Interesting to confirm yesterday that USMS will not sanction dual meets between clubs...I had heard rumors but now that we were looking into organizing one I'm told we can't (still haven't found out where it says this in the rule book).
Curious why this would be a problem for anyone? Have attached a poll and would also love to hear your thoughts!
There was a dual meet between Lake Washington Masters (a PNA workout group) and their affiliated USA Swimming club, WAVE Aquatics, last year. I see the results in the USMS database for the masters swimmers, so I'm assuming it was sanctioned.
In any event, I think dual meets are a great idea. Is there some requirement in USMS that all meets must be open to all USMS members? This would be the only reason I can think of that would forbid dual meets.
We had a discussion of this very example at the NW Zone meeting at the NW Zone meet last weekend. Walt Reid brought up this particular meet as the example. I'm not sure if it was sanctioned, or recognized, but however they worked it, it was just between the two of them.
Our USA team is going to be holding a developmental meet sometime in May, and the idea we have is to get a dual sanction USMS/USAS completed for it. The USA team is going to be using this for their younger, and less experienced swimmers, and this would also be perfect for most of our masters group as well. In the works in Wenatchee. :)
There was a dual meet between Lake Washington Masters (a PNA workout group) and their affiliated USA Swimming club, WAVE Aquatics, last year. I see the results in the USMS database for the masters swimmers, so I'm assuming it was sanctioned.
In any event, I think dual meets are a great idea. Is there some requirement in USMS that all meets must be open to all USMS members? This would be the only reason I can think of that would forbid dual meets.
We had a discussion of this very example at the NW Zone meeting at the NW Zone meet last weekend. Walt Reid brought up this particular meet as the example. I'm not sure if it was sanctioned, or recognized, but however they worked it, it was just between the two of them.
Our USA team is going to be holding a developmental meet sometime in May, and the idea we have is to get a dual sanction USMS/USAS completed for it. The USA team is going to be using this for their younger, and less experienced swimmers, and this would also be perfect for most of our masters group as well. In the works in Wenatchee. :)
