# South Carolina Masters Swimming (SC)

> South Carolina Masters Swimming is the US Masters Swimming LMSC for the state: find a Masters club near you and search 25 years of South Carolina top times.

This is the US Masters Swimming site for the South Carolina LMSC (state), as of 2026-10-27: its member clubs and South Carolina records across every club. For structured data use `GET https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/content` (`section=clubs` for the club list); for swim times use `GET https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/records` (see API below).

## About

- LMSC: South Carolina
- Website: https://sc.swimclubs.org/

**South Carolina Masters Swimming** is the US Masters Swimming Local Masters Swimming Committee (LMSC) for the state. Masters swimming is for adults 18 and over, from fitness swimmers and triathletes to national champions.

Join a club below to swim coached workouts, enter meets and open-water events, and compete for South Carolina at USMS Nationals.

The records below are the fastest swim by a South Carolina Masters swimmer in each event, course, gender and age group for every season since 2000.

## Clubs

- [Columbia Masters](https://columbiamastersswim.org) (COLM) — Columbia
- [Palmetto Masters](https://palm.swimclubs.org/) (PALM) — Mt. Pleasant & North Charleston
- Greenville Splash Masters (GS) — Greenville — Site coming soon
- Grand Strand Masters Swimming (GSMS) — North Myrtle Beach — Site coming soon
- Lowcountry Masters Swimming (LOCO) — Beaufort — Site coming soon
- Sun City Hilton Head Masters (SCHH) — Bluffton — Site coming soon
- SMRT (SMRT) — Site coming soon
- UP (UP) — Site coming soon
- South Carolina State Team (SCC) — Combined team for USMS Nationals

To see the state-leading swims by one club's members, filter the records with `team=<code>`, e.g. [https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/records?team=COLM&best=true](https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/records?team=COLM&best=true). These are only swims that were the fastest in South Carolina that season; a club's full records are on its own site (`/api/records` there).

## Links

- [USMS](https://www.usms.org/)

## API

- [OpenAPI spec](https://sc.swimclubs.org/openapi.json): machine-readable description of both endpoints below.
- [Club content](https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/content): `GET /api/content` returns this page's information as JSON `{club, alert, about, scheduleNote, schedule, events, board, faq, coaches, clubs, asOf, source}`. Optional `section` (club, alert, about, schedule, events, board, faq, coaches, clubs) returns just that part, e.g. [https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/content?section=schedule](https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/content?section=schedule). `format=md` returns this markdown. Events are only those that haven't ended; dates are YYYY-MM-DD.
- [Records query](https://sc.swimclubs.org/api/records?event=50+free&course=scy&gender=women&best=true): `GET /api/records` returns matching South Carolina top times (each row is the fastest South Carolina swim that season; `team` is the swimmer's club) as JSON `{team, query, total, count, records}` — prefer it to downloading the full file. Parameters (all optional): `team` (club code, e.g. COLM), `event` (distance and/or stroke, e.g. "50 free", "200 IM", "backstroke"), `course` (scy/scm/lcm), `gender` (men/women), `ageGroup` (e.g. 40-44) or `age` (e.g. 42), `year`, `swimmer` and `meet` (name substrings), `best=true` (only the fastest matching swim per event/course/gender/age group — the state record when no year is given; otherwise one row per season), `limit` (default 100, max 1000). Bad parameters return 400 with details.

## Data files

- [Data index](https://sc.swimclubs.org/data/index.json): datasets, schemas and download URLs
- [All South Carolina records](https://sc.swimclubs.org/data/SC_all_records.json): each season's fastest South Carolina swim across SCY/SCM/LCM, events, genders and age groups
- [Site manifest](https://sc.swimclubs.org/data/site.json): club details, page list and the last saved copy of the Sheet content

## Pages

- [Home](https://sc.swimclubs.org/): About South Carolina Masters Swimming, its clubs, and searchable South Carolina records
- [Sitemap](https://sc.swimclubs.org/sitemap.xml)