North Carolina Year 2010 Registration Forms

On Line Registration

The easiest way to renew your registration or register as a new person with a team in North Carolina is to do it with our secure online registration system powered by Club Assistant. The new system requires a payment with a Visa or MasterCard. The terminology used for North Carolina Masters Swimming Club's teams are called Workout Groups (see below for a more detailed discussion). If you are renewing, just use your 5 digit permanent ID, which is the last 5 digits of your registration number, i.e., 138A-02222 where the 02222 is the permanent ID. You will have to verify your date of birth, and use the same name you used previously on your registration card, the system will prompt you and is simple to use. The secure link to register on line with North Carolina can be found by clicking here to register for North Carolina Masters Swimming Club - thank you.

When you register online, you will have the opportunity to print your registration card as well as have the registrar mail you one, no waiting to get your 2010 number. Please consider printing your own card to save our LMSC the cost of envelopes and postage, thank you.

If you are already registered and need a copy of your registration card, you can print one if you have the Adobe Acrobat reader software version 7 or higher installed on your system, just go to the link and enter the proper information: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/usms_member_card_request.cfm

You can still register via paper, all of the North Carolina Masters Swimming Workout Group (Chapter) year 2010 registration forms are now available in PDF (Portable Document Format) files for download and printing. A text based form is available and can be viewable and printable from your browser. Additional printing instructions are available at the bottom of this page.

Please allow up to 2 weeks to process registrations via paper forms.

2010 Registration Season starts November 1st, 2009. The 2010 registrations will be valid for the remainder of 2009 and all of 2010, the fee will be $37. You must not use a 2009 form marked up to 2010, it will be returned because new wording is required for 2010 registrations. 2010 registration forms will be posted on this website October 23rd, please do not complete or mail them until November 1st, better yet, register online!

All checks must be made payable to LMSC for NC.

Please consider receiving your North Carolina Masters Swimming Newsletter, Across the Lanes, by email instead of postal, it saves postage and paper, thank you.

Workout Groups, what are my options to join
North Carolina is one of the many LMSC Local Masters Swimming Committee) organizations throughout the US that has within its boundaries, one club which can be considered a "super club", that is, NC has one big club, North Carolina Masters Swimming (NCMS), which has many teams, or as USMS formally recognizes them - "workout groups". These groups are the teams you are familiar with, such as SwimMAC, Raleigh Area Masters, Asheville Masters Swimming, Duke Aquatics, etc. (all of them are shown below with customized forms for each team). In North Carolina, when we have a swim meet, we compete among ourselves as teams of these "workout groups" and score the meet by "workout groups". We also allow our NCMS swimmers to band together as a NCMS team and form relays to see if a record can be broken for a relay. For out of state and national level meets, everyone that is not registered as unattached must compete as members of one club, NCMS, since "workout groups" are not formally recognized out of our state boundaries. In NC, there are many swimmers who belong to NCMS, and do not specify a "workout group", similar to being unattached but still having the ability to easily join a "workout group" or in a meet, join a relay team of other swimmers in the NCMS club. Registering as totally unattached will prohibit you from participating on a relay, as you must belong to a club to be a member of relay, and in North Carolina, it is North Carolina Masters Swimming Club.

There is one other club in NC, in Fayetteville, all other teams are affiliated with North Carolina Masters Swimming Club

Year 2010 Forms - browser printable format

(the pdf formats below print better and take less paper and are customized for each team)

Generic Form for all NC Teams
(you may need to reduce your browser font size to get it to print properly)

Transfer Form.

PDF Year 2010 Forms

A generic form listing all North Carolina Masters Swimming Club's Workout Groups

Unattached (UNAT) no club or team affiliation

NOTE: if you are undecided, the LMSC for NC recommends joining the state club (NCMS) instead of registering totally unattached, which will allow you to easily transfer to a NCMS Workout Group in the future without a fee. It will also allow you to compete on Relays both in and out of state with all other team members.

CLUBS

North Carolina Masters Swimming (NCMS) - The large state team, with no affiliation to a specific workout group (chapter).

Workout Groups ( Chapters ) of North Carolina Masters Swimming Club - NCMS club teams called workout groups with the online registration system

Asheville Masters Swimming (AMS) - Asheville, NC

Bowker Aquatic Club (BAC) - Winston-Salem, NC

Burke Unifour Masters Swimming (BUMS) - Valdese, NC

Charlotte SwimMasters (CSM) - Charlotte, NC

Demon Masters(DM) - Wake Forest University

Duke Aquatics, formerly Tar Heel Aquatic Team (DUKE) - Durham, NC

Durham Area Masters Aquatics (DAMA) - Durham, NC

Fireball Masters Swimming (FMS) - Winston Salem, NC

Fort Bragg Masters (FBM) - Fort Bragg Military Base

Gaston Gators Swim Team (GG) - Gastonia, NC

Greensboro Community YMCA Masters (GCYM) - Greensboro, NC

High Point Swim Club (HPSC) - High Point, NC

James J Harris YMCA Masters (HARY) - Charlotte, NC

Jerry Long YMCA Tyde Masters (TYDE) - Clemmons, NC

Swim Lenoir Masters (LENR) - Lenoir, NC

Mecklenburg Aquatic Club Masters (MAC) - Charlotte, NC

North Carolina Aquatic Masters (NCAM) - Chapel Hill, NC at UNC-CH

North Mecklenburg Aquatics Masters (NMAM) - Huntersville, NC

One Step Beyone Cary Masters (OSBC) - Cary, NC

Performance Aquatics by Compass Elite (PACE) - Triad Area, NC

Raleigh Area Masters (RAM) - Raleigh and Cary, NC

Rocky Mount Y Masters (RMYM) - Rocky Mount, NC

Seahawk Aquatic Club Masters (SAC) - Wilmington, NC

Siskey Family YMCA Masters Swim Team (SYMA) - Matthews, NC

Sports Center of Morehead Masters (SCMM) - Morehead City, NC

Stingray Aquatics (SAM) - Matthews, NC

Swim Fanatics Swim Masters (SFSM) - Greensboro, NC

The Lowe's YMCA Masters (TLYM) - Mooresville, NC

Triad Masters Swimming (TMS) - Greensboro, NC

Twin Rivers YMCA Masters (TRYM) - New Bern, NC

Winston-Salem Area Masters (AWSM) - Winston- Salem, NC

YMCA of Rowan Aquatics and Triathlon (YRAT) - Salisbury, NC

YMCA of the Triangle Area (YOTA) - Raleigh, NC

The Adobe Acrobat Reader, a 5 Megabyte program that is free to use is required to view and print the individual team forms. The Adobe Acrobat program is a defacto standard for viewing printed images, and is highly recommended as a tool that each user should have on his personal computer. When used, it will print the document exactly as the designer planned, and the file size that is downloaded is relatively small compared to other types of images. Generally, either Netscape or Internet Explorer will automatically download and then start the Acrobat Reader to display the registration form.

If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, it is a 5MB file that takes awhile to download, but it can be obatined from the Adobe Web Site, (it's Free) More detailed instructions on how to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader can be found on this site by clicking here

If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC and do not want to download the free program, use the browser and text format generic registration form. clicking here. Note that sometimes you may have difficult in printing this form due to the way you have your browser set up for font sizes. Choose a smaller size font if it doesn't print correctly.

If you are already registered with US Masters Swimming for 2010 and wish to transfer from another LMSC to North Carolina, complete the transfer form.

If you are already registered with a workout group of North Carolina Masters Swimming and wish to change to another workout group, please contact me via an email at

Return to Masters Swimming in North Carolina home page.
February 2, 2010
http://www.NCmasters.org/regforms.html