Online entries for the Colonies Zone SCY Championships opened today. The meet will be April 19-21, 2013 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Entry Form, Timeline and Team Roster are available at:
www.patriotmasters.org/ColoniesZone2013.htm
Team Z is in fact a triathlon team, Jim. I have a friend on Team Z and know that they were told to sign up ASAP to grab the slots.
While first come first served seems like a superficially appealing policy, Zones is supposed to be a championship meet for the east coast. Team Z effectively subverted that intent and turned it into their personal distance meet.
The problem is how to fix the situation without overburdening the meet director. One easy thing to do would be to ban Friday only entries. Though I guess someone could be a d*ck and enter events on other days that they had no intent to swim. Perhaps the Team Z coach could be prevailed upon to ensure this doesn't happen. That way, if Team Z really wants to swim "Zones," they can swim some other events over the weekend. A lottery?
Team Z is in fact a triathlon team, Jim. I have a friend on Team Z and know that they were told to sign up ASAP to grab the slots.
While first come first served seems like a superficially appealing policy, Zones is supposed to be a championship meet for the east coast. Team Z effectively subverted that intent and turned it into their personal distance meet.
The problem is how to fix the situation without overburdening the meet director. One easy thing to do would be to ban Friday only entries. Though I guess someone could be a d*ck and enter events on other days that they had no intent to swim. Perhaps the Team Z coach could be prevailed upon to ensure this doesn't happen. That way, if Team Z really wants to swim "Zones," they can swim some other events over the weekend. A lottery?
