The 2003 New England Short Course Yard Championship (NE-LMSC Sanction 034-003-SSCY) will be held on Saturday March 22nd (1000 and 1650 only) and Friday March 28th through Sunday March 30th (all other events) at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, MA.
Last year, this was the largest regional SCY championship meet in the US. We will again benefit from the meet management services of www.swimindex.com featuring live scoreboard, webcam, real time results, etc. Some 40+ NEM workout groups will be competing for the title of 2003 NEM Grand Champion and we expect 700+ athletes, 4,000+ individual splashes and 300+ relays this year. Additionally, a number of non-NEM, USMS clubs will be sending large contingent of swimmers in an attempt to win the "foreign" swim club awards.
A meet information sheet and entry form will be posted before the end of January at: www.swimnem.org
Bob Seltzer
Meet Director
seltzer@metasoft.com
That's based on total splashes including relays. When you add in our relays we were larger than Pacific Masters.
I went back to the SCY meet results, Pacific Masters had 3252 Actual swims of those swims 314 were relays.
According to the Rick Osterberg in thread Pacific SCY Championships NEM had
3166 splashes of which 326 relays.
Pacific beating NEM by 86 splashes. Now if you are counting bodies hitting the water, therefore counting a relays as four splashes, NEM would narrow the gap by 36 (3 extra swimmers x 12 - the difference in relays). Pacific would beat NEM 50 splashes.
Now it could be that NEM will have more splashes that Pacific in the 2003 SCY championships. NEM allows swimmers over the course of the three day meet to swim 12 individual events and 5 relays (or is it now 4 relays). Pacific allows swimmers to swim 7 individual events and 5 relays. A NEM swimmer who wants to get the maximum number of splashes will swim at least 33% more events that the Pacific swimmer.
There are slightly more NEM relays per number of swimmers. I would look upon that as the result of the pressure to compete for the "workout group." (A good thing as most have fun.). In Pacific we have workout groups only we call them teams - a limiting factor to relays about relays is that a group of swimmers from small teams cannot join together to form a relay. (IMHO a NEM workout group is really a team - the workout groups have different price structures according to the NEM web site. I guess (and it is only a guess) is that there is no supervision of the workout group coaches by a general coach.
-though at our current growth rate our people at MIT predict we'll pass you in membership before the 2012 Olympics.
At the end of 2002 NEM had 1739 swimmers a gain of 6.1% over their 2001 ending total of 1639 - a 6.1 % gain. Pacific at the end of 2002 had 10076 members a gain of 4.1% over their ending 2001 total of 9684. Pacific had 8637 more swimmers than NEM. If we projected that out to 2002 at current growth rates at the end of 2012, NEM would have 3114 swimmers and Pacific would have 15058 or almost 12000 more swimmers.
What this means for NEM
I have challenged our Pacific Masters board to have a net increase of swimmers equal to 1/2 the number of registered NEM swimmers or about 870 swimmers. Catch us if you can.
michael
That's based on total splashes including relays. When you add in our relays we were larger than Pacific Masters.
I went back to the SCY meet results, Pacific Masters had 3252 Actual swims of those swims 314 were relays.
According to the Rick Osterberg in thread Pacific SCY Championships NEM had
3166 splashes of which 326 relays.
Pacific beating NEM by 86 splashes. Now if you are counting bodies hitting the water, therefore counting a relays as four splashes, NEM would narrow the gap by 36 (3 extra swimmers x 12 - the difference in relays). Pacific would beat NEM 50 splashes.
Now it could be that NEM will have more splashes that Pacific in the 2003 SCY championships. NEM allows swimmers over the course of the three day meet to swim 12 individual events and 5 relays (or is it now 4 relays). Pacific allows swimmers to swim 7 individual events and 5 relays. A NEM swimmer who wants to get the maximum number of splashes will swim at least 33% more events that the Pacific swimmer.
There are slightly more NEM relays per number of swimmers. I would look upon that as the result of the pressure to compete for the "workout group." (A good thing as most have fun.). In Pacific we have workout groups only we call them teams - a limiting factor to relays about relays is that a group of swimmers from small teams cannot join together to form a relay. (IMHO a NEM workout group is really a team - the workout groups have different price structures according to the NEM web site. I guess (and it is only a guess) is that there is no supervision of the workout group coaches by a general coach.
-though at our current growth rate our people at MIT predict we'll pass you in membership before the 2012 Olympics.
At the end of 2002 NEM had 1739 swimmers a gain of 6.1% over their 2001 ending total of 1639 - a 6.1 % gain. Pacific at the end of 2002 had 10076 members a gain of 4.1% over their ending 2001 total of 9684. Pacific had 8637 more swimmers than NEM. If we projected that out to 2002 at current growth rates at the end of 2012, NEM would have 3114 swimmers and Pacific would have 15058 or almost 12000 more swimmers.
What this means for NEM
I have challenged our Pacific Masters board to have a net increase of swimmers equal to 1/2 the number of registered NEM swimmers or about 870 swimmers. Catch us if you can.
michael
