What if for instance DAM (club classification with 450 registered swimmers) had 200 participants at natl's and NEM (superteam classification with 1070 reg. swimmers) only had 50? How is this better than the small, medium, large classification recently voted out? Regardless of how you are formed (club vs. superteam) or the number of registered swimmers - divisions by number of PARTICIPANTS seemed to make reasonable sense.
Here, there are a lot of dinky little teams practicing at dinky little pools at rec centers that don't really want them there. In many states where swimming is not as popular (read probably not CA, TX, FL) there aren't the facilities available with generous pool time to build strong club teams. What about the density of the population near the facilities to draw a team? Is it fair for my dinky little club team (that swims at the dinky little pool with 6 dinky little hours per WEEK for the masters team) that has say 6 to 8 swimmers at nat'ls to compete in the same division with a club team that brings 50 swimmers (and has the blessings of 5 workouts per DAY)?
Geographical issues (facility resources, population density - or lack of either) seem like an insurmountable handicap.
What if for instance DAM (club classification with 450 registered swimmers) had 200 participants at natl's and NEM (superteam classification with 1070 reg. swimmers) only had 50? How is this better than the small, medium, large classification recently voted out? Regardless of how you are formed (club vs. superteam) or the number of registered swimmers - divisions by number of PARTICIPANTS seemed to make reasonable sense.
Here, there are a lot of dinky little teams practicing at dinky little pools at rec centers that don't really want them there. In many states where swimming is not as popular (read probably not CA, TX, FL) there aren't the facilities available with generous pool time to build strong club teams. What about the density of the population near the facilities to draw a team? Is it fair for my dinky little club team (that swims at the dinky little pool with 6 dinky little hours per WEEK for the masters team) that has say 6 to 8 swimmers at nat'ls to compete in the same division with a club team that brings 50 swimmers (and has the blessings of 5 workouts per DAY)?
Geographical issues (facility resources, population density - or lack of either) seem like an insurmountable handicap.
