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How come USMS doesn't have a app?

CTRZ7

Would the membership be open to one if it was a possibility? If so, what would it look like. What useful things would make membership more valuable? For me the following would keep it on my main homescreen:

Pool finder

Partnership with pools to store pool passes to scan at entry

easier to digest forums

easier to digest events (geofenced so you see what's local to you)

Smart watch integration of workouts

Smart watch integration importing of stats of workout

coach portal (you can send a prospective coach swim footage)

  • It’ll be interesting to see what the organization’s response is (if there is a response). I guess it’d make sense to have one. Or, at least it wouldn’t hurt. I see that other sports have them — USATF (track & field), USAT (triathlon), USA Cycling, etc. And, there is one for USA Swimming. It’s just that all those other sports seem to be all-inclusive in that the “Masters” level seems to be included as part of the main body, and not a separate entity or association like that between USA Swimming, and US Masters Swimming. In a “Devil’s advocate” sense, most of the things from your list of tools for an app are available from the pulldown menu. So, if you have the USMS website bookmarked on your web browser, you have access to them. But, you’d think that the USMS organization would want to keep members engaged on THEIR own website/app, and not somewhere else. But, some of the things on your list just don’t seem to even be a ‘blip’ on their radar. — Dan

  •  , thanks for the feedback. We are always looking for things to make the membership for valuable.
    Some of what you have listed is available on our site (pool finder, forums, geo-targeted events calendar - depending on your browser settings, integration with swim.com). For the swimming footage, we partner with a company called OnForm and use that for our Video Stroke Analysis product. 

  • in reply to Kyle Deery

    Thank you Kyle for responding. I do appreciate development and was curious as to if an app would be wanted by the membership. 

  • in reply to CTRZ7

    I think this is a fantastic idea. A USMS app  would be easily accessible and the menu could include workouts, videos, ask a swimmer bot questions Wink. I love it! Hire a tech iintern , they will likely jump on developing an app if cost to developing is an issue. Ai is upon us and we need to move away from logging onto the website just to get information that can be streamlined with a useful app.