However, it is not just the competitive athlete who benefits from RAM coaching. RAM sponsors and staffs stroke clinics for people of all ages and abilities several times yearly. In addition, RAM athletes volunteer their time as coaches for swim teams in and around Raleigh. Since RAM is a volunteer organization, RAM athletes serve countless hours of their time helping swimmers.

RAM Hosts the 2010 North Carolina State Short Course Championships to be held in Hillsborough, May 1st and 2nd.

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.

The meet social will be at Carolina Brewery in Chapel Hill, 6pm, Saturday, click here to view the menu.

2009 Long Course Nationals RAM Swimmer Results and photos, click here to download pdf file

JOIN RAM

If you are a potentially new swimmer, you may swim with RAM twice as a trial before registering. However, to continue swimming with RAM at Millbrook Exchange, Optimist, and Pullen Park practices, you must be registered for 2009 or 2010. The City of Raleigh requires RAM to be insured, and for insurance to be in effect, All Swimmers must be registered.

RAM charges a monthly fee for those swimmers who swim with the team at Optimist, Pullen, and Millbrook pools, and all members are requested to provide a credit card for monthly payments if you swim with the team at those pools, by clicking here to register online with RAM and pay your monthly fees via Visa or MC If you never swim with the team at the above pools, you may still register with RAM by click on the link in the right hand gray column for Registration Form to download and print RAM's form, please mail it along with your $37 check payable to LMSC for NC to the LMSC registrar.

It is preferable if you register online and pay your 2010 registration fee (good from Nov 1, 2009 until Dec 31, 2010) by going to the USMS website for NC registrations, please make sure you select NCMS as the club and RAM as the workout group, Click here to register online with RAM Thank you

HAPPY NEW YEAR These swimmers brought in the New Year on January 2nd's practice with swimming 10K yards at the Optimist Pool morning practice