrations, other than Nov/Dec our biggest registration months are June and July, the months we have two sanctioned OW events.
I was able to crunch some numbers for our LMSC: 25% of our membership participated in pool meets sanctioned in our LMSC; including OW events bumped it up to 36%. And both OW races allowed one-event registration (which weren't counted, of course).
The national numbers can be viewed here:
Go to www.usms.org
Mouse over the blue "Competition" tab
Select "Event Results & Rankings"
You will see a table of statistics. For 2011:
There are 424 meets with results in the database
There were 16,034 unique USMS member participants in those meets
We had a total of 56,158 members in 2011.
So 16,034/56,158 = 28.6% of our members competed in a pool meet in 2011.
The national numbers can be viewed here:
Go to www.usms.org
Mouse over the blue "Competition" tab
Select "Event Results & Rankings"
You will see a table of statistics. For 2011:
There are 424 meets with results in the database
There were 16,034 unique USMS member participants in those meets
We had a total of 56,158 members in 2011.
So 16,034/56,158 = 28.6% of our members competed in a pool meet in 2011.
check out the numbers for 2012. 1 meet, 167 total meet participants, 107 unique USMS member participants. who were the other 60 people? USAS kids, Canadian Masters swimmers, or... ummmm ... the timers and officials? :dunno:
Another question about that page. For whatever reason, I remember that the number of splits recorded was over 3 million last month. Now it's 2.9 million. Did some meets disappear, or do splits simply expire at some point?
One of the reasons for this high participation rate is that our LMSC does not offer "One Day Registration" for Pool meets and only allows "One Day Registration" for Open Water Events.
We also do not offer one-event registration for pool events and we don't get nearly 64% participation.
Perhaps in Michigan there just isn't much else to do? :) :bolt:
We do, however, offer one-events for OW races and even so we get huge bump in annual registrations and in participation.
I am the person who uploaded this meet. Those numbers will change. The problem is that the meet directors did not include the USMS numbers or the official USMS clubs for any of the meet participants, so our meet upload tools could not "locate" those swimmers in our database. I have to go through them manually, one swimmer at a time, to find them. Going through 60 names one at a time takes a while.
This is why it is important for meet directors to collect a USMS number from each participant, and enter it into the "registration number" field in the Hy-Tek Meet Manager software (or EasyMeet, or whatever software they use).
Thanks for the info! And for all the hard work behind the scenes on stuff like this. :applaud:
