We recommend an excellent resource for ALL parents, created by Your Sports Resource. Read Excel at Being a Swim Parent HERE.
USA Swimming Registration Help for Parents - new SWIMS platform
Points to remember:
- If you, the parent, have never been a USA Swimming registered coach, offiicial, board member, chaperone, or a USA Swimming registered athlete (swimmer) YOURSELF - you want to create a login as a New Member
- After you create a login and have an account in SWIMS as a parent you will be able to connect your swimmers to your account
- You are NOT registering yourself as a USA Swimming member unless required (i.e. you are a coach, official, board member, etc)
- If you HAVE in the past been a USA Swimming registered non-athlete member (categories above) OR a former athlete you will answer the question, "Have you ever had a USA Swimming membership?" with a YES
How to create a login and set up a SWIMS account as a new member: CLICK HERE
How to create a login and set up a SWIMS account for current or previous USA Swimming members: CLICK HERE This is for YOU, returning coaches, officials and board members.
HERE is a webpage with additional help and answers to common questions.
USA Swimming OMR (Online Member Registration) Help for Parents
Resources and instructional videos are available HERE
2022-2023 TIDE WELCOME BOOKLET FOR NEW PARENTS HERE
2022-23 Parent Meetings - Powerpoint and Zoom recording Archive
August 25, 2022: Developmental and Age Group Parent overview. Meeting recording
September 10, 2022: General Parent Meeting
Our Team Unify website houses all of the important functions necessary to navigate your way through the admin side of being a swim parent. It stores member account information (contact and payment information), swimmer times, meet schedule and meet signup, job signup to earn service hours, team records, and other important team information.
Once you learn your way around the site, performing the various tasks will become second nature. To get you started, here are some helpful tutorials that explain many of the website functions.
First, start with the video tutorials Parents: Video tutorials
