I am guessing this will be the fastest of the Masters SCM meets. Who is coming to town ? Who is ready to suit up one last time ?
Friday, December 4, 2009
Warm-up 8:00 a.m., Meet starts at 9:00 a.m.
Check in for 1500 m Freestyle closes at 8:30 a.m.
1. 1500 m Freestyle (Women, Men)
2. Women’s 200 m Individual Medley
3. Men’s 200 m Individual Medley
4. Women’s 100 m Freestyle
5. Men’s 100 m Freestyle
6. Women’s 200 m Backstroke
7. Men’s 200 m Backstroke
8. *800 m Freestyle Relay* (Women, Men, Mixed)
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Warm-up at 8:00 a.m., Meet starts at 9:00 a.m.
Check in for the 400 m Freestyle closes at 8:30 a.m.
9. Women’s 400 m Freestyle
10. Men’s 400 m Freestyle
11. Women’s 50 m Butterfly
12. Men’s 50 m Butterfly
13. 400m Freestyle Relay (Women, Men, Mixed)
14. Women’s 100 m Backstroke
15. Men’s 100 m Backstroke
16. Women’s 100 m Breaststroke
17. Men’s 100 Breaststroke
18. Women’s 200 m Butterfly
19. Men’s 200 m Butterfly
20. *200 m Medley Relay* (Women, Men, Mixed)
21. Women’s 50 m Freestyle
22. Men’s 50 m Freestyle
23. 400 m Individual Medley (Women, Men)
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Warm-up at 8:00 a.m., Meet starts at 9:00 a.m.
Check in for the 800 m Freestyle closes at 8:30 a.m.
24. 800 m Freestyle (Women, Men)
25. Women’s 100 m Butterfly
26. Men’s 100 m Butterfly
27. Women’s 50 m Breaststroke
28. Men’s 50 m Breaststroke
29. 400m Medley Relay (Women, Men, Mixed)
30. Women’s 200 m Freestyle
31. Men’s 200 m Freestyle
32. Women’s 200 m Breaststroke
33. Men’s 200 m Breaststroke
34. Women’s 50 m Backstroke
35. Men’s 50 m Backstroke
36. Women’s 100 m Individual Medley
37. Men’s 100 m Individual Medley
38. 200 m Freestyle Relay (Women, Men, Mixed)
Personally, I do not get why we (USMS) continue to insist on holding the SCY Nationals as the premier event each year.
No one in the world gets SC Yard times except for Americans.
Probably not in my lifetime, but I hope some day the powers that be will see the light and switch it.
National Spring Championship meet - short course meters - just like the rest of the world.
The training for SCM & SCY is no different and it certainly could be done.
Perhaps allowing extra pool time at warmup or the day before the meet starts so athletes can familiarize themselves with the pool.
Don't be blaming TPTB: our current rule book already says that Spring nationals can be SCY or SCM:
"104.1 Meet Categories
USMS national championship meets shall be awarded in the following categories and
held during the following dates:
104.1.1 Short Course (25 Yards or 25 Meters)—Between April 15 and May 31."
Perhaps Jeff Roddin or someone else from the Championship Committee could comment further, but I suspect one big reason Spring nationals is always SCY is that there probably aren't that many facilities in the country that have two 8-lane SCM competition pools and another warm-down pool for 2000 competitors. (I think I heard that it was SCM one year, though.)
If there IS such a place, they absolutely should apply to have Spring nationals there. It would be so cool.
Although it will be fun to race Mike in person and Erik virtually, I'm not swimming any freestyle events. And thankfully I have aged out of that cut-throat age group, although 45-49 is awfully fast, too...
Personally, I do not get why we (USMS) continue to insist on holding the SCY Nationals as the premier event each year.
No one in the world gets SC Yard times except for Americans.
Probably not in my lifetime, but I hope some day the powers that be will see the light and switch it.
National Spring Championship meet - short course meters - just like the rest of the world.
The training for SCM & SCY is no different and it certainly could be done.
Perhaps allowing extra pool time at warmup or the day before the meet starts so athletes can familiarize themselves with the pool.
Don't be blaming TPTB: our current rule book already says that Spring nationals can be SCY or SCM:
"104.1 Meet Categories
USMS national championship meets shall be awarded in the following categories and
held during the following dates:
104.1.1 Short Course (25 Yards or 25 Meters)—Between April 15 and May 31."
Perhaps Jeff Roddin or someone else from the Championship Committee could comment further, but I suspect one big reason Spring nationals is always SCY is that there probably aren't that many facilities in the country that have two 8-lane SCM competition pools and another warm-down pool for 2000 competitors. (I think I heard that it was SCM one year, though.)
If there IS such a place, they absolutely should apply to have Spring nationals there. It would be so cool.
Although it will be fun to race Mike in person and Erik virtually, I'm not swimming any freestyle events. And thankfully I have aged out of that cut-throat age group, although 45-49 is awfully fast, too...
