I'm 99% sure the "preferred" name is the only field that passes through. The nickname indeed could get printed in the heat sheet and results, but the actual first name is all that gets sent through to USMS.
Technically the heat sheets are supposed to only display the actual first name, so Mollie is still right that you shouldn't have your nickname printed there. And if the meet director doesn't notice or know to change to the actual first name it is true that Club Assistant will pass on the nickname to Hytek. But even if it slips through to Hytek and is never changed, it won't be sent to USMS for Top Ten.
Jeff
It only won't get sent to USMS for Top Ten if the LMSC's TTR goes through and manually changes the meet registration info to match the swimmer's USMS registration info. And that was the genesis of my request up-thread to *not* enter meets with anything other than the name you registered for USMS with...
