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:
What kind of text output can you generate on your end?
I've talked to some other "regional" championship meet directors about submitting results in a common format for purposes of "scoring" and also for compiling certain performance lists. The objective is to look at developing some new "marketing" material to further build interest in such meets.
Based on the meet feedback we received from the 2002 Championships it's pretty obvious that next year's meet will be bigger (700+). We have a few options. We can use some additional lanes in the "shallow" end of the 50 meter course. Another option is to use another 50 meter pool in the area. We might then run 2 8-9 lane courses for distance event and 1 10 lane course for all other events.
Meet participants appreciate shorter timelines. (I was especially glad to be at Zones with two 8 lane courses and 420 participants. We finished before 1:00 pm on both days). At the same time, we get complaints regarding two courses of competition. People feel that we lose some of the "high enery meet ambiance" when running two courses. Perhaps a two course set-up for distance and 10 lane course for other distances will work for meet up to 800 participants.
Bob
PS: Yes, the NEM male 50-54 age group was very competitive this year much to my regret.
Michael:
What kind of text output can you generate on your end?
I've talked to some other "regional" championship meet directors about submitting results in a common format for purposes of "scoring" and also for compiling certain performance lists. The objective is to look at developing some new "marketing" material to further build interest in such meets.
Based on the meet feedback we received from the 2002 Championships it's pretty obvious that next year's meet will be bigger (700+). We have a few options. We can use some additional lanes in the "shallow" end of the 50 meter course. Another option is to use another 50 meter pool in the area. We might then run 2 8-9 lane courses for distance event and 1 10 lane course for all other events.
Meet participants appreciate shorter timelines. (I was especially glad to be at Zones with two 8 lane courses and 420 participants. We finished before 1:00 pm on both days). At the same time, we get complaints regarding two courses of competition. People feel that we lose some of the "high enery meet ambiance" when running two courses. Perhaps a two course set-up for distance and 10 lane course for other distances will work for meet up to 800 participants.
Bob
PS: Yes, the NEM male 50-54 age group was very competitive this year much to my regret.
