Hey everyone, once again I have a question.
In masters swimming is your age, just the age you are during a meet? I am 20 at the moment, but will be 21 on March 4. Not that it really makes much of a difference (as I will be in the same age group), but I am attending a meet on March 3-4th.
It depends upon which type of pool you are swimming in. If the meet is being swum in a 25 or 50 meter pool, then your age is as of December 31 of the year the meet is held. If you are swimming in a 25 yard pool, then your age is as of the last day of the meet. So if you birthday is on the last day and you would move up, you swim in the new age group for the entire meet.
Leo
The logic behind the last/first day is to give the advantage to the swimmer. So for USA Swimming, the advantage is assumed to go to the older swimmer in the age group. For USMS, the advantage is assumed to go to the younger swimmer in the age group.
Leo
Ok, got it. I am in the process of setting up an age group meet with almost 500 swimmers, yikes, so have USA rules on the brain. If I am sane on January 22, I will be lucky.
Since you're a 21 year old for the meet, try using he USMS age logic to get the host team to serve you a celebratory libation saturday afternoon!
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Imagine your the captain of a sailboat, the boat leaves harbour and sails south for 2 miles, west for 1 mile, north for 1 mile, east for 1 mile and north for 1 mile, thus returning to port. How old is the captain?
Every meet that I've done had something on the entry form like, "Your age as of XXX will be the age used for this meet." It has been a while since I've done a meet, but I remember there were different rules for this for SCY, SCM, LCM, as well as nationals, etc. I assumed that the meet director had already done the research and logic before making the statement about age.
