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
One other thing that could make things _very_ interesting is to run the meets on a concurrent week-end, with the same format. Hy-Tek allows for running one meet in two different pools... which is easily extended to running one meet in two different facilties, I think. To be really neat, we could set things up so that the west coast meet ran 8am-3pm and the east coast meet ran 11am-6pm so that the events were happening at nearly the same time. With a little bit of Internet wizardry, we could have combined results posted at both facilities as soon as the last heat was finished in either time zone.
-Rick
One other thing that could make things _very_ interesting is to run the meets on a concurrent week-end, with the same format. Hy-Tek allows for running one meet in two different pools... which is easily extended to running one meet in two different facilties, I think. To be really neat, we could set things up so that the west coast meet ran 8am-3pm and the east coast meet ran 11am-6pm so that the events were happening at nearly the same time. With a little bit of Internet wizardry, we could have combined results posted at both facilities as soon as the last heat was finished in either time zone.
-Rick