USA Swimming Structure – Part One – Geography

When you pay the annual registration fee, your swimmer becomes a member of USA Swimming … the same USA Swimming that produces the nation’s Olympic swimmers.  It’s a large organization with 400,000+ members.   Most of your $65 fee helps feed this beast.

USA Swimming segments the nation into 59 geographical pieces called LSCs (Local Swim Committees), numbered 2 through 60 ...  I’ve always suspected they reserved number one for USA Swimming itself, but that’s just a guess.  Some of these 59 LSCs follow state borders, just as the Utah LSC follows Utah state lines … Others, not so much.  LSCs can be a state, a portion of one state, or include parts of several states.

Click here for information about every LSC and to view a larger map.

USA Swimming also divides the nation into four “zones”, Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Midwest.   Midwest?  Arkansans probably don’t consider themself “northern”.  The Utah LSC finds itself smack dab in the middle of the Western Zone.

So where does the rest of your registration fee go?  To feed a smaller beast, LSC number 55, the Utah LSC.