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
Meg, thanks for explaining how to quote - I'm sure I'll use it soon!! :)
Karen, if it's really a viable option to impose sanctions, then that seems fine with me. I'm just not sure how realistic that is. And, actually this seems like the perfect example of how S/M/L division create more problems than it solves.
Meg, regarding Kentucky, I understand your challenge in competing with a host Regional team like PNA. Similarly, the Local teams competing against the Local Host team face the same challenge - no one is really expected to compete with Woodlands at their own home. It's just part of the sport...any sport. I don't think we should try to even EVERY aspect of the playing field when it involves the creation of more problems. (It actually had never even crossed my mind until you mentioned it that a Men's team and Women's team from the same Club might be scored in different divisions. Yikes!)
On a side note, I'msure Team TYR is very nice. But somehow that 60 day rule didn't apply last year when people switched teams so quickly to attempt to break a relay record. (There were 3 meets in 4 weeks, each 2 weeks apart, and there was a lot of switching. That's all I'm saying. It doesn't even effect me, I'm just curious how it's alowed.)
Meg, thanks for explaining how to quote - I'm sure I'll use it soon!! :)
Karen, if it's really a viable option to impose sanctions, then that seems fine with me. I'm just not sure how realistic that is. And, actually this seems like the perfect example of how S/M/L division create more problems than it solves.
Meg, regarding Kentucky, I understand your challenge in competing with a host Regional team like PNA. Similarly, the Local teams competing against the Local Host team face the same challenge - no one is really expected to compete with Woodlands at their own home. It's just part of the sport...any sport. I don't think we should try to even EVERY aspect of the playing field when it involves the creation of more problems. (It actually had never even crossed my mind until you mentioned it that a Men's team and Women's team from the same Club might be scored in different divisions. Yikes!)
On a side note, I'msure Team TYR is very nice. But somehow that 60 day rule didn't apply last year when people switched teams so quickly to attempt to break a relay record. (There were 3 meets in 4 weeks, each 2 weeks apart, and there was a lot of switching. That's all I'm saying. It doesn't even effect me, I'm just curious how it's alowed.)
