August 24, 2012 - U.S. Masters Swimming has awarded its 2014 and 2015 USMS Spring and Summer Nationals. The 2014 Spring Nationals has been awarded to Santa Clara. The 2014 Summer Nationals has been awarded to the University of Maryland. The 2015 Spring Nationals has been awarded to San Antonio. The 2015 Summer Nationals has been awarded to the SPIRE Institute.
Santa Clara has a rich swimming history and has hosted five USMS national championships, the most recent in 2001. Santa Clara Masters has nearly 300 USMS members. The club also hosts a USA Swimming Grand Prix event. The 2014 Spring Nationals are tentatively slated for May 1–4, 2014.
Summer 2014 will be the first time the University of Maryland hosts a USMS national championship meet. The Eppley Natatorium, however, is no stranger to national events, including the USA Swimming Nationals, the IGLA Championships, and the ACC Swimming & Diving Conference Championships. The University of Maryland is home to Terrapin Masters, a club with nearly 80 USMS members. The 2014 Summer Nationals are tentatively slated for August 14–17, 2014.
San Antonio last hosted a USMS Nationals in 1978 and this will be the first time the SPIRE Institute, located about 45 minutes east of Cleveland, will host a USMS nationals. The dates for 2015 will be announced in the summer of 2013.
“We are thrilled to partner with these four locations to host our 2014 and 2015 nationals,” says USMS Championship Committee Chair Jeff Roddin. “The USMS Spring Nationals, with 2,000 or so participants, is the largest participant swim meet in the country and the USMS Summer Nationals, with 1,000 or so participants, is also a very big event. All four hosts have the necessary local and community support to provide a showcase experience for USMS participants.”
The official press release can be found here:
www.usms.org/.../newsitem.php
Why not run the meet indoors and use the outdoor pool as warmup/down space?
Because only weirdos like Leslie like to swim indoors. :bolt:
San Antonio sounds interesting. I believe it's the only city with over one million people in the U.S. I haven't been to yet!
Yes, this is the facility that won the bid to host 2015 Spring Nationals. They will have 2 50m pools, plus a 10 lane diving well, plus a 3 lane shallow pool. There will be no bulkhead courses. The plan is to use two 10 lane courses in the new outdoor 50m pool (across the width) and then have ~35 warm up lanes available in the other pools. It is possible we could run a third course during some distance events but we have a wee bit of time before we need to look at the details!
Jeff
Why not run the meet indoors and use the outdoor pool as warmup/down space?
My perspective from California:
Why would anyone ever build or use an indoor swimming facility?My perspective from having swum in and around pools in the San Fran area: why hasn't anyone other than UCSF realized that it gets too cold to swim outside there much of the year and built more indoor pools?
Of course, to be fair, I wonder the same thing about Arizona. Actually, to be completely fair, I think it's downright stupid that we don't have a quality indoor pool here in the Phoenix area: there's really only about 2-3 months out of the year here where the weather is actually good enough to host a quality outdoor meet; otherwise it's just too hot or too cold.
This is how I see my summer of 2014 playing out:
Worlds, Montreal, July 28-August 9. :canada:
Rent a car and drive up one side of the river to see Quebec City for a few days.
Either drive back down the river on the other side and do more sightseeing, flying out of Montreal, or fly out of Quebect City to Maryland.
LC Nationals, University of Maryland, August 14-17 :banana:
Fly back home to Georgia.
I'm saving my :2cents:++++++ up for an awesome trip with my husband!
:bliss:
Who else is plans on doing this?
This sums up San Antonio in August. Having a a major meet outdoors in the summertime is about as smart as letting Geek coach a masters team.
Gotta agree with ya here- on both. :agree: I lived through four Augusts in San Antonio and the heat was HELL. Yes, it was worse than where I live now, in Georgia, so don't even go there Forumites! :nono:
it's just too hot...
This sums up San Antonio in August. Having a a major meet outdoors in the summertime is about as smart as letting Geek coach a masters team.
The only people that care are backstrokers, obviously. :)
To me the only problem with outdoor meets is they can be a crapshoot. Weather can be a factor.
And most of them tend to be LCM as well! :bolt:
My perspective from California:
Why would anyone ever build or use an indoor swimming facility?
Because not every part of the country has weather to use a pool year around that is outdoors.
