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This is an interesting discussion. I’m glad to see that Susan and Mike have friends that are concerned about their swims. I have dealt with this problem for years, including a masters WR set in a USA meet that did not count for WR but it did count for top ten and masters record. This made my USA record faster than the WR. In order to count for masters WR you must swim in a sanctioned Masters meet that is held in a certified pool. You must do the paper work yourself: 1. Before you swim, check with Walt Reid to be sure the pool length is on file. If the meet in held in a pool with a bulkhead, you must make sure each lane is measured both before and after the meet. 2. After your swim, you must fill out the WR application form and have it signed by the referee and head timer. Do not leave the pool without this documentation. Get a computer printout of the results of the heat you were in. Get the program that says you were in the correct lane corresponding to the printout. 3. Mail all documentation papers to Walt Reid certified mail before May 1 and Nov. 1. There have been several swimmers who have been left out of the Masters Swimmers of the Year because they did not know that meets in November and December did not count for that year. If you are having a birthday Jan. 1 and moving to a new age group, the times set in Nov and Dec do not move up to the next age group Jan 1. So, if you plan to try for WMS with a new age group birthday, you must do all your swims between January 1 and Nov. 1………….I would suggest by the middle of Oct so all the paperwork can arrive by Nov.1. As Frank Thompson says, this puts USA swimmers at a disadvantage if the SCM season is only in the fall and there are few meets to swim in Sept and Oct. The solution to this could be to have FINA move the date to Jan. 1 to accommodate USA swimmers, but I don’t think that will happen. I have asked Walt Reid several times to try this. Another solution is to run more SCM meets in the Spring instead of yards. This even applies to USA swimmers and the NCAA meets. The NCAA meet was run one year in meters with World Records being set. The last NCAA meet was held in a 50 meter facility with bulkheads, easily could have been done in short course meters. Would the winners of the NCAA meets set any World Records? Who knows, they didn’t get the chance. It’s interesting to note that if you check the present world records not one of them was set in the US. The present solution…………….go swim in Canada. They swim meters all year.

This is an interesting discussion. I’m glad to see that Susan and Mike have friends that are concerned about their swims. I have dealt with this problem for years, including a masters WR set in a USA meet that did not count for WR but it did count for top ten and masters record. This made my USA record faster than the WR. In order to count for masters WR you must swim in a sanctioned Masters meet that is held in a certified pool. You must do the paper work yourself: 1. Before you swim, check with Walt Reid to be sure the pool length is on file. If the meet in held in a pool with a bulkhead, you must make sure each lane is measured both before and after the meet. 2. After your swim, you must fill out the WR application form and have it signed by the referee and head timer. Do not leave the pool without this documentation. Get a computer printout of the results of the heat you were in. Get the program that says you were in the correct lane corresponding to the printout. 3. Mail all documentation papers to Walt Reid certified mail before May 1 and Nov. 1. There have been several swimmers who have been left out of the Masters Swimmers of the Year because they did not know that meets in November and December did not count for that year. If you are having a birthday Jan. 1 and moving to a new age group, the times set in Nov and Dec do not move up to the next age group Jan 1. So, if you plan to try for WMS with a new age group birthday, you must do all your swims between January 1 and Nov. 1………….I would suggest by the middle of Oct so all the paperwork can arrive by Nov.1. As Frank Thompson says, this puts USA swimmers at a disadvantage if the SCM season is only in the fall and there are few meets to swim in Sept and Oct. The solution to this could be to have FINA move the date to Jan. 1 to accommodate USA swimmers, but I don’t think that will happen. I have asked Walt Reid several times to try this. Another solution is to run more SCM meets in the Spring instead of yards. This even applies to USA swimmers and the NCAA meets. The NCAA meet was run one year in meters with World Records being set. The last NCAA meet was held in a 50 meter facility with bulkheads, easily could have been done in short course meters. Would the winners of the NCAA meets set any World Records? Who knows, they didn’t get the chance. It’s interesting to note that if you check the present world records not one of them was set in the US. The present solution…………….go swim in Canada. They swim meters all year.