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?
The problem is the ratio of SCY to SCM pools is probably 100:1.
What's kind of odd is that, around here at least, virtually all summer league swimming takes place in SCM pools!
Someone once told me -- I have no idea if this is true -- that many of the local summer club pools were built in the early/mid-70s when there was briefly talk of the US switching over to the metric system.
My son's USA-S club has two 25y x 25m pools. They almost never set up for SCM because there are fewer lanes that way; one time they do is when they host the summer league championship meet. (So Richmond's summer swim leagues obviously know something USMS doesn't.)
The problem is the ratio of SCY to SCM pools is probably 100:1.
What's kind of odd is that, around here at least, virtually all summer league swimming takes place in SCM pools!
Someone once told me -- I have no idea if this is true -- that many of the local summer club pools were built in the early/mid-70s when there was briefly talk of the US switching over to the metric system.
My son's USA-S club has two 25y x 25m pools. They almost never set up for SCM because there are fewer lanes that way; one time they do is when they host the summer league championship meet. (So Richmond's summer swim leagues obviously know something USMS doesn't.)
