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
You raise an interesting point regarding two courses versus one course. Obviously for meets with 2000 participants there isn't a real choice. However for regional championship meets with 600-1000 participants its an interesting question. A few years ago, we did run a NE SCY Championship meet with two 8 lane courses at Brown. We had around 500 participants and the timeline was quite short by local standards. However, I did receive quite a few complaints about how the "meet was run too fast" and that teams complained they couldn't watch their teammates race in the other course.
My question is whether anyone has actually run a regional competition where you run two 8 lane courses for distance events and single 10+ course for non-distance events?
You raise an interesting point regarding two courses versus one course. Obviously for meets with 2000 participants there isn't a real choice. However for regional championship meets with 600-1000 participants its an interesting question. A few years ago, we did run a NE SCY Championship meet with two 8 lane courses at Brown. We had around 500 participants and the timeline was quite short by local standards. However, I did receive quite a few complaints about how the "meet was run too fast" and that teams complained they couldn't watch their teammates race in the other course.
My question is whether anyone has actually run a regional competition where you run two 8 lane courses for distance events and single 10+ course for non-distance events?
