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
At the very bottom of
www.pacificmasters.org/.../02cruzscymen.html
Scratches 813 328 485
no shows
Actual Swims 3252 1535 1717
which means that the entries were
entries 4065 1863 2202
There was also a line that says disqualification. I am not sure if that is a deduction from actual swims or not. The total DQs is 41
I just assume that the relays is the net number of relays. Relays are entered the day of the meet up to about 2 hours before the start of the first heat of relays. There were few relay no shows.
The program that tracks the meet, SAMMS, is primarily geared for age group swimming, which is why scratchs and no shows are broken out. A no show is just shown as a scratch.
I just assume that the program has correctly totaled the number of entries and scratchs. I am not going to count the number of entries (well I could take the information from the results then do a line count, but I am feeling lazy).
On Friday the meet opened with the 1650 at 10:20am, the last heat of 1650 finished a little over five hours later around 3:30. On Saturday the first event was the 1000 free, which finished about 1 pm. The 1650 and the 1000 (and all the events) were run on two courses. After the distance events the meet seemed to move very quickly. The 50's took about 20 minutes from the start of the first heat to the end of the fastest heat.
One of the things being considered is the mix the mens and womens 1650, 1000 and 500 and run the entire events by time. This would save a lot of time as you dont have two very slow heats.
We are always looking for ways to run the meet more efficiently. One way is to have dive over starts (idea taken from NEM).
michael
At the very bottom of
www.pacificmasters.org/.../02cruzscymen.html
Scratches 813 328 485
no shows
Actual Swims 3252 1535 1717
which means that the entries were
entries 4065 1863 2202
There was also a line that says disqualification. I am not sure if that is a deduction from actual swims or not. The total DQs is 41
I just assume that the relays is the net number of relays. Relays are entered the day of the meet up to about 2 hours before the start of the first heat of relays. There were few relay no shows.
The program that tracks the meet, SAMMS, is primarily geared for age group swimming, which is why scratchs and no shows are broken out. A no show is just shown as a scratch.
I just assume that the program has correctly totaled the number of entries and scratchs. I am not going to count the number of entries (well I could take the information from the results then do a line count, but I am feeling lazy).
On Friday the meet opened with the 1650 at 10:20am, the last heat of 1650 finished a little over five hours later around 3:30. On Saturday the first event was the 1000 free, which finished about 1 pm. The 1650 and the 1000 (and all the events) were run on two courses. After the distance events the meet seemed to move very quickly. The 50's took about 20 minutes from the start of the first heat to the end of the fastest heat.
One of the things being considered is the mix the mens and womens 1650, 1000 and 500 and run the entire events by time. This would save a lot of time as you dont have two very slow heats.
We are always looking for ways to run the meet more efficiently. One way is to have dive over starts (idea taken from NEM).
michael
