Every now and then I have been asked about dates for future USMS Nationals. Here are the dates for the meets currently on the calendar:
May 1-4, 2014 Spring Nationals: Santa Clara, CA
August 13-17, 2014 Summer Nationals: University of Maryland College Park
April 23-26, 2015 Spring Nationals: San Antonio, TX
August 6-9, 2015 Summer Nationals: SPIRE Institute, Ohio
Hosts for 2016 will be solicited and awarded next year.
Jeff Roddin
USMS Championship Committee Chair
I would much rather do so at a National meet, than some other meet that would have me swimming 6 events in 3 hours.
That's a very good point jpetyk. But it seems that in most cases, there is only one (maybe two) distance event offered at any local Masters meet. And if someone really wants to get a good time in their distance event, they won't be swimming 5 other events. Seems to me that saving those 5 other events for nationals and swimming the distance event at the local meet would make the most sense.
I don't have a solution,but I don't think both the 1500 and 800 should be NQT only events.If one prefers distance free events,but is not able to make NQTs ,should that person have none of there favorite events to swim?
That's a very good point Allen. I hadn't really thought about it from the perspective of someone who likes swimming distance events, but is not able to make NQTs.
That's a very good point Allen. I hadn't really thought about it from the perspective of someone who likes swimming distance events, but is not able to make NQTs.
I think a decent compromise would be to say you've got to make both NQTs in order to swim both events. You could still swim one or the other without making the cuts.
I think a decent compromise would be to say you've got to make both NQTs in order to swim both events. You could still swim one or the other without making the cuts.
I think that was how things were handled at Mission Viejo and I personally think it worked out well, though I didn't realize how hard it was to staff those late sessions. And Jeff mentioned it is unlikely that this will be an option this year because of only one competition pool and the extremely high number of swimmers expected. At Misison Viejo, yes the meet went a little late on Wednesday (1500 day) and Friday (800 day), but part of the reason for the very late day on Friday was the extremely unfortunate event that added about an hour to the timeline. Swimming at 7pm or 8pm isn't ideal, but assuming getting staff was possible, I'd prefer to have the option of swimming both the 1500 and 800 over not swimming one of them at all.
