team scoring

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Former Member
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
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  • Swim4Life- Currently, there is no way to determine how many swimmers would fall into the small team category, until after the entries are closed. If you had a concrete number that said "X" would put you in a small team category, would you really prevent people from swimming for your team? The others would be unattached? Or? I'm hoping I read the end of your post wrong... I know that whatever division we're in, we're all trying to do our best. Usually, about half way through the meet, we see what teams are near us (for fun, really) and try to beat them. But that's just something to do really to make the meet a little more interesting! Out of curiosity (because I'm thinking I'm naive regarding this)- does it happen often, or is it prevalent, that teams will not permit swimmers to race at Nationals because they may not score? I can tell you that Kerry, head coach of WCM, would never prevent anyone from swimming at Nationals. Even if "X" would put us into one category, he would not exclude anyone. Our team mission statement purports "to have the individual leave the pool with a heightened sense of fulfillment."
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  • Swim4Life- Currently, there is no way to determine how many swimmers would fall into the small team category, until after the entries are closed. If you had a concrete number that said "X" would put you in a small team category, would you really prevent people from swimming for your team? The others would be unattached? Or? I'm hoping I read the end of your post wrong... I know that whatever division we're in, we're all trying to do our best. Usually, about half way through the meet, we see what teams are near us (for fun, really) and try to beat them. But that's just something to do really to make the meet a little more interesting! Out of curiosity (because I'm thinking I'm naive regarding this)- does it happen often, or is it prevalent, that teams will not permit swimmers to race at Nationals because they may not score? I can tell you that Kerry, head coach of WCM, would never prevent anyone from swimming at Nationals. Even if "X" would put us into one category, he would not exclude anyone. Our team mission statement purports "to have the individual leave the pool with a heightened sense of fulfillment."
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