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Nationals Relays

Allen Stark
From other threads it's seemed some people from small teams feel left out at Nationals because they don't have enough people for relays. How about not counting the relay points for the Small Team Awards and letting the small teams pool swimmers for relays. Pooled relays would not count for records or Top Ten but could win medals.
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  • Jim, Thanks for the clarification and as scary as it may be I agree with you! I think those instances where people do jump around a lot are rare (hopefully) and would prefer to see addressed individually rather than via some type of "rule" via USMS. As a side note, I do speak from some experience! I was one of the original organizers of th UCSB reunion team but did not "jump ship" because I felt committed to the Colorado team that I had been organizing that year (Tempe...we brought about 100 swimmers). Needless to say I got a lot of grief from my colleg buddies (dont' say anything Shaf!). Also, for the first couple of years when I got back into masters swimming my wife and I opted not to swim for RMM but stay with our "local" team (Vail Swimming). I got a lot of grief for that as well but only made the move when the local club pretty much bombed out!
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  • Jim, Thanks for the clarification and as scary as it may be I agree with you! I think those instances where people do jump around a lot are rare (hopefully) and would prefer to see addressed individually rather than via some type of "rule" via USMS. As a side note, I do speak from some experience! I was one of the original organizers of th UCSB reunion team but did not "jump ship" because I felt committed to the Colorado team that I had been organizing that year (Tempe...we brought about 100 swimmers). Needless to say I got a lot of grief from my colleg buddies (dont' say anything Shaf!). Also, for the first couple of years when I got back into masters swimming my wife and I opted not to swim for RMM but stay with our "local" team (Vail Swimming). I got a lot of grief for that as well but only made the move when the local club pretty much bombed out!
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