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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I for one kind of agree with Doug...maybe if we treated people with a little bit more respect on these forums (makes me wonder how some of you treat people around your pools) we might actually get more people out to some of the meets. Isn't the idea to promote swimming? Not run people off? Just wondering...
Go ahead and blast away...
How many people on the forums do compete? How many don't compete?
I would say the majority of people on the forums are very nice to people at the pools we swim. I know Geek and Fort. On the forum, they can come across as brash, arrogant, snotty. But in person, they are 2 of the nicest people I have ever met(just using you two as an example) So, I don't think it's safe to say our forum behavior is how we behave away from the computer.
I for one kind of agree with Doug...maybe if we treated people with a little bit more respect on these forums (makes me wonder how some of you treat people around your pools) we might actually get more people out to some of the meets. Isn't the idea to promote swimming? Not run people off? Just wondering...
Go ahead and blast away...
How many people on the forums do compete? How many don't compete?
I would say the majority of people on the forums are very nice to people at the pools we swim. I know Geek and Fort. On the forum, they can come across as brash, arrogant, snotty. But in person, they are 2 of the nicest people I have ever met(just using you two as an example) So, I don't think it's safe to say our forum behavior is how we behave away from the computer.
