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
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.
Thanks for the suggestion, Fortress. Remember that the LMSC results were published right here on usms.org, not by individual LMSC's. But thinking about it some more, I remembered my LMSC has all time top ten lists. I checked 'em and I appear to have gotten on a couple of those with my times at Federal Way. If my times don't show up when the lists are updated (and if my times weren't superceded by enough Other Guys that I'd not be on the lists anymore) then I'll put on my pestering hat.
Edit: Fortress is right, thanks to matysekj for pointing it out in a private message. Unattached swimmers are listed at the bottom of each LMSC's results. It didn't occur to me to look there; I looked in my age group. However my LMSC's web site posted a version of the results that do not include the unattached swimmers so that's where I'll direct the pestering.
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.
Thanks for the suggestion, Fortress. Remember that the LMSC results were published right here on usms.org, not by individual LMSC's. But thinking about it some more, I remembered my LMSC has all time top ten lists. I checked 'em and I appear to have gotten on a couple of those with my times at Federal Way. If my times don't show up when the lists are updated (and if my times weren't superceded by enough Other Guys that I'd not be on the lists anymore) then I'll put on my pestering hat.
Edit: Fortress is right, thanks to matysekj for pointing it out in a private message. Unattached swimmers are listed at the bottom of each LMSC's results. It didn't occur to me to look there; I looked in my age group. However my LMSC's web site posted a version of the results that do not include the unattached swimmers so that's where I'll direct the pestering.
