One national meet, two zone meets, four LMSC meets, and seven "regular" meets... ho hum...
YMCA Nationals
Colonies Zones
SW Zones
Minnesota LMSC
Oregon LMSC (SCM)
Pacific Northwest LMSC
South Dakota LMSC
April Pools (Oklahoma)
Cascade POW Meet (Washington)
Great Lakes LMSC Challenge (Ohio)
Medina Masters Sprint Spectacular (Ohio)
Nitro Masters Open (Texas)
Snapping Tortuga (Texas)
Wellesley Masters Spring Summer Tune Up (Massachusetts)
I agree !
It would be great too, to go back to those
wonderful days of yesteryear, when you
could just arrive at the meet, do a warm
up, and decide on the spot, whether to enter the
meet, and deck-enter any event !
There were NO heat-sheets.
When you "entered" an event, they
gave you an IBM card, which served
as your entry "verification," with heat and lane
assignment and a place for the timers
to record your results.
Seeding was manual, just putting the
correct card in the right slot on the board.
(some folks "swapped" cards).
No written records of who was entered......
Some folks warmed up "in secret," and didn't appear behind
the blocks until the previous heat was just finishing !
Until the event was called to the blocks,
NOBODY knew who was going to be swimming,
not even the meet manager !
PLUS, you could "seem" to have entered an event,
and then "scratch" that event, and "deck enter"
something else.
Kept everybody guessing !
Here is a meet with deck entries allowed. It's not quite as fast and loose as what you describe above, but deck-entering still allows for a degree of gridge secrecy that is not found in most meets.
I agree !
It would be great too, to go back to those
wonderful days of yesteryear, when you
could just arrive at the meet, do a warm
up, and decide on the spot, whether to enter the
meet, and deck-enter any event !
There were NO heat-sheets.
When you "entered" an event, they
gave you an IBM card, which served
as your entry "verification," with heat and lane
assignment and a place for the timers
to record your results.
Seeding was manual, just putting the
correct card in the right slot on the board.
(some folks "swapped" cards).
No written records of who was entered......
Some folks warmed up "in secret," and didn't appear behind
the blocks until the previous heat was just finishing !
Until the event was called to the blocks,
NOBODY knew who was going to be swimming,
not even the meet manager !
PLUS, you could "seem" to have entered an event,
and then "scratch" that event, and "deck enter"
something else.
Kept everybody guessing !
Here is a meet with deck entries allowed. It's not quite as fast and loose as what you describe above, but deck-entering still allows for a degree of gridge secrecy that is not found in most meets.
