Exactly, Skip. In fact, the only viable way to have SCMNats is to occasionally replace the SCY meet with it, say, every five years when I age up?
Peter:
That is exactly why we have never had a Short Course Meters Nationals in place of the Short Course Yards Nationals in the Spring. You would always be denying a group that would normally age up for those Nationals and they would never get the benefit of swimming and being the youngest in their age group for a Short Course Yards season. On the other hand it would also have younger members in the next highest age group that would not be there because they would have birthdays that would be later than the Nationals date and they would get to age up earlier like for SCM and LCM events.
The way the system is now a lot of SCM meets are in the fall and thru out the year, people have plenty of opportunity to swim in these meets and make the Top Ten. The season is longer than LCM to me because you can find meets spread throughout the year but with LCM its pretty much the standard Memorial Day to Labor Day season unless you hit USA meets. So right now I think this is the way things will be until the set up of a Virtual SCM National Championships in which all of the Zone meets would be Championships and the National Champion and Top Ten for the championships would be like a combination of these meets, like a postal competition and that would be your Short Course Meters National Championship.
Exactly, Skip. In fact, the only viable way to have SCMNats is to occasionally replace the SCY meet with it, say, every five years when I age up?
Peter:
That is exactly why we have never had a Short Course Meters Nationals in place of the Short Course Yards Nationals in the Spring. You would always be denying a group that would normally age up for those Nationals and they would never get the benefit of swimming and being the youngest in their age group for a Short Course Yards season. On the other hand it would also have younger members in the next highest age group that would not be there because they would have birthdays that would be later than the Nationals date and they would get to age up earlier like for SCM and LCM events.
The way the system is now a lot of SCM meets are in the fall and thru out the year, people have plenty of opportunity to swim in these meets and make the Top Ten. The season is longer than LCM to me because you can find meets spread throughout the year but with LCM its pretty much the standard Memorial Day to Labor Day season unless you hit USA meets. So right now I think this is the way things will be until the set up of a Virtual SCM National Championships in which all of the Zone meets would be Championships and the National Champion and Top Ten for the championships would be like a combination of these meets, like a postal competition and that would be your Short Course Meters National Championship.
