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?
Paul - I'll fully admit I've only been skimming this. I have no problem with your ideas. I simply question the implementation of some of them (like the laminated bag tag that I now realize you are just using as a hypothetical example).
Doug - if you only have 862 members for the whole year, yes, that is puny! Pacific has over 10,000 members, SPMA has 3-4k swimmers (I think). Colorado is about 2300 and Potomac Valley is over 2200. What may work for an LMSC with only 862 members is not going to be practical for an LMSC several times larger, and that was the point I was trying to make.
Paul - I'll fully admit I've only been skimming this. I have no problem with your ideas. I simply question the implementation of some of them (like the laminated bag tag that I now realize you are just using as a hypothetical example).
Doug - if you only have 862 members for the whole year, yes, that is puny! Pacific has over 10,000 members, SPMA has 3-4k swimmers (I think). Colorado is about 2300 and Potomac Valley is over 2200. What may work for an LMSC with only 862 members is not going to be practical for an LMSC several times larger, and that was the point I was trying to make.
