Rumor has it that some teams were recruiting outside there LMSC for swimmers at nationals. What do you think of this.
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Regarding "national" teams for Worlds: The team would have to be associated with one LMSC. Whatever registrar handles the registrations for this national team might just resign. Or you'll have to come up with some hazard pay.
After having gone through registrartions and club changes for the recent Nationals and the headaches that entailed (Tracy and the Marks, Gill and Moore, can vouch for this), I wouldn't want to deal with it on a mega scale for Worlds. You'd be getting people transfering LMSCs, to the national club before, and back to their local LMSC and club after.
Mega clubs are not, in my opinion, in the best interests of Masters swimming. The two largest LMSCs thrive because of the variety of clubs that are available for swimmers.
We have swimmers from all over the country. Many start here, move away, but stay affiliated with their same club. We have swimmers who work out with one club, but compete for another. It's Masters, it's flexible.
I don't think it is correct to be recruiting people away from other clubs, however. It is not in the spirit of Masters swimming.
Regarding "national" teams for Worlds: The team would have to be associated with one LMSC. Whatever registrar handles the registrations for this national team might just resign. Or you'll have to come up with some hazard pay.
After having gone through registrartions and club changes for the recent Nationals and the headaches that entailed (Tracy and the Marks, Gill and Moore, can vouch for this), I wouldn't want to deal with it on a mega scale for Worlds. You'd be getting people transfering LMSCs, to the national club before, and back to their local LMSC and club after.
Mega clubs are not, in my opinion, in the best interests of Masters swimming. The two largest LMSCs thrive because of the variety of clubs that are available for swimmers.
We have swimmers from all over the country. Many start here, move away, but stay affiliated with their same club. We have swimmers who work out with one club, but compete for another. It's Masters, it's flexible.
I don't think it is correct to be recruiting people away from other clubs, however. It is not in the spirit of Masters swimming.
