Since it is the LMSC that benefits directly from new registrations, the thing to do would be to lobby the LMSC to cut the registration fee for newbie registrants. Or lobby the Clubs that the newbies are swimming with (and, ostensibly, paying dues to) to subsidize the newbies' meet participation. Meet directors already have enough financial pressure on them to be giving away money in the name of recruiting for the LMSC.
Since it is the LMSC that benefits directly from new registrations, the thing to do would be to lobby the LMSC to cut the registration fee for newbie registrants. Or lobby the Clubs that the newbies are swimming with (and, ostensibly, paying dues to) to subsidize the newbies' meet participation. Meet directors already have enough financial pressure on them to be giving away money in the name of recruiting for the LMSC.