So I have been swimming with a masters team since august and have since then paid my usms membership fee at the end of October to be able to swim in a meet we recently had. I haven't recieved my usms card in the mail yet. In two weeks and am going back home from school for a month but need to swim in a structured program and am gonna find the masters team at home and wanted to know if I could still swim with them without my membership card, is there a way to prove my membership without it?
...in my opinion there should be no costs passed along to members...it would be a very simple and inexpensive process that we be a nice touch...and for the record i already do laminate mine.
Of course there is a cost, and someone would have to pay for it. It is not inexpensive or trivial to send out ANYTHING, no matter how small or cheap, to the entire USMS membership.
People like Jeff have been doing this work for years, unseen in the background, making it all work. It is easy to take it for granted.
Laminated cards as proof of membership is 20th century technology. We should do better..
By my understanding, when the end-to-end-event-mgmt (E2EEM) system is fully implemented, it will be close to completely automated, from the meet sanctioning process, through entries, real-time results, current (national) event rankings and top ten lists. Conceptually there is no reason it can't be done, but implementation is not easy. I think it will happen eventually though.
...in my opinion there should be no costs passed along to members...it would be a very simple and inexpensive process that we be a nice touch...and for the record i already do laminate mine.
Of course there is a cost, and someone would have to pay for it. It is not inexpensive or trivial to send out ANYTHING, no matter how small or cheap, to the entire USMS membership.
People like Jeff have been doing this work for years, unseen in the background, making it all work. It is easy to take it for granted.
Laminated cards as proof of membership is 20th century technology. We should do better..
By my understanding, when the end-to-end-event-mgmt (E2EEM) system is fully implemented, it will be close to completely automated, from the meet sanctioning process, through entries, real-time results, current (national) event rankings and top ten lists. Conceptually there is no reason it can't be done, but implementation is not easy. I think it will happen eventually though.
