Hi, all. You guys are some of the people I respect most.
As "race directors", we can find an alternate insurance coverage. But can we somehow be able to be recognized events by USMS? That way, we can hold OW events that are listed on the calendar. And, why has the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim been taken off the USMS calendar? We're not going to be sanctioned by USMS, but we're going to make an announcement soon regarding the alternate sanctioning. There are events for Barbados and Bermuda listed, and they can't even be considered for USMS sanctioning.
But can we somehow be able to be recognized events by USMS? That way, we can hold OW events that are listed on the calendar. And, why has the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim been taken off the USMS calendar? We're not going to be sanctioned by USMS, but we're going to make an announcement soon regarding the alternate sanctioning.
Hey Ron,
I am much more familiar with recognition of pool events: they agree to follow USMS rules (and a few other caveats) but open it to non-members, and the times of USMS members are eligible for USMS purposes. I am not familiar with recognition for OW events or why that would be important, maybe someone else here can enlighten both of us.
Have you requested the event be put on the calendar? If you go here:
www.usms.org/.../request.php
it looks to me like it is possible for an event to be displayed on the calendar even if not sanctioned or recognized. I know for sanction/recognition it goes thru your LMSC's sanction chair, I don't know about calendar requests, which would also include things like clinics.
Possibly people might say that this is a USMS resource that is reserved for USMS events; that decision would be above my pay-grade.
I know on our LMSC's calendar (which I maintain), the policy is that nearby non-USMS OW events are displayed unless they "compete" with (ie are on the same day as) a nearby sanctioned event. My theory is that having a calendar with a full slate of local OW events, even if unsanctioned, serves our members well; I get requests about nearby OW events otherwise, since we usually only have 2 sanctioned OW events per summer.
Hope to see you in Richmond soon.
But can we somehow be able to be recognized events by USMS? That way, we can hold OW events that are listed on the calendar. And, why has the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim been taken off the USMS calendar? We're not going to be sanctioned by USMS, but we're going to make an announcement soon regarding the alternate sanctioning.
Hey Ron,
I am much more familiar with recognition of pool events: they agree to follow USMS rules (and a few other caveats) but open it to non-members, and the times of USMS members are eligible for USMS purposes. I am not familiar with recognition for OW events or why that would be important, maybe someone else here can enlighten both of us.
Have you requested the event be put on the calendar? If you go here:
www.usms.org/.../request.php
it looks to me like it is possible for an event to be displayed on the calendar even if not sanctioned or recognized. I know for sanction/recognition it goes thru your LMSC's sanction chair, I don't know about calendar requests, which would also include things like clinics.
Possibly people might say that this is a USMS resource that is reserved for USMS events; that decision would be above my pay-grade.
I know on our LMSC's calendar (which I maintain), the policy is that nearby non-USMS OW events are displayed unless they "compete" with (ie are on the same day as) a nearby sanctioned event. My theory is that having a calendar with a full slate of local OW events, even if unsanctioned, serves our members well; I get requests about nearby OW events otherwise, since we usually only have 2 sanctioned OW events per summer.
Hope to see you in Richmond soon.
