United States Aquatic Sports
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Sport | FINA |
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President | Bill Smith |
Vice president(s) | Jim Sheehan Kathy Dacey |
Secretary | Laurette Longmire |
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United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) is the national federation for aquatic sports which represents the United States in
United States Aquatic Sports plays a very minor role in representation, and while USAS is the titular member federation, the NGBs play de facto roles in making decisions about participation in international competition and hosting. Ostensibly, USAS will "sign off" on the selections of an NGB's delegation to an international competition (whether hosted by the
USAS hosts an annual convention where the five NGBs meet, as well; currently this meeting also includes the annual conventions for all but water polo--who is in-season at the time, and instead holds its annual convention at another time of the year. The reasoning behind this is to allow the NGBs to save money on their national conventions and to allow collaboration between the NGBs on common issues of interest. USAS meetings are also held at the time.
United States Aquatic Sports Convention locations
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Notes
- ^ The 2001 USAS Convention was to fully begin on Wednesday, September 12, 2001; however, due to the September 11 attacks and subsequent plane groundings, only about a quarter of all registered delegates arrived in Dearborn for the convention. The Masters group rescheduled their meetings and held it in Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks later; however, the other NGBs simply postponed most items until the next year.
External links
- United States Aquatic Sports official website
- USA Water Polo official website