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
I dunno. If I looked at it from a personal perspective, I’d still say club scoring doesn't rate high on my list of objectives.
Bill, sometime I would suggest you hang out a bit with the folks like CMS, Walnut Creek, TYR, etc. and get more of the inside scoop on how swimmers within these organizations go about getting ready for Nationals.
I'll give you a personal experiance....right now I have at least 50 emails archived from a group of about 25 old "has beens" that started the same day
that Austin was announced....the badgering, taunting, betting and blackmail taking place to try and get some of these people to show up is not suitable for posting on this forum.
The point is...there is a whole sub culture that is promoting this sport and our events that a lot of folks don't know about...until they see Colorado fly to Florida wit over 100 swimmers and win.....or TYR show up at Worlds and break records in the relays....
Now truth be told...most of these people including myself don't take it all that seriousslly...its more social and fitness based for me than anything...that is until i step onto the blocks and "flip the on switch"....
I dunno. If I looked at it from a personal perspective, I’d still say club scoring doesn't rate high on my list of objectives.
Bill, sometime I would suggest you hang out a bit with the folks like CMS, Walnut Creek, TYR, etc. and get more of the inside scoop on how swimmers within these organizations go about getting ready for Nationals.
I'll give you a personal experiance....right now I have at least 50 emails archived from a group of about 25 old "has beens" that started the same day
that Austin was announced....the badgering, taunting, betting and blackmail taking place to try and get some of these people to show up is not suitable for posting on this forum.
The point is...there is a whole sub culture that is promoting this sport and our events that a lot of folks don't know about...until they see Colorado fly to Florida wit over 100 swimmers and win.....or TYR show up at Worlds and break records in the relays....
Now truth be told...most of these people including myself don't take it all that seriousslly...its more social and fitness based for me than anything...that is until i step onto the blocks and "flip the on switch"....
