first of all, congrats to the meet directors and all the volunteers on a job well done. so organized and efficient!! very impressive. the only thing i wish someone could explain to me is why the usms champ. committee changed the team scoring from large, medium and small team to clumping everyone in the same category. seems extremely unfair to have what i call "real teams" competing against state mega teams. there is no possibility for "real teams" to ever come close to competing against them. if you are going to give team awards at the end of the meet, is there any way you can do it fairly? our team is extremely proud to have gotten as many team members as we did to go to natls. (most of them for the first time), but unfortunately they were very disillusioned (as was i) with the idea that we would be competing against state teams. as one of the coaches i didn't have an explanation. even though we were very proud of our 7th place finish in men's division, and our 12th place in combined, we were only one of a few "real teams" in the top ten. would appreciate responses. maybe even someone from the champ.committee could explain how they felt this scoring system would be more fair to the majority of swimmers. then i can pass it along to my teammates.. i don't want them to be so disillusioned that they lose interest in attending any future natls. thanks
Here's a semi-alternate point of view. As an unattached swimmer, I wasn't listed in my LMSC's results from short course nationals. My LMSC competed as a "super team." Not being listed with the swimmers that I regularly compete against stung a little. It made me wonder: if I had set an LMSC record at Nationals, would it even have counted? If a tree falls in the forest, yada yada yada...
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That guy. You should send an email to your LMSC registrar. Seems odd. I swam unattached for a year before I joined my "real club team" last year. My times always showed up in our LMSC listings.
Good post Frosty. I think you summed it up. Forget team scoring at nationals and keep scoring at association or zones meets to encourage more people to compete. At our local meets, usually only 5-7 people from my team attend. But at zones, which has been at my home pool the last few years, a LOT more people attend and we have tons of relays. It's much more fun.
Here's a semi-alternate point of view. As an unattached swimmer, I wasn't listed in my LMSC's results from short course nationals. My LMSC competed as a "super team." Not being listed with the swimmers that I regularly compete against stung a little. It made me wonder: if I had set an LMSC record at Nationals, would it even have counted? If a tree falls in the forest, yada yada yada...
:violin:
That guy. You should send an email to your LMSC registrar. Seems odd. I swam unattached for a year before I joined my "real club team" last year. My times always showed up in our LMSC listings.
Good post Frosty. I think you summed it up. Forget team scoring at nationals and keep scoring at association or zones meets to encourage more people to compete. At our local meets, usually only 5-7 people from my team attend. But at zones, which has been at my home pool the last few years, a LOT more people attend and we have tons of relays. It's much more fun.
