To access it you will need to have a USA Swimming website account "linked" to your membership.  Many of you will already have one.  It is the same account that enables you to purchase stuff online and look at swimmers times, etc.  If you don’t have a linked account you can go to the Certification or Officials Tracking section on the officials pages and click on the OTS - Officials User Guide posted there.  The introduction gives instructions on how to create a linked account.  The Guide also gives basic instructions on how to use the OTS.

What will the OTS do for you?

• LSC Officials Chairs can add any and all LSC meets, add officials to those meets and record the sessions worked in various positions for each official.  Meet Referees can also be designated for each meet.
• Meet Referees, once designated for a meet in the OTS, can also add or remove officials and record the sessions and positions worked at meets.  This will allow LSCs to capture and track the meet activity of all officials in the LSC, if they choose to do so.
• LSC Officials Chairs and other designees can add other activities such as clinics, meetings, seminars, training sessions, etc., and record those who participated and their roles.

Please Note: Only officials currently registered as a member of USA Swimming can be included in meets or activities.

• If a meet has been approved as an Officials Qualifying Meet (OQM), evaluators can be added to the meet and they can record evaluations as well as add officials and sessions worked.  Once each evaluation is entered into the OTS, the official will automatically receive an email at the address listed in SWIMS, or attached to their linked account, or as modified in the roster for the meet.
• The LSC Officials Chairs can also generate reports of their officials in several formats using a large number of selection criteria.  OTS doesn’t presently track LSC certifications, but it's planned for the future.
• If your LSC doesn’t use the OTS to record any or all meets and activities, you can create your own records within the OTS.  You can edit or remove your data if the LSC should add it later.
• You can also view your activity history in the OTS, review your OQM evaluations, apply (if eligible) for N2 and N3 certification and re-certification, as well as track the progress of the application review.
• You will also be able to search for meets in your LSC, Region, Zone, or anywhere in the country, by meet type, date ranges, Meet Referee or a number of other criteria.

There will be further versions of the OTS to add more LSC user functionality, however you should find this release to be very useful.
(update coming soon)