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United States Masters Swimming (USMS) is an organization of sportswomen and sportsmen founded in 1970 and dedicated to the premise that the lives of participants will be enhanced through aquatic physical conditioning. USMS supports and encourages competitions among its members and those of other nations. Additional information is available from the USMS Home Page. This web site presents information from the USMS Archives.
People: One of the best ways to learn about Masters swimming is to read about Top USMS Swimmers and follow the links to their teams (clubs), age groups, backgrounds and friends. To get in contact with someone, try How To Find or Learn More About USMS People. Also see stories and photos of prominent people in USMS, USMS History, the beginning of our Oral History, and the Top Ten Photo Gallery. Or type their name in the box and click "Find".
Top Ten: it presents the national
rankings of USMS swimmers and a tabulation of everyone who has ever been named a USMS
All-American or
All-Star.
Swim Clubs: it presents web pages for some of the best Swim Clubs in USMS. These club pages now include all Top Ten swimmers we've identified as well as all All-Americans.
USMS History: fifty people have helped over two years to produce The USMS History Project .
Miscellaneous: "Swimming Esthetics" , "The Mucky Duck" , Places to Purchase Swim Products, -- Other Swimming Web Sites of Special Interest, -- Sports/Energy/Nutrition Commercial Web Sites , and Instructions for LMSC Webmasters.
Thank you....
This web site is maintained by
Carl House
and the USMS
Top Ten Committee .
Dorothy Donnelly
deserves special thanks for her help in creating the Top Ten by LMSC
and for writing several stories.
Swim Magazine
has graciously given permission for reproduction of their stories and photos.
Meegan Wilson
created our graphics, and she and
Vicki Stewart
have scanned Swim Magazines stories and photos to make it possible to
put them up in our "#1 Swimmers" web pages.
Esther Lyman
,
Ceil Blackwell
,
Tomi Richards and
Meg Smath
have taken it upon themselves to see that their LMSC's are well represented.
Others have submitted stories and photos either for themselves or for their friends who are All-Americans.
George Olsen of Ft. Lauderdale,
photographer for major events at the International Swimming Hall of Fame,
has generously contributed many photos.
Ellen Anderson of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and
Joyce Winter of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin,
have graciously given us permission to use their artwork.
Thanks to all who are helping.
