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To find out more about US Masters Swimming and the North Carolina Masters Swimming organization, please click on the reference. Thank you for visiting our web site.
| Meet | Entry Deadline |
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| Stroke Clinic with David Marsh and his "Elite Swimmers" Asheville, May 17, 2008 Click to download brochure 
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limited to 60 swimmers |
| NC Swimming Open Water Championships
Seven Lakes, West End, NC, about 10 miles from Pinehurst, Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th, 2008
Note: If you do not have a current 2008 USMS registration, One Event Registrations will be available at this meet for $18.00, but we encourage everyone to have a 2008 registration. A $20 late fee applies to meet entries if not received by Thursday, May 22nd. Directions to the event posted by clicking here |
Received by Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| State Games of North Carolina
Lindley Pool, Greensboro, NC, June 28th and 29th, 2008 This is a RECOGNIZED event being held in North Carolina where both youth age group swimmers as well as non USMS swimmers 18 or over can participate. Click to link to the NC Amateur Sports Website and register for the State Games of NC's meet |
received by June 18th, 2008 |
For a list of meets in the Dixie Zone (North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee), please go to the Dixie Zone website and click on Meets and Results.
Note: PDF meet entry forms must be viewed with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Instructions can be found on this site by clicking here. You can stil use your browser and view the plain text pages as linked above. You can also print the pages from your browser, but you may have to change your fonts in order to get the entry forms to print correctly.
For a list of events in Virginia, please go to Virginia Masters website upcoming meets page
To see the team list for all teams in the state and then get information on those teams, click here, then click on the individual team to see pool, schedule, and cost information. Registration for the year 2008 began on November 1st, 2007. A registration form for each NC team is also available as well as a generic form that can be used for all teams except RAM, which has its own form.
A list of our members (names and registration number only) and their team affiliation can be found on this site sorted by name or sorted by team. This list is updated periodically, approximately once per month. Remember, you must be registered for the year 2007 or 2008 after January 1st with any team that requires insurance in order to participate in USMS functions.
A information can be found if you are thinking about starting a new Masters Swim Team in NC
The 
June 2007's issue is on line
and will as mailed to those swimmers who did not indicate they wanted to receive the issue via email.
Since the issues is mailed via bulk mail,
if your address did not change, you should received your issue by late June.
The issue is now available in
Adobe Acrobat pdf format for easy viewing and printing, identical to the printed version
.
For Across the Lanes current and previous issues and articles, including indices for each issue, click here. Thanks to Jim Enyart, our newsletter editor, for doing another fine job on this issue and issues for the past 10 years. Our new newsletter editor will be Joe Gosha, our current Chairman for our LMSC
Thanks to Dan Schad who
updates the records for all three courses.
The
individual events for the Short Course Yards and Short Course Meters records
have been updated through May, 2004.
The format is in tables of all records for each course. There is a table which contains links to the records and can be viewed by clicking the LMSC for North Carolina Swimmer's Records Link. Henry Stewart is our Top Ten Chairperson, providing those records to the National Top Ten Committee. Should you find an error, or have broken one of the existing records at a swim meet outside of North Carolina, please notify Henry directly at
Our LMSC is represented by officers from all corners of the state, from Kannapolis (NCMS), our Chairman, and newsletter letter editor, ; from Asheville (Asheville Masters Swimming) our Vice Chairman, ; from Durham (Tar Heel Aquatic Team), our Secretary, ; from Charlotte (Charlotte SwimMasters) our Treasurer ; and from Raleigh (Raleigh Area Masters) our Registrar and Web Master, yours truly .
For addresses of our officers, refer to the latest issues of Across the Lanes newsletter listings
Note, not many are left, so if you want one, you need to order it soon
Our USMS sponsor Kast-A-Way Swimwear has a special team offer for NCMS logo Swimwear at team discounted prices. Price lists and a photo of the logo can be seen by clicking NCMS logo Swimwear.
North Carolina's Meet Manager's Handbook which gives guidance and instructions for holding swim meets in accordance with the USMS and LMSC for NC rules is now also available. This document was published in January 1995 and mailed to those persons holding sanctioned USMS meets in NC. Click Meet Manager's Handbook if you want to read it.
A copy of the current United States Masters Swimming Rules Book is available on the USMS web site. Anyone who plans to compete in a United States Masters Swimming sanctioned swim meet should be familiar with it. There is a section which defines the rules by which the strokes, turns, and finishes are judged click to download the pdf file. This is only one small section of the USMS rule book, but it is the section from where the "dq's" come. The entire 2007 Rules Book can be viewed on the USMS web site, in Adobe Acrobat Reader (pdf) format at http://www.usms.org/rules/
Any individual can purchase the 2006 USMS Rules book after January 1, 2006 for $8.00 by writing the Nationals Office at the following address:
USMS National Office
PO Box 185
Londonderry, NH 03053-0185
The USMS web site for linkages to other sites, great articles on all facets of swimming, for competitive, fitness, and training, and administration of the national organization is at United States Masters Swimming's home page. The URL is http://www.usms.org. This is a MUST BROWSE web site.
SWIM Magazine and other associated swimming magazines have feature articles from each issue and can be found at the following URL: http://www.swiminfo.com
This Web Site is managed by , who is also the Registrar for Masters Swimming in North Carolina. Please report any errors or omissions to him. George would also like to hear how the page can be improved or what you would like to see. Thank you.
Updated: April 27, 2008
http://www.NCmasters.org/index.html