Need Info on setting up an Open Water Event

RE: Need Info on setting up an Open Water Event

Rob Copeland — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:05:35 GMT

I found the USA-Swimming Open Water Meet Managers guide online at: www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/Documents/cb2d908a-bc13-4680-9b0a-c1a62ee3612c/Open%20Water%20Meet%20Managers%20Guide.pdf

RE: Need Info on setting up an Open Water Event

Former Member — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:26:56 GMT

This is so exciting! Wisdom, I want you to know you're not the only one out there wanting to organize open-water swims and wanting a little help from those with experience. I organized a swim across the Strait of Messina (from Sicily to Calabria, Italy) on the 8th of August this year. Not knowing what the heck I was doing but wanting to do whatever I did right, I limited participation to only 10 swimmers, 2 of which are paraplegic. It was an enormous amount of work, but in the end everything went not only smoothly but just plain wonderfully! So great that all 10 of us want to do it again next year, and I get contacted all the time by tons people. Now that I did it once, I know the ropes, but any information passed on to me, from anywhere in the world where open water events take place, is highly appreciated. I just love the way it says in the manual that doing open water events puts your town on the map. That's great! Thanks Wisdom for your question, and thanks Rob for your wisdom!

RE: Need Info on setting up an Open Water Event

Former Member — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 07:25:46 GMT

Awesome Rob, Thanks.

RE: Need Info on setting up an Open Water Event

Rob Copeland — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:21:47 GMT

Check out the Meet director’s guide on the USMS web site: www.usms.org/longdist/champsguide.pdf www.usms.org/longdist/owman.pdf USA-Swimming also has a meet directors handbook it should be somewhere ion their web site. I have it in hard copy, but can’t find the e-version right now.