Has the Championship Committee, or other entity within USMS ever discussed having a more strict policy of enforcement in regards to the NQT's?
Why do we state that you must have 3 cuts, in order to swim more events? Why not require a swimmer to have 6 cuts in order to swim 6 events?
Just like to understand more from a historical point of view. I have read post that asked, or suggested how to control the size and length of the National meets. Would not having a stricter enforcement of this policy help? Or would it cause swimmers to shy away from these meets?
Just a curious thought.
Thank you.
You could beat me in freestyle even when I was at my peak. I was not a freestyler. My best 100 yard free was at 1:03.8 and 5:58.0 in 500 yard freestyle as a teenager. Now in breastroke I swam a 1:16.1, the next best time was 1:16.8. My Masters time was a lot slower at 1:34.58. I don't workout as many yardages as you do as an adult. All those yardage as a kid built me up to swim fairly good up to the age of 20 years but I didn't even start working again at least an hour 3 to 4 times a week until last June. I also workout on my own, so I don't have a group to pace with. However, sometimes at lap swimming, I find someone near my speed. I was just saying is that I'm not the most natural swimmer and some age groupers that were A and B swimmers like myself can be beated by some master swimmers that started as adults. Your age group is very competitive even more so than the women in the 40 to44 because colleges recruited every male swimmer at least pre-national level to swim for them back in the late 1970s thru the mid 1980's. Women college programs in the 1970s' and early 1980's were behind the men's programs. They were still alot more men's swiming programs back then at college and guy swimmers workout until 22 or 23 and many went over to masters competiton after college.
You could beat me in freestyle even when I was at my peak. I was not a freestyler. My best 100 yard free was at 1:03.8 and 5:58.0 in 500 yard freestyle as a teenager. Now in breastroke I swam a 1:16.1, the next best time was 1:16.8. My Masters time was a lot slower at 1:34.58. I don't workout as many yardages as you do as an adult. All those yardage as a kid built me up to swim fairly good up to the age of 20 years but I didn't even start working again at least an hour 3 to 4 times a week until last June. I also workout on my own, so I don't have a group to pace with. However, sometimes at lap swimming, I find someone near my speed. I was just saying is that I'm not the most natural swimmer and some age groupers that were A and B swimmers like myself can be beated by some master swimmers that started as adults. Your age group is very competitive even more so than the women in the 40 to44 because colleges recruited every male swimmer at least pre-national level to swim for them back in the late 1970s thru the mid 1980's. Women college programs in the 1970s' and early 1980's were behind the men's programs. They were still alot more men's swiming programs back then at college and guy swimmers workout until 22 or 23 and many went over to masters competiton after college.
