Entering a USA-S meet?

I don't know if the pool is short or not but I bet Chris is correct: they simply haven't measured it. USA-S only requires a pool measurement if a record is set (NAG, for instance). And they probably figure NAG records won't be set in this particular meet so they haven't bothered to get the pool certified. For USMS, however, the pool must be certified for the times to be eligible for Top Ten consideration. But keep in mind you can ask to have the times submitted to USMS Event Rankings since those times are not tied in to the Top Ten rankings. It's a little bit of work to extract the times from a USA-S meet to import into our database but it can be done. That's why you have to be nice to your local Top Ten recorder. But in this case you're not turning your times in for TT so I suppose any USMS administrator with access to Event Rankings can do the work for you. Which means you should be nice to all of those people :D Thanks Jeff and Chris. I will contact the meet director and see what is up with this pool. Since I might be having surgery in Aug, this might be one of only 2 LCM meets I get in this summer. Oh and I am always nice to my Top 10 person. I even took a lovely picture of him at Nationals :) What's even better than beating the "young" kids is when you lap them! I was entered in a USA-S meet with NT for the 200 IM. They threw me in a heat with times that were about 15 sec above my time. I lapped one girl and came in 1st in my heat :)

I don't know if the pool is short or not but I bet Chris is correct: they simply haven't measured it. USA-S only requires a pool measurement if a record is set (NAG, for instance). And they probably figure NAG records won't be set in this particular meet so they haven't bothered to get the pool certified. For USMS, however, the pool must be certified for the times to be eligible for Top Ten consideration. But keep in mind you can ask to have the times submitted to USMS Event Rankings since those times are not tied in to the Top Ten rankings. It's a little bit of work to extract the times from a USA-S meet to import into our database but it can be done. That's why you have to be nice to your local Top Ten recorder. But in this case you're not turning your times in for TT so I suppose any USMS administrator with access to Event Rankings can do the work for you. Which means you should be nice to all of those people :D Thanks Jeff and Chris. I will contact the meet director and see what is up with this pool. Since I might be having surgery in Aug, this might be one of only 2 LCM meets I get in this summer. Oh and I am always nice to my Top 10 person. I even took a lovely picture of him at Nationals :) What's even better than beating the "young" kids is when you lap them! I was entered in a USA-S meet with NT for the 200 IM. They threw me in a heat with times that were about 15 sec above my time. I lapped one girl and came in 1st in my heat :)