At risk of "beating a dead horse"....at least in respect to broaching this topic again! I had a number of conversations at convention with people who would like to see USMS move to a 3rd Championship meet in the fall for short course meters.
There are some great Zone meets going on...when you have 600+ going to Long Beach or New England why not up the ante a bit?
Thoughts?
Has there been consideration of this at Convention?
Not this year. Jeff Roddin probably knows if it's been discussed before.
I would imagine running a meet as a national championship requires more work than as an LMSC championship. There will need to be a significant return, and I am not at all sure that there would be.
Two national championships a year is plenty, IMO; does USA-S do more?
I agree that it is more work.
Even though USA-S only runs two Nationals, one of them is in December. NCAA's is practically a third Nationals.
For example: last year the NE meet was also a zone championship; I don't think there were any more swimmers than the year before, when it wasn't
I can believe that, but to me there's not much of a difference between being a LMSC champ or a Zone champ in an event. If I have the chance to be a National champ, that's more enticing. I think there's going to be more high level competition if a meet has the Nationals label.
Has there been consideration of this at Convention?
Not this year. Jeff Roddin probably knows if it's been discussed before.
I would imagine running a meet as a national championship requires more work than as an LMSC championship. There will need to be a significant return, and I am not at all sure that there would be.
Two national championships a year is plenty, IMO; does USA-S do more?
I agree that it is more work.
Even though USA-S only runs two Nationals, one of them is in December. NCAA's is practically a third Nationals.
For example: last year the NE meet was also a zone championship; I don't think there were any more swimmers than the year before, when it wasn't
I can believe that, but to me there's not much of a difference between being a LMSC champ or a Zone champ in an event. If I have the chance to be a National champ, that's more enticing. I think there's going to be more high level competition if a meet has the Nationals label.
