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| Meet | Entry Deadline |
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| Wilmington Family YMCA Pier-to-Pier Swim Saturday, September 13th, 2008
4th annual event held by the Family Y in Wrightsville Beach, NC.
This meet is a Recognized meet where swimmers
may be other than registered USMS and USA Swimmers. There will be no race day entries
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September 4th, 2008 500 swimmers maximum |
| Steve Barden Memorial Masters Swim Meet
Asheville, NC, Saturday and Sunday, September 20th and 21st, 2008 This is a combined pool and open water meet which substitutes the open water portion for the normal 1000 and 1650 indoor events on Saturday morning
Click to download Meet Information and Entry form in Adobe Acrobat
pdf format
Click to download color brocure advertising the meet | Received by 5pm, September 7th, 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 2008'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 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
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 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: July 1, 2008
http://www.NCmasters.org/index.html