I have just recently decided to become dually affiliated with both the USS and USMS (i.e. I am now registered with both organizations). I did this primarily so that I could swim for our local agegroup team at meets in the 17 and over age group. The main advantage for me will be that I can now attend a much larger number of swimming events per season while not having to travel nearly as far to attend swim meets. Since most of the USS meets I will be attending are going to be in Memphis, I can now travel home after each day and return the next day without having to spend the night in a hotel....Also I will be burning a lot less gas getting to the nearby USS meets than I would traveling to USMS meets (even the ones that are the closest to where I live). If you have the same kind of situation in regards to traveling long distances to attend USMS meets and spending too much on traveling expenses, then perhaps you can benefit also from attending USS meets as well?? Also I don't think you necessarily have to be dually affiliated to attend these USS meets?.....(but I'm not really sure how that works to be honest).....I noticed that several other USMS swimmers have attended USS meets before. My first USS meet will be on October 15 and 16. I know I will probably get smoked by a lot of young fast swimmers....but I am still looking forward to the experience none-the-less. If anyone else has ever swam at a USS meet before while also registered as a masters swimmer with the USMS, please share your experience with me/us....How many of y'all are also dually affiliated?
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. I intended on posting a poll for this thread as well to see how many other USMS swimmers have ever attended a USS sanctioned meet....but I'm not sure if I submitted it correctly...so the poll may not actually accompany this posting??
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If you go ahead and get dually affiliated by registering with USA then it won't matter whether or not the host team for a USA meet wants to dually affiliate thier USA meet with USMS since you can always enter their meets as a registered USA swimmer in the 15 and older agegroup.....So I would recommend to you Knelson, to go ahead with the registration with USA you are already considering...(the sooner the better)...then you will never have to worry about finding out what the host team wants to do....I do realize, however, that in the upcoming meet you want to enter you may not have the time to get registered before entering as a USA swimmer...but certainly for any future USA meets it would be very advantageous to already be dually affiliated....much less of a headache IMHO.....Good luck Knelson!.....I'm glad my thread helped you to make up your mind about registering with USA swimming.
Newmastersswimmer
If you go ahead and get dually affiliated by registering with USA then it won't matter whether or not the host team for a USA meet wants to dually affiliate thier USA meet with USMS since you can always enter their meets as a registered USA swimmer in the 15 and older agegroup.....So I would recommend to you Knelson, to go ahead with the registration with USA you are already considering...(the sooner the better)...then you will never have to worry about finding out what the host team wants to do....I do realize, however, that in the upcoming meet you want to enter you may not have the time to get registered before entering as a USA swimmer...but certainly for any future USA meets it would be very advantageous to already be dually affiliated....much less of a headache IMHO.....Good luck Knelson!.....I'm glad my thread helped you to make up your mind about registering with USA swimming.
Newmastersswimmer
