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
Hi Paul,
I agree, the more the merrier. Success at Nationals can translate into success for the clubs back home, and get more participants in the program.
What Pacific was trying to do was make a different scoring proposal that took account of the comments on this discussion forum, and would not change the way USMS already registers swimmers across all the LMSCs.
The L2 proposal would not change the way swimmers are registered, it would only change how Nationals are scored. Some of the LMScs (like NEM) have "workout groups" and some of them have both separate club teams and workout groups (like in Georgia). Pacific does not have any of these distinctions, we only have club teams.
Leianne
Hi Paul,
I agree, the more the merrier. Success at Nationals can translate into success for the clubs back home, and get more participants in the program.
What Pacific was trying to do was make a different scoring proposal that took account of the comments on this discussion forum, and would not change the way USMS already registers swimmers across all the LMSCs.
The L2 proposal would not change the way swimmers are registered, it would only change how Nationals are scored. Some of the LMScs (like NEM) have "workout groups" and some of them have both separate club teams and workout groups (like in Georgia). Pacific does not have any of these distinctions, we only have club teams.
Leianne
