I see that the Championship Committee is finally considering having distance swimmers pay more for their splashes. See www.usms.org/.../champ-2012-3-25-1.pdf. This is long overdue since they are the reason that national championships last so long. If we only had 50’s and 100’s we’d be done by noon every day. Maybe with increased fees swimmers will think twice before entering a 1650.
I am writing to say the Championship Committee Minutes for the conference call were in fact fabricated 100% to be an April Fool's joke. About the only morsel of truth in the entire document was the Greensboro status report. For what it's worth, nobody in USMS was even aware of this idea, so if anybody has any issues with what we've done please blame Michael and I and not the rest of the Championship Committee because I never asked for an endorsement to do this. I figure it would be pretty hard to get fired from being a volunteer...:D
This was all supposed to be in good fun and I hope nobody is too disappointed to learn it was all a hoax.
See you in Greensboro! I'll be hiding somewhere from the distance swimmers. :afraid:
Jeff Roddin
USMS Championship Committee Chair
And it was "submitted" today. Read the entire document. Do you really think they're going to have warmup for the 2014 Nationals in the Charles River? And that Trojan is going to be a Nationals sponsor?:joker:
Whoops, I didn't go that far. :blush:
For what it's worth, nobody in USMS was even aware of this idea, so if anybody has any issues with what we've done please blame Michael and I and not the rest of the Championship Committee because I never asked for an endorsement to do this. I figure it would be pretty hard to get fired from being a volunteer...:D
Jeff Roddin
USMS Championship Committee Chair
Uh - Jeff - you did not get the message, Nadine accepted our "resignations."
-michael
I see that the Championship Committee is finally considering having distance swimmers pay more for their splashes. See www.usms.org/.../champ-2012-3-25-1.pdf. This is long overdue since they are the reason that national championships last so long. If we only had 50’s and 100’s we’d be done by noon every day. Maybe with increased fees swimmers will think twice before entering a 1650.Sure, then let's go to 25s only and then we'd be out by 9am. Hey, better yet, how about we just race to the flags and call it a day?
What a stupid idea.
This is called swimming ... if anything, we need to remove the 50s, especially in short course, so we can see more swimming and less starting, turning and underwater dolphin kick.
Maybe with increased fees swimmers will think twice before entering a 1650.
Maybe if I owned a fast twitch fiber I would think twice before entering the 1650.
TEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS WITHOUT A TOP TEN
