Who are they?
You may have noticed that we're posting weekly news features at the top of the USMS home page. As we approach the trials, we'd like to run one on the trials and the Masters that have made the cuts and are competing.
If you know of someone who fits this profile, please respond and we'll let everyone know who, what events, and when to check their progress. :banana:
Thanks!
Nancy
Anyone that pays their $37 (or whatever your LMSC charges). That is the official USMS swimmer. Included in the what, 43,000+ USMS headcount.
You could also belong to YMCA masters, but that's another organization. Or you could be a generic masters swimmer, like a lot of DAMM members who don't register USMS ('cause we have team insurance).
Masters swimmers by the true definition...
have two to three kids
a full time career or small business
chronic lingering pain in one or more limbs or lower back
spent at least ten or more years dry (no swimming whatsoever)
and maintain sporadic workout schedules due to all of the aforementioned criteria
The only technically correct definition is chowmi's, but I like quicksilver's better in a way. Really, in my mind, your a masters swimmer if you consider yourself first and foremost to be a masters swimmer. Maybe Susan Von der Lippe is a masters swimmer by that definition and maybe some of these others are not.
That's not to take anything away from their abilities and accomplishments. They're all awesome swimmers! :bow:
Anyone that pays their $37 (or whatever your LMSC charges). That is the official USMS swimmer. Included in the what, 43,000+ USMS headcount.
You could also belong to YMCA masters, but that's another organization. Or you could be a generic masters swimmer, like a lot of DAMM members who don't register USMS ('cause we have team insurance).
Masters swimmers by the true definition...
have two to three kids
a full time career or small business
chronic lingering pain in one or more limbs or lower back
spent at least ten or more years dry (no swimming whatsoever)
and maintain sporadic workout schedules due to all of the aforementioned criteria
The only technically correct definition is chowmi's, but I like quicksilver's better in a way. Really, in my mind, your a masters swimmer if you consider yourself first and foremost to be a masters swimmer. Maybe Susan Von der Lippe is a masters swimmer by that definition and maybe some of these others are not.
That's not to take anything away from their abilities and accomplishments. They're all awesome swimmers! :bow:
