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
Michael:
I took the 3,400 individual splashes from the pre-meet entries and added in the relays and that's how we come to the larger total. I didn't take into account scratches so perhaps you right. Pacific Masters was larger. Oh well. Still the question is Michael why don't you get more people to come to championship meets? I'm not suggesting that NEM would draw the same relative meet participation with 10,000 members (how many 50 meter pools would need to handle 5,000 swimmers?) but I do wonder why more people don't race in your area (and also in other larger LMSC such as Southern Pacific or Potomoc Valley).
The growth figures you cite are for the NE-LMSC. That includes Maine Masters a group that has not been growing like NEM. Our NEM growth rate is considerably higher than 6% (I don't have the number for last year). Of course you realize that the comments regarding passing Pacific Masters was "tongue in cheek." Our only stated long term goal is to pass NE-Swimming (currently around 6,000).
Nothing like a good contest. I've challenged our NEM Executive Committee to growth NEM at twice the annual growth rate of Pacific Masters. Sound like we need to hit 17% this year. I'll get the official 2002 NEM numbers and we'll give you an update on our progress later this year.
Cheers
Michael:
I took the 3,400 individual splashes from the pre-meet entries and added in the relays and that's how we come to the larger total. I didn't take into account scratches so perhaps you right. Pacific Masters was larger. Oh well. Still the question is Michael why don't you get more people to come to championship meets? I'm not suggesting that NEM would draw the same relative meet participation with 10,000 members (how many 50 meter pools would need to handle 5,000 swimmers?) but I do wonder why more people don't race in your area (and also in other larger LMSC such as Southern Pacific or Potomoc Valley).
The growth figures you cite are for the NE-LMSC. That includes Maine Masters a group that has not been growing like NEM. Our NEM growth rate is considerably higher than 6% (I don't have the number for last year). Of course you realize that the comments regarding passing Pacific Masters was "tongue in cheek." Our only stated long term goal is to pass NE-Swimming (currently around 6,000).
Nothing like a good contest. I've challenged our NEM Executive Committee to growth NEM at twice the annual growth rate of Pacific Masters. Sound like we need to hit 17% this year. I'll get the official 2002 NEM numbers and we'll give you an update on our progress later this year.
Cheers
