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| Meet | Entry Deadline |
|---|---|
| Charlotte Swim Masters 36th Annual Sunbelt Championships
Charlotte, NC, Saturday and Sunday, RESCHEDULED to February 13th and 14th, 2010
Everyone is urged to enter this meet is via on line submission of the
meet entry form and paying via credit card, you must have your 2010 registration number to register
click here to enter the meet
For North Carolina Swimmers, our club is NCMS, North Carolina Masters Swimming,
and each team is listed as a workout group, please make sure you accurately choose the correct club and team, you will have to scroll down to find North Carolina Masters Swimming and then choose your workout group. Thank you. Note: You must have a current 2010 USMS registration to participate,
One Event Registrations will NOT be available at this meet, and there are no deck entries.
|
8:00pm EST Sunday, February 7, 2010 |
| Frank Clark Masters Open
Greensboro, NC, RESCHEDULED to Saturday March 20, 2010
Note: One Event Registrations will NOT be available at this meet, you must have your 2010 USMS registration to participate |
received by midnight Monday, March 15 |
| Duke Aquatics Spring Splash
Durham, NC, has been cancelled
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cancelled |
| Announcing North Carolina Short Course Yards Championships rescheduled date and location
Hillsborough, NC, Saturday and Sunday, May 1st and 2nd, 2010
| TBD |
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 2009 began on November 1st, 2008. 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 work out groups only) and their team affiliation can be found on this site sorted by entire LMSC or workout out group. This list is updated immediately when a person registers. Remember, you must be registered for the year 2009 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 
The Fall 2009'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 early May.
The issue is only 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. Our new newsletter editor is Joe Gosha, past chairman of our LMSC.
It is costly to print and mail newsletters, and not environmental friendly. The printed copies are not in color as is the online issue, if you have requested a mailed copy, and are satisified with reading it online, please notify NC's registrar and ask for an emailed copy only.
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 November, 2007
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 Charlotte (NCMS), our Chairman, and newsletter letter editor from Kannapolis, ; from Asheville (Asheville Masters Swimming) our Vice Chairman, ; from New Bern (Twin Rivers YMCA Masters), our Secretary, ; from Durham (DUKE Aquatics) 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
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 2008 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 2009 USMS Rules book after January 1, 2009 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: January 15, 2010
http://www.NCmasters.org/index.html