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
Some really good swimmers got shut out, which sucks. Rules should be changed to let faster swimmers get preference next year.
It does suck that people got shut out of a desired event, but I don't view it as a given that faster swimmers should get preference. Maybe, but it is something that should be debated.
Another possibility is to adopt nationals qualifying times (or some variant) and if you don't meet the standard you don't appear on the results, like FINA does at Masters World Championships.
But Riccione proved that that concept isn't foolproof; lots of Italian swimmers entered and then didn't come anywhere close to the QT; they didn't care. One idea I heard in response to that is that if a swimmer doesn't make the QT then the swimmer or hisher club gets charged an extra fee (in addition to the swim not appearing in the results).
Some really good swimmers got shut out, which sucks. Rules should be changed to let faster swimmers get preference next year.
It does suck that people got shut out of a desired event, but I don't view it as a given that faster swimmers should get preference. Maybe, but it is something that should be debated.
Another possibility is to adopt nationals qualifying times (or some variant) and if you don't meet the standard you don't appear on the results, like FINA does at Masters World Championships.
But Riccione proved that that concept isn't foolproof; lots of Italian swimmers entered and then didn't come anywhere close to the QT; they didn't care. One idea I heard in response to that is that if a swimmer doesn't make the QT then the swimmer or hisher club gets charged an extra fee (in addition to the swim not appearing in the results).
