The Pacific Masters Swimming 2002 Short Course Yards Championships will be held at the University of California Santa Cruz April 12, 13, and 14. The postmark deadline is March 30 and must arrive no later than April 3rd.
Santa Cruz is a beautiful scenic town on the California coast just north of Montery and about 70 miles south of San Francisco. There are many reasonably priced hotels near the pool. There are also many unreasonably priced hotels there also.
The meet sheet is at
www.pacificmasters.org/.../02cruzscy.html
There are many Pacific Masters swimmers who are in New Zealand competing at the FINA World Masters Champioships, so it might be the year to sneak a medal.
(It the Championships have less than 700 swimmers entered, it will be considered a small championship) :D
Pacific Masters
(Former center of Masters Racing) :p
I thought we were both looking at SCY meets in the immediate future... not LCM meets.
The New England SCY meet is at Harvard, which (for SCY) has an8-lane competition course and a 6-lane warmup course (which is too shallow for blocks). Couple of corrections on your comparisons. :)
* NEM meet check-in is one hour before the event. There's no absolute cut-off in the morning. Complete rolling check-in. (We find that unless heat sheets are posted 45 minutes +/- before the event, people start getting really anxious about heats and lanes, etc.)
* Maximum events. For NEM SCY, maximum of 10 individual events for the week-end. Friday you can swim 1650 _or_ 1000 and/or 400 IM, and then max of 4 events Saturday and Sunday. This year, you can swim all five relays if you want.
Oh, plus, we have our "ocean" area available for warmup also, which is the 30 yard x 20 yard space between the competition and warmup courses. So we may end up with 6 25-yard lanes and 3-4 30-yard lanes.
Last year, we were able to get it down to about 10 seconds between heats. It takes an on-the-ball person running the timing system, mostly.
There's a new pool being built at a technical school just down the river from Harvard that will be capable of running two 25-yard courses. We're definitely going to be investigating the possibility of running this meet there in the future, to run on two courses. Unfortunately, for LCM, there's no such thing as a facility with two 50-meter courses in the northeast.
-Rick
NEM SCY Champs Operations Director
I thought we were both looking at SCY meets in the immediate future... not LCM meets.
The New England SCY meet is at Harvard, which (for SCY) has an8-lane competition course and a 6-lane warmup course (which is too shallow for blocks). Couple of corrections on your comparisons. :)
* NEM meet check-in is one hour before the event. There's no absolute cut-off in the morning. Complete rolling check-in. (We find that unless heat sheets are posted 45 minutes +/- before the event, people start getting really anxious about heats and lanes, etc.)
* Maximum events. For NEM SCY, maximum of 10 individual events for the week-end. Friday you can swim 1650 _or_ 1000 and/or 400 IM, and then max of 4 events Saturday and Sunday. This year, you can swim all five relays if you want.
Oh, plus, we have our "ocean" area available for warmup also, which is the 30 yard x 20 yard space between the competition and warmup courses. So we may end up with 6 25-yard lanes and 3-4 30-yard lanes.
Last year, we were able to get it down to about 10 seconds between heats. It takes an on-the-ball person running the timing system, mostly.
There's a new pool being built at a technical school just down the river from Harvard that will be capable of running two 25-yard courses. We're definitely going to be investigating the possibility of running this meet there in the future, to run on two courses. Unfortunately, for LCM, there's no such thing as a facility with two 50-meter courses in the northeast.
-Rick
NEM SCY Champs Operations Director
