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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TAAF did have rules for USAS swimmers swimming in TAAF meets. I am not sure if it applies to the older age groups or for USMS swimmers. Best to check with them.
They wanted to keep the playing field level for their summer-only swimmers. TAAF's niche is to provide a fun swim team experience for recreational swimmers, not for those serious enough to swim year-round.
Slightly OT as it relates to age group, but R would love to swim year round, and I would be happy for her to, but on a 3 x week basis rather than 5 or 6 times.
Our "local" team in the neighbouring ISD is 5 x per week and starts at 4pm but R doesn't finish school until 3.45pm which is another frustrating problem.....even if we really wanted to do year round age group we couldn't.
Anyway - our summer team did a fall program which worked well, just a shame we can't have something year round say 3 x per week at a sensible time. Are there clubs like this out there but we just live in an area where its all or nothing?
Sorry, vent over :bolt:
TAAF did have rules for USAS swimmers swimming in TAAF meets. I am not sure if it applies to the older age groups or for USMS swimmers. Best to check with them.
They wanted to keep the playing field level for their summer-only swimmers. TAAF's niche is to provide a fun swim team experience for recreational swimmers, not for those serious enough to swim year-round.
Slightly OT as it relates to age group, but R would love to swim year round, and I would be happy for her to, but on a 3 x week basis rather than 5 or 6 times.
Our "local" team in the neighbouring ISD is 5 x per week and starts at 4pm but R doesn't finish school until 3.45pm which is another frustrating problem.....even if we really wanted to do year round age group we couldn't.
Anyway - our summer team did a fall program which worked well, just a shame we can't have something year round say 3 x per week at a sensible time. Are there clubs like this out there but we just live in an area where its all or nothing?
Sorry, vent over :bolt:
