Hi Jason,


A current USMS card is bacially the only requirement for all
sanctioned swim meets in Michigan. If you looking for a swim
training group several of our members train out of the Farmington Y,
check out the Masters bulletin board on the south wall of the pool.
We also have several members who swim at the Livonia Y if you would
like to join in on some of their swims. FAST has a $5 pay at the door
policy for our swims at Schoolcraft which wil resume in September. I
also swim with LALA during the school year and it is a pretty good
deal if you are interested in evening swims (breaks down to about
$2.25 per swim).

If you need more information you can e-mail me directly at
swim@....

Karen



--- In fordathleticswimtriathlon@yahoogroups.com, jasonweida
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Anyone with experience in masters swimming here in the Detroit area
> care to lend me some advice? I'd like to get involved in masters
> swimming. I'm trying to figure out exactly what I need to do in
order
> to participate in a few masters swim meets. The websites I've
visited
> have confused me. What's the minimum I need to do in order to be
> eligible to swim in masters meets? Just a USMS membership? I'd
love
> to join a training group like FAST too, but it seems I would need to
> join a second gym in order to swim regularly. I'm already a member
at
> the Farmington Hills YMCA and swim/run there on my lunch breaks to
> train for XTERRA tri's, so I'd like to avoid joining a second gym.
I
> live in the Plymouth/Canton area and had my eye on the LALA group,
but
> it's around $50/session. All this isn't much on it's own, but the
> sports budget is already pretty strained trying to keep up with
> clothing, equipment, race entry fees, etc. I don't want to join a
> bunch of unnecessary clubs just to swim a few meets, but maybe
that's
> how it works...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> weida
>