I have seen many of the posts made here from master swimmers from all over the USA, Canada and the World.
It has me wondering about the state of master swimming.
1. Which State has the most swim meets.
2. Which State has the most master swimmers registered.
3. How many master swimmers registered are in the USA
Rather than trying to get free USAS or other memberships, maybe the better road to take would be to get more USAS meets dual sanctioned? Kind of a hassle for the meet directors, I know, but I believe this has been done before in PV.
What PV did a while back was have the PVS (USA-S) meets automatically recognized by PVLMSC. It wasn't a true dual sanction (a dual sanction would mean you could enter the PVS meet as a USMS member). You still had to be a fully registered USA-S member to enter the PVS meet; but if you were also USMS registered it meant your times could get submitted for masters recognition. But a few years ago when we had to start turning in pool measurement and bulkhead cert forms for our times to be official, we did away with adding the automatic recognition to PVS meets.
Not sure if all of this makes sense, but just wanted to clarify we didn't actually have dual sanctioned meets in PV. I've heard of meets like that but I think you have to have separate heats for masters and for USA-S.
Rather than trying to get free USAS or other memberships, maybe the better road to take would be to get more USAS meets dual sanctioned? Kind of a hassle for the meet directors, I know, but I believe this has been done before in PV.
What PV did a while back was have the PVS (USA-S) meets automatically recognized by PVLMSC. It wasn't a true dual sanction (a dual sanction would mean you could enter the PVS meet as a USMS member). You still had to be a fully registered USA-S member to enter the PVS meet; but if you were also USMS registered it meant your times could get submitted for masters recognition. But a few years ago when we had to start turning in pool measurement and bulkhead cert forms for our times to be official, we did away with adding the automatic recognition to PVS meets.
Not sure if all of this makes sense, but just wanted to clarify we didn't actually have dual sanctioned meets in PV. I've heard of meets like that but I think you have to have separate heats for masters and for USA-S.
