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
For Bob,
To answer your question ("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?"), we just held the NW Zone Championship meet at the Federal Way/King County Aquatic Center. When we hold our Zone/LMSC champs there, we typically have 250-300 swimmers (278 this year) and hold all of our events in one course except we use both courses for 500s and above.
For the most part, that works well for us. This year, we started off with the 1000 (Sat.) and the 500 (Sun.) and were ready for the next events after about an hour. The flip side is that it doubles your volunteer requirements. When we tried to hold the 1650 at the end of the meet, we needed to ask for volunteer timers just so that we could save a half-hour (we scratched down to three heats total).
I liked your story about the Brown meet. I'll admit that I don't run my timeline as "efficiently" as I possibly could for a regional meet because doing so makes the meet run "too fast", but I'll only do that here. In Boston and Santa Cruz and at Nationals, you have to be max-efficient or else you'll have very long days.
For Bob,
To answer your question ("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?"), we just held the NW Zone Championship meet at the Federal Way/King County Aquatic Center. When we hold our Zone/LMSC champs there, we typically have 250-300 swimmers (278 this year) and hold all of our events in one course except we use both courses for 500s and above.
For the most part, that works well for us. This year, we started off with the 1000 (Sat.) and the 500 (Sun.) and were ready for the next events after about an hour. The flip side is that it doubles your volunteer requirements. When we tried to hold the 1650 at the end of the meet, we needed to ask for volunteer timers just so that we could save a half-hour (we scratched down to three heats total).
I liked your story about the Brown meet. I'll admit that I don't run my timeline as "efficiently" as I possibly could for a regional meet because doing so makes the meet run "too fast", but I'll only do that here. In Boston and Santa Cruz and at Nationals, you have to be max-efficient or else you'll have very long days.
