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7. USA-S meets won't be measured. Make sure it is a fixed wall pool with measurements on file.
Not quite true, Leslie. I do LC Jr Champs each year at UMD which has a bulkhead. Prior to the meet I email the director and ask him if the pool can be measured. The staff there is great at measuring it for me before and after and filing out the forms.
1. Let us say, for sake of argument, that a pool is .0001 microns short. The pool would be invalid for official USMS competition, correct? I mean you could still have meets there, but the times wouldn't "count" in any kind of official way except, potentially, for FINA. Now, the pool's owners can remediate the pool, a la Stanford University several years ago, at no small expense, and make the pool USMS-ready. But honestly, who is going to spend many thousands, if not many tens of thousands, if not many hundreds of thousands of dollars shaving a pool wall down by .0001 microns? Nobody in their right mind. Hence, this pool will forever be ineligible for USMS competitions.
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In the case of the THills Zone meet, which was at my home pool at the time, the rec. department did take off the new tile they had put on which made the pool too short. In this case, the pool had been re-tiled on all 4 walls. For cost savings, they only shaved down the deep end to make it legal for 50m and, with bulkheads, 25y and 25m. It is still not legal width-wise and I doubt it ever will be. I was the lucky one that had to measure the pool after the new rule. It was not enjoyable at 7 months pregnant!
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7. USA-S meets won't be measured. Make sure it is a fixed wall pool with measurements on file.
Not quite true, Leslie. I do LC Jr Champs each year at UMD which has a bulkhead. Prior to the meet I email the director and ask him if the pool can be measured. The staff there is great at measuring it for me before and after and filing out the forms.
1. Let us say, for sake of argument, that a pool is .0001 microns short. The pool would be invalid for official USMS competition, correct? I mean you could still have meets there, but the times wouldn't "count" in any kind of official way except, potentially, for FINA. Now, the pool's owners can remediate the pool, a la Stanford University several years ago, at no small expense, and make the pool USMS-ready. But honestly, who is going to spend many thousands, if not many tens of thousands, if not many hundreds of thousands of dollars shaving a pool wall down by .0001 microns? Nobody in their right mind. Hence, this pool will forever be ineligible for USMS competitions.
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In the case of the THills Zone meet, which was at my home pool at the time, the rec. department did take off the new tile they had put on which made the pool too short. In this case, the pool had been re-tiled on all 4 walls. For cost savings, they only shaved down the deep end to make it legal for 50m and, with bulkheads, 25y and 25m. It is still not legal width-wise and I doubt it ever will be. I was the lucky one that had to measure the pool after the new rule. It was not enjoyable at 7 months pregnant!
