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?
There is nowhere in New England to host a national-level meet at this time. Harvard is not big enough to meet the demand of the NE SCY champs. BU is not nearly big enough to host a national event. The warmup space would be way too small for that level of meet. The new Brown facility may be a possibility, but you really need three short course setups (2 for competition, 1 for warmup) for either a SCY or SCM nationals. At NE SCY champs, we have 8 competition lanes and 10 warmup lanes, and that is barely enough.
-Rick
There is nowhere in New England to host a national-level meet at this time. Harvard is not big enough to meet the demand of the NE SCY champs. BU is not nearly big enough to host a national event. The warmup space would be way too small for that level of meet. The new Brown facility may be a possibility, but you really need three short course setups (2 for competition, 1 for warmup) for either a SCY or SCM nationals. At NE SCY champs, we have 8 competition lanes and 10 warmup lanes, and that is barely enough.
-Rick
