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
Michael:
First, congratulations on a successful meet. Bet everyone involved in happy its over.
Second, dive-over-starting works real well--especially the second year. People that complained the first time around really like the way it works. They find it easy to anticipate the flow of events and we didn't have problems with no shows.
Third, in fairness, you were one of the people that convinced me that positive check-in can work. (Ed Gendreau was the first to try it in New England).
Fourth, great to see that you using this forum for post-meet summaries. I think it vitally important to improve meet promotion.
Lastly, why don't you send us your .CL2 file and we'll score Pacific Masters meet versus NE meet just for the fun of it? We've had this friendly bantering about the "largest" meet (I think we might judged just about even in terms of splashes/relays).
I have an idea that this might be an interesting way to promote regional meets (see USMS long-term planning) and might also give us a way to be more aware of what's happening across the country. I know that NEMs will come out in even bigger numbers if they have a chance to eventually "defeat" Pacific Masters in a "electronic" super-regional competition (shades of mythical HS championship?).
Michael:
First, congratulations on a successful meet. Bet everyone involved in happy its over.
Second, dive-over-starting works real well--especially the second year. People that complained the first time around really like the way it works. They find it easy to anticipate the flow of events and we didn't have problems with no shows.
Third, in fairness, you were one of the people that convinced me that positive check-in can work. (Ed Gendreau was the first to try it in New England).
Fourth, great to see that you using this forum for post-meet summaries. I think it vitally important to improve meet promotion.
Lastly, why don't you send us your .CL2 file and we'll score Pacific Masters meet versus NE meet just for the fun of it? We've had this friendly bantering about the "largest" meet (I think we might judged just about even in terms of splashes/relays).
I have an idea that this might be an interesting way to promote regional meets (see USMS long-term planning) and might also give us a way to be more aware of what's happening across the country. I know that NEMs will come out in even bigger numbers if they have a chance to eventually "defeat" Pacific Masters in a "electronic" super-regional competition (shades of mythical HS championship?).
