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
USMS could create one "National Club" called "USMS" and anyone from across USA, which was discussed with the FINA World Masters in 2006.
Interesting proposal, do you really think the FINA Masters Committee would allow the swimmers to swim as a nation? I had a modest proposal on 1 April and there was one letter to the EC that practically called for the break up of Pacific LMSC, what do you think would happen if USMS went to worlds as one team. It is one thing if Costa Rica comes as one team, it would be entirely another if US came as one team.
Should swimmers be required to register in the LMSC they live ?
Why should we? In Pacific, the last time I looked 1.3% of its membership lived outside the LMSC bounderies. There has been no arguement made to advocate that this would even the competition, Many times the people who live outside the zone have historic reasons for staying with the LMSC that is not where they currently reside.
Should we re-evaluate the LMSC structure so the population distribution is reflective in the size of the LMSC ?
While one could look at this question to see that it may be advocating breaking up Pacific, one should look at South Dakota, and North Dakota. We should do something to help those LMSCs become more successful.
michael
USMS could create one "National Club" called "USMS" and anyone from across USA, which was discussed with the FINA World Masters in 2006.
Interesting proposal, do you really think the FINA Masters Committee would allow the swimmers to swim as a nation? I had a modest proposal on 1 April and there was one letter to the EC that practically called for the break up of Pacific LMSC, what do you think would happen if USMS went to worlds as one team. It is one thing if Costa Rica comes as one team, it would be entirely another if US came as one team.
Should swimmers be required to register in the LMSC they live ?
Why should we? In Pacific, the last time I looked 1.3% of its membership lived outside the LMSC bounderies. There has been no arguement made to advocate that this would even the competition, Many times the people who live outside the zone have historic reasons for staying with the LMSC that is not where they currently reside.
Should we re-evaluate the LMSC structure so the population distribution is reflective in the size of the LMSC ?
While one could look at this question to see that it may be advocating breaking up Pacific, one should look at South Dakota, and North Dakota. We should do something to help those LMSCs become more successful.
michael
