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?
Something so simple, so basic as this luggage tag and people shoot it down without any other suggestions...or we fall back on the "were a volunteer organization" or "no one would want that"...I may sit out here alone on this but I absolutely disagree.
In this case, I am disagreeing with you because we have already done this in our LMSC, found out it was a bad idea for us, and stopped doing it. It basically took running a Registrar into the ground -- and her quitting on us in mid-January -- before we realized we needed to streamline the registration process.
Believe me, you do not want an LMSC to go without a Registrar for any length of time. For my money, they are the hardest working people in the LMSC. Fortunately we currently have an excellent one.
But there is no reason you can't do it in your own LMSC. Go for it. Better yet, back it up by volunteering to be the Registrar for your LMSC.
Something so simple, so basic as this luggage tag and people shoot it down without any other suggestions...or we fall back on the "were a volunteer organization" or "no one would want that"...I may sit out here alone on this but I absolutely disagree.
In this case, I am disagreeing with you because we have already done this in our LMSC, found out it was a bad idea for us, and stopped doing it. It basically took running a Registrar into the ground -- and her quitting on us in mid-January -- before we realized we needed to streamline the registration process.
Believe me, you do not want an LMSC to go without a Registrar for any length of time. For my money, they are the hardest working people in the LMSC. Fortunately we currently have an excellent one.
But there is no reason you can't do it in your own LMSC. Go for it. Better yet, back it up by volunteering to be the Registrar for your LMSC.
