With the continued growth in USMS membership, I would submit that it's time to eliminate the regional teams at Nationals. Case in point: NCMS sent a "team" of 123 swimmers to Atlanta, enough to enter A, B, C, and D relays in many events (e.g. the mens 35+ 200 free relay in which our club team placed 13th behind eight regional teams). It's been argued that the formation of regional teams allows more swimmers to participate in relays, yet local clubs from North Carolina sent as many as thirty or more athletes and could have entered relays on their own as our club (with eight swimmers) did. Swim with the guys you actually train with.
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That would encourage teams to recruite only those who can place and discourage those who are slower from participating or encourage them to swim unattached. Thereby keeping their numbers down.
This is supposed to be fun for all not just the select few.
i don't know of any team/club/lmsc/workout group within USMS that takes team competition that seriously..... maybe i'm wrong.
anyone that considers a regional club or a local club with 100+ members representing them at a meet against another with "competition" has a strange way of defining that word. (awkward sentence... i know)
That would encourage teams to recruite only those who can place and discourage those who are slower from participating or encourage them to swim unattached. Thereby keeping their numbers down.
This is supposed to be fun for all not just the select few.
i don't know of any team/club/lmsc/workout group within USMS that takes team competition that seriously..... maybe i'm wrong.
anyone that considers a regional club or a local club with 100+ members representing them at a meet against another with "competition" has a strange way of defining that word. (awkward sentence... i know)
