And with the facilities that are out there, it's not that expensive. Indeed, joining Central Illinois Masters is relatively cheap. They compensate Zurick and IWU with time more than money. We work at their swim meets. But most of them wind up working most of the meets.
Members relish swimming in meets as well.
Zurick said the Masters competition season runs roughly from January through the national meet in May. Swimmers enter as many meets as they'd like. Some compete every other weekend, some swim only in the state meet, and others use the program to train for triathlons, etc. I got excited about the meets again. Similarly, Stonesifer joined in 1992, giving her a chance to swim competitively for the first time since her college days at Wisconsin-Whitewater.