RUSA Membership and PBP

John Lee Ellis, from RUSA-HQ writes: "...PBP aspirants will be registering directly online with the ACP.  RUSA will have no intermediary role as in past years.  Members can easily obtain their certificate numbers for their applications on our website as a benefit of membership.  Non-members must wait for their cards to be returned to them by the organizer.  (The exception is foreign riders, for whom we provide their numbers as a courtesy.)

Please convey this to your riders who are aiming for PBP.  It is in their interest and yours (to avoid extra hassle) that they be a RUSA member, starting with their first qualifier.  The same holds true for US 1200k's, of course, at least those requiring qualifiers in 2011.