OK, it may be over a year away but why not start a thread on 2011 Short Course (Spring) Nationals? This meet will be held at the newly-renovated Kino Aquatics Center in Mesa, which is just east of Phoenix. So go ahead and pipe in, I'm sure we will get some good conversation flowing.
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2) the open water event in Mesa is only on that weekend because there was thought in making it combined with nationals (he would have done it on monday afterward like Clovis as well).:)
Actually not true Kurt! The open water races that have been held on the Monday following pool nationals have had VERY low turnout (around 200 on average)...regardless of whether we ran both events or not I was always in favor of holding the event on Saturday.
Truth is by doing it this way we are more likely to get folks more interested in swimming OW to possibly attend nationals for an event or two, especially by offering a 1 mile, 2k & 4k which has not been done in the past. Bottom line is DCB runs a great event and having it the Saturday of our meet means you will see double to triple the number of participants PLUS kids divisions.
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2) the open water event in Mesa is only on that weekend because there was thought in making it combined with nationals (he would have done it on monday afterward like Clovis as well).:)
Actually not true Kurt! The open water races that have been held on the Monday following pool nationals have had VERY low turnout (around 200 on average)...regardless of whether we ran both events or not I was always in favor of holding the event on Saturday.
Truth is by doing it this way we are more likely to get folks more interested in swimming OW to possibly attend nationals for an event or two, especially by offering a 1 mile, 2k & 4k which has not been done in the past. Bottom line is DCB runs a great event and having it the Saturday of our meet means you will see double to triple the number of participants PLUS kids divisions.
