Ok, so a little about me - I grew up in the UK, swam age group up to 18, took a break then retuned as a master about 10 years ago. I swam on & off during that time as marriage, kids and a move to the US all got in the way.
Now in the UK all competitive swimmers (all age group standards, masters etc) must register with the ASA for insurance purposes etc and it is all done through the club.
So what happens here as there seems to be so many different swimming "bodies"? Right now I cannot fathom being on a poolside 30 mins from home at 5.15am, so am going it alone.....If sometime in the future I wanted to enter a meet do I need to register with USMS? Am I allowed to, not being a US citizen? And how does this interact with the summer swimming teams?
I will likely register with TAAF to swim this summer (due to an unfortunate deal with my 6 year old) so would being part of USMS mean that I'm considered "year round" and render me ineligible for the summer meets in the future?
Thanks in advance (and for reading this far :blush:)
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Thanks Nancy - I will check with TAAF if I decide to join USMS and want to swim again next summer (Although R will be swimming 8u as a 7 yr old by then, not in the new 6u age, so should be less likely to make the A meet times.........then again the bet was originally based on 8u breaststroke.....)
So for this year I'll hold off on the USMS membership and by the end of July I might have figured out the TAAF rules. Or decided I really am too old to swim 18+ and join USMS anyway.
Thanks Nancy - I will check with TAAF if I decide to join USMS and want to swim again next summer (Although R will be swimming 8u as a 7 yr old by then, not in the new 6u age, so should be less likely to make the A meet times.........then again the bet was originally based on 8u breaststroke.....)
So for this year I'll hold off on the USMS membership and by the end of July I might have figured out the TAAF rules. Or decided I really am too old to swim 18+ and join USMS anyway.
