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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It's Fort's ultimate nightmare - a super team in the Dixie Zone.
I don't understand why she gives the DZ a bad rap over one meet in north carolina. She should be giving NCMS hell, not the entire DZ. She should have realized that ncms is the problem, since it is one large regional team.
They conspired together so that her swims would disappear from the datebase, so that she would have to redo her efforts in order to knock someone from ncms down the rankings. It was a plot by a large, cheatin regonial team to damage the pysche of a star usms athlete.
It's Fort's ultimate nightmare - a super team in the Dixie Zone.
I don't understand why she gives the DZ a bad rap over one meet in north carolina. She should be giving NCMS hell, not the entire DZ. She should have realized that ncms is the problem, since it is one large regional team.
They conspired together so that her swims would disappear from the datebase, so that she would have to redo her efforts in order to knock someone from ncms down the rankings. It was a plot by a large, cheatin regonial team to damage the pysche of a star usms athlete.
