Anyone know what the entry deadline will be for the SCY 2004 national meet?
Reason I ask -- the meet is rather early this year (April 22-25). In New England, we are looking to schedule our local SCY championship meet. It would be nice to be able to have our meet before the entry deadline for the nationals, so that people can use times from our meet to enter.
(Seems to me it makes sense for USMS to push the entry deadline as close to the meet as practical, since I imagine lots of other LMSCs will have SCY championship meets right around the entry deadline.)
-Rick
Hi Bob,
I will discuss this entry deadline with Mel Goldstein at convention later this week.
The issues we face are: 75% of swimmers enter in the last week before the deadline, problem entries (approximately 10% have errors of some sort that require swimmer contact) need to be solved, psyche sheets posted for corrections from swimmers after initial problems solved, then printing. So the timeline starts from the printer deadline and works backwards. Even though we do not publish the entire heat sheet now due to deck seeding, we still have to do teams, team divisions, the final layout of the program, etc. after the entry deadline.
Sandi
Hi Bob,
I will discuss this entry deadline with Mel Goldstein at convention later this week.
The issues we face are: 75% of swimmers enter in the last week before the deadline, problem entries (approximately 10% have errors of some sort that require swimmer contact) need to be solved, psyche sheets posted for corrections from swimmers after initial problems solved, then printing. So the timeline starts from the printer deadline and works backwards. Even though we do not publish the entire heat sheet now due to deck seeding, we still have to do teams, team divisions, the final layout of the program, etc. after the entry deadline.
Sandi
