This is somewhat related to another post I just started (Top Ten conerns). I noticed in the top ten list a number of swimmers (generally very fast swimmers) who swam their first nationals (or any other masters meet) in 5 years due to being in a new age group. I state this by looking at the past few years top ten lists and not seeing their names. Is this a good thing for masters swimming? Swimmers whose only affiliation with masters swimming is showing up to one meet every 5 years to break a record. These records should be owned by people that are true masters swimmers.
What is a true masters swimmers?- Perhaps doing a few meets a year might work. When I swam on an age group team as a child, I know in order to qualify for our championship meet, we had to swim at least 3 regular meets. Perhaps a rule like that for Nationals could begin to fix this problem-
If not, many of our national records will be held by "ringers"
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True Masters swimmers... huh. It never occurred to me. I kind of like that idea. Maybe we could implement that next year at the Nationals... When you show up in the morning... just head for the "True Masters Registration Table"
Just to get things rolling....
The criteria could be:
Q. Have you swam in a meet b4?
Q. Have you competed in the last five years?
Q. How many practices do you attend per week..
Q. Have you ever held any records outside of Masters Swimming? (Automatic Disqualification)
Q. Are you a U.S. Citizen?
Q. Do you have a Green Card... a MastersCard... a Visa and American Express?
Im down TB... I think the that idea would be totally sweet.
Shinob - Out
True Masters swimmers... huh. It never occurred to me. I kind of like that idea. Maybe we could implement that next year at the Nationals... When you show up in the morning... just head for the "True Masters Registration Table"
Just to get things rolling....
The criteria could be:
Q. Have you swam in a meet b4?
Q. Have you competed in the last five years?
Q. How many practices do you attend per week..
Q. Have you ever held any records outside of Masters Swimming? (Automatic Disqualification)
Q. Are you a U.S. Citizen?
Q. Do you have a Green Card... a MastersCard... a Visa and American Express?
Im down TB... I think the that idea would be totally sweet.
Shinob - Out
