Colonies Zone SCY Championships - Fairfax VA

Are there any purely USMS swimmers JUST racing Friday night? Are there any purely USMS swimmers for whom this is their first meet? If the answer is yes to these questions, then the playing field is equal. Equal playing field? Did you read the posts above? The issue is that the 1000/1650 spots are LIMITED. If they were not limited, I would say come one and come all, for sure. Conversely, the events on Saturday and Sunday are wide open with NO limits. Moreover, the pool swimmers competing only one day is likely a miniscule %; this is an important meet for us. So, it's not a comparable or equal situation in any way. This is not like a running event -- there are limited pools, limited pool time, limited spots for those of us who only do one sport. FYI, here are Team Z's stat as researched by Jack: (FXCM is not all triathletes) interesting info i gleaned from friday nites fxcm entries. of the 104 fxcm masters ... 91 are only swimming friday nite, 77 of the 104 have no recorded time in the usms database, another 11 have 1 recorded swim, 7 of which are 3 years or older. Do you think it's right that Team Z grabbed all the spots and that no pool swimmers can compete in their east coast championships meet? (I concede that all rules were followed.) Do you think you should be able to do this every year? Do you think having QTs like Boston would be unreasonable for a champs meet? Do you think Team Z could actually host a distance meet itself instead of hijacking ours? Do you think it might be beneficial for masters swimming in general if you swam other events on Sat & Sunday? Can you not understand our POV? -- we love to have you come to meets and will cheer for you, but it is different to selfishly coopt an important champs meet and thereby exclude us from participating. Couldn't you have gone to the local UMBC distance meet? Nothing can be done about it at this point, but I hope the policy is changed going forward to accommodate both groups of swimmers, not just time trialing Team Z. Now as a sprinter swimming unpopular events, I am exiting the discussion!

Are there any purely USMS swimmers JUST racing Friday night? Are there any purely USMS swimmers for whom this is their first meet? If the answer is yes to these questions, then the playing field is equal. Equal playing field? Did you read the posts above? The issue is that the 1000/1650 spots are LIMITED. If they were not limited, I would say come one and come all, for sure. Conversely, the events on Saturday and Sunday are wide open with NO limits. Moreover, the pool swimmers competing only one day is likely a miniscule %; this is an important meet for us. So, it's not a comparable or equal situation in any way. This is not like a running event -- there are limited pools, limited pool time, limited spots for those of us who only do one sport. FYI, here are Team Z's stat as researched by Jack: (FXCM is not all triathletes) interesting info i gleaned from friday nites fxcm entries. of the 104 fxcm masters ... 91 are only swimming friday nite, 77 of the 104 have no recorded time in the usms database, another 11 have 1 recorded swim, 7 of which are 3 years or older. Do you think it's right that Team Z grabbed all the spots and that no pool swimmers can compete in their east coast championships meet? (I concede that all rules were followed.) Do you think you should be able to do this every year? Do you think having QTs like Boston would be unreasonable for a champs meet? Do you think Team Z could actually host a distance meet itself instead of hijacking ours? Do you think it might be beneficial for masters swimming in general if you swam other events on Sat & Sunday? Can you not understand our POV? -- we love to have you come to meets and will cheer for you, but it is different to selfishly coopt an important champs meet and thereby exclude us from participating. Couldn't you have gone to the local UMBC distance meet? Nothing can be done about it at this point, but I hope the policy is changed going forward to accommodate both groups of swimmers, not just time trialing Team Z. Now as a sprinter swimming unpopular events, I am exiting the discussion!