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.
Thanks, Bill and Matteo, for your enthusiastic endorsement of my idea!
The next former Olympic freestyler who gives the concept a thumb's up is invited to join the three of us in the first national Pick Up Relay under the not yet recognized Thornton codicil to Subsection 1Y-006, subparagraph 3-5, the USMS Handbook of Legal But Dubious Swimming Behavior.
I should not that we need to add a special clause in here somewhere that we cannot be banned for life if our attempts at "picking up" relay members are somehow misconstrued as being something they are most decidedly not, whether we are or are not under the influence of Ambien at the time of said recruitment.
Motion to pass? Aye.
Second? Aye.
Codicil adopted for further consideration by the competition and cheating committee.
Thanks, Bill and Matteo, for your enthusiastic endorsement of my idea!
The next former Olympic freestyler who gives the concept a thumb's up is invited to join the three of us in the first national Pick Up Relay under the not yet recognized Thornton codicil to Subsection 1Y-006, subparagraph 3-5, the USMS Handbook of Legal But Dubious Swimming Behavior.
I should not that we need to add a special clause in here somewhere that we cannot be banned for life if our attempts at "picking up" relay members are somehow misconstrued as being something they are most decidedly not, whether we are or are not under the influence of Ambien at the time of said recruitment.
Motion to pass? Aye.
Second? Aye.
Codicil adopted for further consideration by the competition and cheating committee.
