Hey everyone,
I have a problem...I don't train very vigrously or religiously when theres no meets in site...so....because there are so few masters meets around me, I am also re-joining US swimming. ((is that allowed? To swim both?))
I was wondering though...how does one get a hold of registration forms for those meets does anyone know? I will be swimming unattached...but I was messing around on the metroswimming website and couldn't find anywhere that had registration forms for meets that I could print and sign up...
I suppose this would be better asked on a US forum, but I couldn't find that either:o
if anyone could direct me in the right direction that'd be great!
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I see this thread has been inactive for a while, but it's been very useful to me. I would also like to swim some USS meets because I really like long course meters and there are very few LCM meets here in the Dixie zone. My question for y'all is this: If you need times from another USA Swimming meet to qualify for a USA Swimming meet, how do I enter my first ever USA Swimming meet? My times are decent, so I am unwilling to enter 'NT' and swim against a struggling 15-year-old. That's just not cool. I thought about swimming just time trials to get official times for the next meet. Would that work? Thanks for any advice y'all can give!
We've had rule changes in the past year.
The rules are possibly different for each LSC based on their Policies and Procedures and also for each meet. Ours are written based on the 95% rule where swimmers CAN prove seed times and therefore the developing swimmers will need to establish seed times in SWIMS (USAS National Database times). There may be problems for the other 5%. For the early season meets, there is more flexibility; later in the season you have to have provable times.
If you are associated with a USAS team, talk with your team's entries chair; otherwise you will want to talk to the meet director for that meet.
Thanks for the input, folks. I wrote to a meet director of an upcoming meet. She said I would only have an issue with proving my time if I failed to make the cut in the USS Meet, like Blackbeard's Peg said. So, I think I'm all set for the first USS meet, and then should be fine once I get those 'official' times.
