Springtime means short-course championship season for 68 LMSC members! Cheer on your teammates in the Colonies Zone SCY Championship and the USMS Spring National Championship.
Championship meets are an excellent way to motivate yourself in training and to interact with people that you don’t normally see. Three SCY championship meets always seem to get plenty of interest from LMSC members.
Results for the 3000/6000 Postal National Championships have been finalized. There were 19 swimmers from our LMSC who participated in at least one of the postal events, including four stalwarts who did both events.
It isn’t too early to start planning for the 2013 USMS Spring National Championship, which will be held in one of the most famous swimming facilities in the country, the Indiana University Natatorium.
Results are now available for the USMS 1-Mile Open Water Swim National Championship that was held in beautiful Lake Lure, NC on Aug 25. This event was part of the larger Lake Lure Olympiad Sport Festival, and about 180 swimmers took part in the championship race.
Recently USMS has awarded bids received for four national championships.
Results from the 2012 USMS Summer Nationals are now available. A small contingent of 10 LMSC swimmers swam at the pool in Omaha that had just been used for the US Olympic Trials.
A handful of swimmers are representing our LMSC in some far-flung locations, at the 14th FINA World Masters Championships (Riccione, Italy) and the USMS Summer National Championship (Omaha, NE, at the Olympic Trials pool).
Official results of the 2012 USMS Spring (SCY) National Championship are now available. There were 105 LMSC members entered in the meet and they did some fast swimming!
The 2012 USMS Spring National Championship is now underway! You can look at the real-time results to keep tabs on your friends and teammates, but you can also view the action as it happens via live stream.
The 2011-12 Short-Course Yards season ends on June 1, but not before some fast championship meets: Colonies Zone SCY Championship and USMS Spring Nationals. We have 137 members competing in one or both of these meets: wish them luck!
Entries for the 2012 Marriott USMS Summer National Championships, to be held July 5-8 in Omaha, NE, are now available! You can register online or by mail. The entry deadline is May 31.