May/June cover of USMS Swimmer

Originally posted by Matt S To give the articles about water aerobic exercises greater heft and credibility, Bill felt compelled to point out that the authors of these articles have themselves set USMS records and performed at the highest levels in USMS. Why is it necessary for someone to be an elite athlete for me to take him/her seriously as a coach or an author? Point of clarification: Jane Katz is an author, but she is not the author of the article. That credit belongs to Amy Wu, first-time writer for SWIMMER who has written for the New York Times. The reason for mentioning Katz was to shed a little ray of light on the poorly conceived point -- brought to us by people who haven’t even read the article -- that no serious swimmer does water aerobics. Katz is a serious swimmer. She does water aerobics. We haven’t had a whole lot of elite level athletes write for the magazine. Most of the time, we use professional writers. Some of these writers are also Masters swimmers. If you take a peek at the author credits on each article, you’ll notice the writers are credited accordingly. Originally posted by msgrupp The only problem, IMHO, is that USMS Swimmer is NOT sold on a newstand or at a bookstore (or at least that I've found). People pick up single copies of magazines based on the cover. Those who have a subscription, which is what most of the people on this board have, receive the issue no matter WHAT the cover is. As I may have mentioned in the past, the magazine was created to lend itself to a possible newsstand presence in the future. However, we were advised to approach that possibility very prudently – and we will discuss it at length whenever the time is right.

Originally posted by Matt S To give the articles about water aerobic exercises greater heft and credibility, Bill felt compelled to point out that the authors of these articles have themselves set USMS records and performed at the highest levels in USMS. Why is it necessary for someone to be an elite athlete for me to take him/her seriously as a coach or an author? Point of clarification: Jane Katz is an author, but she is not the author of the article. That credit belongs to Amy Wu, first-time writer for SWIMMER who has written for the New York Times. The reason for mentioning Katz was to shed a little ray of light on the poorly conceived point -- brought to us by people who haven’t even read the article -- that no serious swimmer does water aerobics. Katz is a serious swimmer. She does water aerobics. We haven’t had a whole lot of elite level athletes write for the magazine. Most of the time, we use professional writers. Some of these writers are also Masters swimmers. If you take a peek at the author credits on each article, you’ll notice the writers are credited accordingly. Originally posted by msgrupp The only problem, IMHO, is that USMS Swimmer is NOT sold on a newstand or at a bookstore (or at least that I've found). People pick up single copies of magazines based on the cover. Those who have a subscription, which is what most of the people on this board have, receive the issue no matter WHAT the cover is. As I may have mentioned in the past, the magazine was created to lend itself to a possible newsstand presence in the future. However, we were advised to approach that possibility very prudently – and we will discuss it at length whenever the time is right.