Saw one of the more interesting articles about the past, present, and future aspects of competitive swimming on SwimInfo's website the other day from Wayne Goldsmith..
www.swiminfo.com/.../7720.asp
I think it provokes a great deal of thought in this arena and specifically within this group since many of us either participate, have friends/relatives who participate, or remember participating in competitive swim meets.
I particularly appreciate the parents perspective provided in the article. While I have little children (5 and almost 3 years old), the thought of going through what my parents did with me makes me hesitate to sign up for the first set of SwimAmerica lessons or summer club swim team to introduce them to swimming. While I swam through my school age years, I didn't really consider just what my parents had to go through right along with me.. I was always thinking about what i was going through. Wow!
Check out the article and see what you think...
Rob
Parents
Former Member
I'm not an attorney but it seems to me you hurt the case of calling it a practice each time you refer to it as a meet. Any familiar enough with our insurance policy care to comment. I think doing things differently is great but I'd hate to go to a meet and have something happen only to find we aren't covered.
Statements calling it a meet.
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H2O Girl Scout Cookie Pickup Dual Mock Meet - Sat May 8
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This is the 2nd installment of our new pickup dual Meet format.
Advance entries will only be taken by email. First come, first served. Entries will be limited to a maximum of 30 to keep the Meet of short duration.
"PICKUP" - This means the teams will be assigned after all entries are in with an eye toward having roughly equal teams - we'll try to equalize sex, age and ability distributions across the two teams - a bit like kids choose up teams on the playground, only the Meet Director will do the choosing.
We will NOT necessarily offer all events in this Meet. Instead, we ask you to list the 5 different events you'd MOST like to see offered in the Meet.
HOW MANY events we actually run in the Meet.
The list of events will be announced on Meet day.
BUT, at our last Meet everyone had an opportunity to swim their first-choice event
Midnight Monday prior to the Meet - We need to have a minimum of 20 advance entries by then to make this event viable. If we get that, then we'll continue to accept advance entries till noon of the day before the Meet, up to the entry limit of 30. You can cancel, with no obligation, until Thurs prior to the Meet. We'll collect entry fees on the day of the meet. Please do not enter unless you actually plan to show up and participate. We'll consider your email entry as a commitment and uncancelled no-shows will be expected to pay anyway. No deck entries allowed.
H2O has it's normally scheduled Sat morning practice from 7-8:30am. All Meet participants are welcome and encouraged to participate in the H2O practice prior to the Meet
Here you even compare your practice with the meet
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MEET DAY SCHEDULE
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MEET FROMAT
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Statement calling it a practice.
this is a USMS "practice" rather than a "Meet".
I'm not an attorney but it seems to me you hurt the case of calling it a practice each time you refer to it as a meet. Any familiar enough with our insurance policy care to comment. I think doing things differently is great but I'd hate to go to a meet and have something happen only to find we aren't covered.
Statements calling it a meet.
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H2O Girl Scout Cookie Pickup Dual Mock Meet - Sat May 8
=================================================
This is the 2nd installment of our new pickup dual Meet format.
Advance entries will only be taken by email. First come, first served. Entries will be limited to a maximum of 30 to keep the Meet of short duration.
"PICKUP" - This means the teams will be assigned after all entries are in with an eye toward having roughly equal teams - we'll try to equalize sex, age and ability distributions across the two teams - a bit like kids choose up teams on the playground, only the Meet Director will do the choosing.
We will NOT necessarily offer all events in this Meet. Instead, we ask you to list the 5 different events you'd MOST like to see offered in the Meet.
HOW MANY events we actually run in the Meet.
The list of events will be announced on Meet day.
BUT, at our last Meet everyone had an opportunity to swim their first-choice event
Midnight Monday prior to the Meet - We need to have a minimum of 20 advance entries by then to make this event viable. If we get that, then we'll continue to accept advance entries till noon of the day before the Meet, up to the entry limit of 30. You can cancel, with no obligation, until Thurs prior to the Meet. We'll collect entry fees on the day of the meet. Please do not enter unless you actually plan to show up and participate. We'll consider your email entry as a commitment and uncancelled no-shows will be expected to pay anyway. No deck entries allowed.
H2O has it's normally scheduled Sat morning practice from 7-8:30am. All Meet participants are welcome and encouraged to participate in the H2O practice prior to the Meet
Here you even compare your practice with the meet
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MEET DAY SCHEDULE
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------------------------------------------
MEET FROMAT
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Statement calling it a practice.
this is a USMS "practice" rather than a "Meet".