Colonies Zone SCY Championships - Fairfax VA

My proposal for a possible solution. Because it is a championship meet, everyone entering distance must submit the date and location of the USMS meet where they achieved their entry time. This would eliminate someone from doing their first USMS distance event at this meet. I think this would eliminate some of the entries. However, I'm curious as to what others think. This is not required at Nationals. Are you ok with your suggestion that it be more difficult to enter Zones? As far as implementation, I would think your suggestion would require all distance entries to be via paper and the meet director would have to process them in the order in which they were received. The meet director would have to check meet results to verify the swims qualify and once that entry is verified, it gets ratified and the first xx ratified entries becomes the psych sheet. Is this how you envision the process going? Aside - if the verification meet was the previous weekend and the meet results are not yet available, I guess that is tough luck for the swimmer and they have to hope the results are released before the meet fills up? I guess my point is I agree with your idea in theory but I am not convinced it could be implemented without undue burden on the host. And why should the host care this much about who is swimming in these events to go through all of this? Jeff

My proposal for a possible solution. Because it is a championship meet, everyone entering distance must submit the date and location of the USMS meet where they achieved their entry time. This would eliminate someone from doing their first USMS distance event at this meet. I think this would eliminate some of the entries. However, I'm curious as to what others think. This is not required at Nationals. Are you ok with your suggestion that it be more difficult to enter Zones? As far as implementation, I would think your suggestion would require all distance entries to be via paper and the meet director would have to process them in the order in which they were received. The meet director would have to check meet results to verify the swims qualify and once that entry is verified, it gets ratified and the first xx ratified entries becomes the psych sheet. Is this how you envision the process going? Aside - if the verification meet was the previous weekend and the meet results are not yet available, I guess that is tough luck for the swimmer and they have to hope the results are released before the meet fills up? I guess my point is I agree with your idea in theory but I am not convinced it could be implemented without undue burden on the host. And why should the host care this much about who is swimming in these events to go through all of this? Jeff