So, now that we are on the countdown to May 09 - who is coming and what do you plan to swim?
This will be my first US Master's National meet, and it happens to be happening in my back yard (at least very close to where I grew up and swam USA club). Over is San Luis Obispo now, but it's a short hop, skip, and jump over the foothills to Clovis!
NE Masters puts on a lot of meets. Their SCY meet at Harvard seems to draw about 800 swimmers or so. Maybe it's big enough?
Actually, I think the lack of Nationals in the Northeast is a big part of the reason NE SCYs is so big: for a lot of folks that is their season meet. (And Colonies SCYs is too close in time, otherwise, I think it would get more of those folks too. If it were much closer to Nationals I think it would be interesting to see if the turnout went up.)
But I think New York is in the same boat as DC on pool space. Not enough warmup/warmdown space, even if there is room for 2 courses.
NE Masters puts on a lot of meets. Their SCY meet at Harvard seems to draw about 800 swimmers or so. Maybe it's big enough?
Actually, I think the lack of Nationals in the Northeast is a big part of the reason NE SCYs is so big: for a lot of folks that is their season meet. (And Colonies SCYs is too close in time, otherwise, I think it would get more of those folks too. If it were much closer to Nationals I think it would be interesting to see if the turnout went up.)
But I think New York is in the same boat as DC on pool space. Not enough warmup/warmdown space, even if there is room for 2 courses.
