What are your thoughts about teams combining for out of LMSC meets (not nationals) and not competing as the same team within the LMSC.
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In response to Lindsay's question, "Why have club competition at all?"
Because it is fun. When your team is in the running for an award, I have found people cheering for each other more. Relays take on special meaning because they count double. For a swimmer like me who typically doesn't place, it allows me to feel like a part of an overall effort. Especially if my B relay can finish 10th and I help earn a point.
As for Mark Mattson's comment about not seeing the banner after the meet is over, I think that is a common problem with superteams. I know when I swam with a regular club, Virginia Masters, we hung our banner in the main pool where we train. They are there for team members to see their accomplishments each day. Other teams list these accomplishments on their website. When I swam in Arizona (a superclub), we used to take the banners we had won to our state meets and display them so folks could take pride in the group's accomplishments.
Given that the house of delegates voted the small, medium and large divisions away last year. If you don't like club and superclub categories, does anyone have another suggestion for improving scoring at nationals?
In response to Lindsay's question, "Why have club competition at all?"
Because it is fun. When your team is in the running for an award, I have found people cheering for each other more. Relays take on special meaning because they count double. For a swimmer like me who typically doesn't place, it allows me to feel like a part of an overall effort. Especially if my B relay can finish 10th and I help earn a point.
As for Mark Mattson's comment about not seeing the banner after the meet is over, I think that is a common problem with superteams. I know when I swam with a regular club, Virginia Masters, we hung our banner in the main pool where we train. They are there for team members to see their accomplishments each day. Other teams list these accomplishments on their website. When I swam in Arizona (a superclub), we used to take the banners we had won to our state meets and display them so folks could take pride in the group's accomplishments.
Given that the house of delegates voted the small, medium and large divisions away last year. If you don't like club and superclub categories, does anyone have another suggestion for improving scoring at nationals?
