I remember this discussion from an earlier time and one of the problems was that many of the pools that would be used for such an event are college pools and school would be in session during that time.
As an alternative, come to the SCM championships at Long Beach in December. It is a great pool although "old". I believe it was built for the '68 trials. We always have swimmers from other parts of the country swim at the meet. I think with a little encouragement, it could become a de-facto national meet.
I like the idea of a virtual national championship. To simulate the conditions at, say, the Woodlands in August, you could require that the swimmers hang out in the sauna between events.
i thought for the virtual scm championships they were going to take the results from the largest 4 zone meets, as opposed to the top 10 which is the top 10 times in every scm meet.
maybe one of the zone championships should rename itself as the national championship
Dixie zone championships are in New Orleans at Tulane
or
this one
11/30/2007 - 12/2/2007
SPMA SCM Championships - Long Beach, CA
SCM; Julie Heather, 626-296-1841, registrar@spma.net; www.spma.net; Sanctioned by SP LMSC; Pre-entry & Deck-entry
A report on SCM vitual national championship will probably be given at USAS/USMS convention in September 2007 in CA. There are a lot of new SCM Championship meets in the Fall, including the one to be held 1-2-Dec-2007 at University of Missouri-Columbia which will be the "Missouri SCM Championship".
USMS does not have a lot of bids for the 2 exisiting national championship SC or LCM. Plus, there are provision to have SCM instead of SCY in the Spring nationals.
What is the difference from a virtual national championship and USMS Top Ten SCM ranking ? Why go through the expense of having an actual meet; other then the motiviation to swim next to another fast swimmer ?
Good discussion topic (despite being a repeat from the past).
Anthony Thompson, Missouri Valley Masters
