And at the risk of jumping back into the fray, Karen, I don’t follow your logic when you stated:
I also pointed out that there are inherent differences in swimming:
1) females don't swim against males (mixed relays excepted)
2) 19 year olds don't swim against 85 year olds
3) club teams are different than SUPERTEAMS (for reasons above and shouldn't be made to compete against them- no matter how good or bad either is)
Are you saying we should have separate events for superteams? Will I be swimming the Men’s 45-49 SuperTeam 1650 and not have to compete against the club team milers?
To me your points 1 and 2 deal with it issue of defining categories for individuals to compete and have little to do with the accumulation of points for team awards. Point 3 appears to deal with a group’s ability to accumulate points for team awards or possibly in forming relays. If it is about tallying points how does it relate to 1 or 2? Are an 85 year olds’ point more or less fair than a 19 year olds’?
But for me the real question, for which I have no answer, is, do super-teams and clubs both support the USMS mission and objectives?
And at the risk of jumping back into the fray, Karen, I don’t follow your logic when you stated:
I also pointed out that there are inherent differences in swimming:
1) females don't swim against males (mixed relays excepted)
2) 19 year olds don't swim against 85 year olds
3) club teams are different than SUPERTEAMS (for reasons above and shouldn't be made to compete against them- no matter how good or bad either is)
Are you saying we should have separate events for superteams? Will I be swimming the Men’s 45-49 SuperTeam 1650 and not have to compete against the club team milers?
To me your points 1 and 2 deal with it issue of defining categories for individuals to compete and have little to do with the accumulation of points for team awards. Point 3 appears to deal with a group’s ability to accumulate points for team awards or possibly in forming relays. If it is about tallying points how does it relate to 1 or 2? Are an 85 year olds’ point more or less fair than a 19 year olds’?
But for me the real question, for which I have no answer, is, do super-teams and clubs both support the USMS mission and objectives?
