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
...Bottom line is that I don't know if it is sufficient to focus only on preventing this from happening again at future SCY zones, I think there has to be some effort at involving FXCM (and triathletes in general) with masters swimming beyond just paying dues and entry fees. And wookiee is right, it isn't just this club that does that.
If you've got creative solutions on how to engage more teams, please do share! It's evident that what's been tried in the last 3.5 years that I've been involved (peripherally, you could argue) hasn't worked to the degree we'd hoped it would. The lengths that the LMSC board has gone to in encouraging new teams to step up and host meets haven't been enough, and I think we're all running out of ideas.
Admittedly, part of the problem in our LMSC is the fact that we're one of the largest by membership, and the smallest by far by geography, which leads to too many people in too few pools, especially when you factor in USA-S and high school teams and meets. We have a team that's tried to get pool time to run a new meet, and it's taken them at least 2.5 years to finally make it onto the tentative pool use schedule in my county. And I'm not even 100% sure they've been able to get definite confirmation on their requested date being available.
I agree that wookiee is right, but only to a point. They're not the only team that does this, but they really are the only one large enough to have this type of impact. They're also the only ones who have been repeatedly asked to run a meet and not even attempted to try (even with access to a wealth of pools in multiple jurisdictions), and the only ones who were asked by their own head coach, after a similar situation a few years ago, to not use the CZ meet as a time trial meet, to turn around and do it again (with the same "assistant" coach leading the charge, mind you).
...Bottom line is that I don't know if it is sufficient to focus only on preventing this from happening again at future SCY zones, I think there has to be some effort at involving FXCM (and triathletes in general) with masters swimming beyond just paying dues and entry fees. And wookiee is right, it isn't just this club that does that.
If you've got creative solutions on how to engage more teams, please do share! It's evident that what's been tried in the last 3.5 years that I've been involved (peripherally, you could argue) hasn't worked to the degree we'd hoped it would. The lengths that the LMSC board has gone to in encouraging new teams to step up and host meets haven't been enough, and I think we're all running out of ideas.
Admittedly, part of the problem in our LMSC is the fact that we're one of the largest by membership, and the smallest by far by geography, which leads to too many people in too few pools, especially when you factor in USA-S and high school teams and meets. We have a team that's tried to get pool time to run a new meet, and it's taken them at least 2.5 years to finally make it onto the tentative pool use schedule in my county. And I'm not even 100% sure they've been able to get definite confirmation on their requested date being available.
I agree that wookiee is right, but only to a point. They're not the only team that does this, but they really are the only one large enough to have this type of impact. They're also the only ones who have been repeatedly asked to run a meet and not even attempted to try (even with access to a wealth of pools in multiple jurisdictions), and the only ones who were asked by their own head coach, after a similar situation a few years ago, to not use the CZ meet as a time trial meet, to turn around and do it again (with the same "assistant" coach leading the charge, mind you).
