Does membership with USA Swimming (not USMS) require any sort of attachment to a specific club? Or, in other words, can I join USAS and go swim whatever meets they have as an "unattached" swimmer. The master's program I swim with only had USMS affiliation.
On a similar note, do times achieved in a USMS meet have any sort of merrit for making Q times for something like a Grand Prix meet?
Does membership with USA Swimming (not USMS) require any sort of attachment to a specific club? Or, in other words, can I join USAS and go swim whatever meets they have as an "unattached" swimmer. The master's program I swim with only had USMS affiliation.
On a similar note, do times achieved in a USMS meet have any sort of merrit for making Q times for something like a Grand Prix meet?
I heard that when you USMS Nationals, you can have your times submitted to the USA Swimming database if you are a registered USA swimmer, I think. I don't think that the meet director will do that at a Zone Championship which would be really nice.
You might want to do a A/BB/C Meet before the grand prix so you have the qualifying times in the books just in case you aren't feeling 100% on the day of the Grand Prix meet. I heard that you get fined now at these Senior Meets with specific Qualifying Times if you don't make the qualifying times. I wish that was around in my day because there were people who would go to the annual travel meet(ie Buffalo or Pittsburgh) and they didn't even come close to having the QT Times. They just went for the social aspect of the trip.
Does membership with USA Swimming (not USMS) require any sort of attachment to a specific club? Or, in other words, can I join USAS and go swim whatever meets they have as an "unattached" swimmer. The master's program I swim with only had USMS affiliation.
On a similar note, do times achieved in a USMS meet have any sort of merrit for making Q times for something like a Grand Prix meet?
I heard that when you USMS Nationals, you can have your times submitted to the USA Swimming database if you are a registered USA swimmer, I think. I don't think that the meet director will do that at a Zone Championship which would be really nice.
You might want to do a A/BB/C Meet before the grand prix so you have the qualifying times in the books just in case you aren't feeling 100% on the day of the Grand Prix meet. I heard that you get fined now at these Senior Meets with specific Qualifying Times if you don't make the qualifying times. I wish that was around in my day because there were people who would go to the annual travel meet(ie Buffalo or Pittsburgh) and they didn't even come close to having the QT Times. They just went for the social aspect of the trip.
