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.
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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:
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).
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:
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).
