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 good Michael that you are gettting asian parents involved. But as you stated hispanic are less in the sport. I went to the short course meters in Arizona last October and for a state that has 25 percent hispanic about 2 pecent of the master swimmers were hispanic. Also, SPMA which has a much higher hispanic population is effective more by immirgation which it comes to swimming. Hispanics are less involved than asian children and adults. This doesn't only effect swimming. Figure Skating the most expensive sport there has a high number of top level asian skaters in Southern Callifornia. On the other hand, hispanics which in LA make up about 46 percent of the population and 32 percent of the population of Orange County are less representive in the sport. Hispanics because of income and cultural taste are not as likely to do other sports like swimming or figure skating and even diving-a sport that the Mexican country is really good at than asians. Blacks have been underrepresentive in both children and adult swimming for some time. And in places like Arizona and Orange County California blacks make up a small number of the population. I don't feel that 10,000 is a small number I'm just saying you are in an area with a large population. Both SPMA and Metropolian with populations over 14 million are a lot more underrepresentive in masters swimming.
That's good Michael that you are gettting asian parents involved. But as you stated hispanic are less in the sport. I went to the short course meters in Arizona last October and for a state that has 25 percent hispanic about 2 pecent of the master swimmers were hispanic. Also, SPMA which has a much higher hispanic population is effective more by immirgation which it comes to swimming. Hispanics are less involved than asian children and adults. This doesn't only effect swimming. Figure Skating the most expensive sport there has a high number of top level asian skaters in Southern Callifornia. On the other hand, hispanics which in LA make up about 46 percent of the population and 32 percent of the population of Orange County are less representive in the sport. Hispanics because of income and cultural taste are not as likely to do other sports like swimming or figure skating and even diving-a sport that the Mexican country is really good at than asians. Blacks have been underrepresentive in both children and adult swimming for some time. And in places like Arizona and Orange County California blacks make up a small number of the population. I don't feel that 10,000 is a small number I'm just saying you are in an area with a large population. Both SPMA and Metropolian with populations over 14 million are a lot more underrepresentive in masters swimming.
