Member participation rate

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).

In 2011, the Michigan LMSC had registered 804 swimmers. Of those 804 swimmers, 516 swam in either pool meets, open water events, and postal National Championships That is a 64% participation rate and that has to be one of the largest in the country. We offer 14 local pool meets a year plus an LMSC State Championship Meet. in the last 10 years that meet has gotten in a range of 47 to 52% of our USMS registered swimmers at the time of the meet. 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. This 64% also includes swimmers that are in the "Go for the Distance Program" and I included that because its a USMS pool participation event and you have to be USMS registered to participate.

This 64% also includes swimmers that are in the "Go for the Distance Program" and I included that because its a USMS pool participation event and you have to be USMS registered to participate. Oh, I see. I only included participation in pool meets or OW races sanctioned in our LMSC, no postal events or GTD. We did increase from 55 (2010) to 76 (2011, +38%) swimmers in GTD; the LMSC mileage increased even more (+54%). Maybe VA is just as boring as Michigan... :)

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 not sure if this is a serious question or not, but if you are curious...I bet what happened is that many people registered at the meet and their membership just hasn't been confirmed at this point. Swimmers who register at meets often fill out paper forms and it takes a little while to process those. Or possibly the USMS IDs weren't included in the meet entries so it takes longer to look up the members in the registration database. When I have to upload results, I work with our Registrar -- and the Registrars of other LMSCs, if necessary -- to confirm that swimmer X registered at the meet. Already the numbers have changed: as of this morning it was 119 members and 48 "unconfirmed" swimmers.

I am not sure if this is a serious question or not, but if you are curious...I bet what happened is that many people registered at the meet and their membership just hasn't been confirmed at this point. Swimmers who register at meets often fill out paper forms and it takes a little while to process those. Or possibly the USMS IDs weren't included in the meet entries so it takes longer to look up the members in the registration database. When I have to upload results, I work with our Registrar -- and the Registrars of other LMSCs, if necessary -- to confirm that swimmer X registered at the meet. Already the numbers have changed: as of this morning it was 119 members and 48 "unconfirmed" swimmers. Thanks! It was a serious question... about something minor that has absolutely no effect on me as a swimmer even if the answer had been something sinister :D

In 2011, the Michigan LMSC had registered 804 swimmers. Of those 804 swimmers, 516 swam in either pool meets, open water events, and postal National Championships That is a 64% participation rate and that has to be one of the largest in the country. We offer 14 local pool meets a year plus an LMSC State Championship Meet. in the last 10 years that meet has gotten in a range of 47 to 52% of our USMS registered swimmers at the time of the meet. 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.

Also, a lot of triathletes join Masters teams for the workouts but don't ever compete in a USMS-sanctioned event.

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. I'm in the process of writing my thesis on competitive swimming injuries and would love to include the USMS membership rates for 2011. Where did you find this, or where can I find it? Any help you can offer would be great! Thanks.

Our team swims about 40% of members at meets. So I guess we are doing better than average!:applaud:

I'm in the process of writing my thesis on competitive swimming injuries and would love to include the USMS membership rates for 2011. Where did you find this, or where can I find it? Any help you can offer would be great! Thanks. Erica, I am the USMS Membership Director. You can contact me at AnnaLea (at) usms (dot) org. You can find our overall membership rate for each year in this document: www.usms.org/.../gto_num_of_members.pdf