I am interested if anyone could shed some light on citizenship/resident requirements in relation to National/USMS relay records. Is it possible for a record setting relay with one or more members of that relay, not being a US citizen(s) or even a resident(s), to be recognized as such?
Frank,
Actually I have expereince with the reverse. We swam in Australia's masters nationals this past May and had an incredible time. Unkown to me however was that I had created quite a controversy becuase I had broken the national record (Australian) in 5 events which had generated protests from a number of coaches.
Now granted, I was ready to jump ship and move there but was in no way feeling that my times should be recognized. The solution was that they designated my swims as "exhibition" s far as records bu still awarded first places. In the 50 fly where I broke the WR they did submit all the paperwork to Fina for recogniton.
All in all I thought they handled as they should have (and we could).............they even asked Laura & I to swim on an "international" relay with a woman from England and a guy from Germany!
Frank,
Actually I have expereince with the reverse. We swam in Australia's masters nationals this past May and had an incredible time. Unkown to me however was that I had created quite a controversy becuase I had broken the national record (Australian) in 5 events which had generated protests from a number of coaches.
Now granted, I was ready to jump ship and move there but was in no way feeling that my times should be recognized. The solution was that they designated my swims as "exhibition" s far as records bu still awarded first places. In the 50 fly where I broke the WR they did submit all the paperwork to Fina for recogniton.
All in all I thought they handled as they should have (and we could).............they even asked Laura & I to swim on an "international" relay with a woman from England and a guy from Germany!
