My masters team(Chattanooga River Rats) is looking to host a scy meet this spring. We are trying to decide when is the better time to host the event.
We are deciding between middle-to-late March or early April. There are some that think a mid-late March would be good time. This would be before the entry deadline for nationals, so someone could attempt to make a nqt. Others think that a tune-up meet in April would be better, since people can swim 3 events without nqt's.
If you were looking for a spring scy meet, what would be your idea time?
I don't live in your area so wouldn't be at the meet regardless of date. But another thing you'd want to keep in mind is Y Nationals. It is usually held in mid-April and quite a few swimmers in the southeast use it as their SCY taper meet.
What Chris said.
There's a meet at MTSU in Murfreesboro that you probably want to avoid, and two meets in Atlanta (the St. Pats meet at Dynamo and the Rainbow Trout Spring Splash at Ga Tech). If you avoid those, you might attract some people from the Nashville/Murfreesboro area and from Atlanta. I don't think there's any risk of conflict with the NAC spring long course meet.
That's right! I forgot about the St. Pat's meet at Dynamo. Both St. Pat's and Spring Splash draw good attendance.
Cheryl and I spoke today. She gave me the tentative time frame for their meet. We will avoid those dates. Does anyone know the tentative dates for either St. Pats or the Trout meet?
I voted for April as that's when I hit a meet further west from TN (Oklahoma and Arkansas). Over the past few years I've been able to hit meets in April should I choose to do so, if I miss one then it's from my own laziness, not a scheduling conflict. My :2cents:
