Why is it that Masters level swimmers who participate in USS sanctioned meets under a separate USS registration can't have their times automatically qualify for USMS rankings and USMS National records? What is the reason for this separation? The rules with USMS and USS seem parallel enough to allow USS swims to qualify under USMS ranking and records. Do we care if elite older swimmers in their 30's (say Gary Hall Jr.) effectively end up owning the USMS national record by default? Is USMS afraid of merging to closely with USS? Why wouldn't USMS want to recognize the true best performance by and old man/women in the pool regardless of whether their card said USS or USMS on it?
John Smith
Frank,
Another way of looking a dual sanctioned meets is that we are holding two meets in the same place at the same time. One of the options available would be to comix the meets in a manner that looks like it is one meet (as opposed to giving one half of the pool to one organization and the other half to the other). So in this case, we dynamically assign lanes to each of the two meets depending upon which meet needs it. For example, in the heat prior to you getting up to swim in lane 4, there is a 16 year old USA Swimming kid wondering why/how this old guy like you (and me) is seeded in the heat faster than he. He was swimming the the USA Swimming meet in what was a USA Swimming lane at the time and you are swimming in the USMS meet in the same lane that is now assigned to USMS. So FINA doesn't have to worry about what kind of meet it is because it is a USMS meet.
About your other comment, unless someone has dual membership, there is no swimming in the other organization's meets.
Hope this helps,
Leo
Frank,
Another way of looking a dual sanctioned meets is that we are holding two meets in the same place at the same time. One of the options available would be to comix the meets in a manner that looks like it is one meet (as opposed to giving one half of the pool to one organization and the other half to the other). So in this case, we dynamically assign lanes to each of the two meets depending upon which meet needs it. For example, in the heat prior to you getting up to swim in lane 4, there is a 16 year old USA Swimming kid wondering why/how this old guy like you (and me) is seeded in the heat faster than he. He was swimming the the USA Swimming meet in what was a USA Swimming lane at the time and you are swimming in the USMS meet in the same lane that is now assigned to USMS. So FINA doesn't have to worry about what kind of meet it is because it is a USMS meet.
About your other comment, unless someone has dual membership, there is no swimming in the other organization's meets.
Hope this helps,
Leo
