Some swimmers who don’t swim with a club will swim unattached. They have a parent who got certified as a coach or have a coach who agreed to supervise them at meets. I think the only limitation is that they can’t be on a relay, but otherwise they can swim at any open meet or LSC championships as long as they have a USA swimming membership.

You are also required to have coach supervision during a meet, so some swimmers with smaller clubs register for some meets as unattached as their coach is not at a given meet. They are then under the responsibility of a coach from another club.

You are listed as unattached for several months when you switch clubs. If they switched often enough this could cause it. Also you don’t have to actually be registered with a club to be registered with USA Swimming. You can hire your own coach and train independently. Michael Andrew was (is?) famously unattached. Swimmers living overseas with the military also have a way to register as unattached and have their times submitted to SWIMS so they can come back to the U.S. and compete in the larger meets.

Anonymous wrote:Were they swimming those years?

Yes. And are in USA swimming as unattached making PVS champs etc. for at least three years in a row.

Will some clubs be okay with that? And it appears three different clubs.

Or can the club remove its name after the fact?

Were they swimming those years?

So a swimmer joins club and gets a new USA swimming number. They state they were with club B for years.

On swimcloud it shows club B, club C and Club D. But when looking up they are unaffiliated with any club and showing up as unattached for at least the past three years.

Is this a product of the new usa swimming number? What club or in this case multiple clubs allow a swimmer to swim unattached (I know ours will not).

Explain why would this be the case. I have never seen or heard of it before.