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 like statistics and all, but I don't get your point for repeatedly pointing out someone is a minority. I didn't understand why you made the point the first time, and I don't understand why it needed to be repeated.
He pointed out that while he is part of this minority, this group is also the most vocal and the most active so it is easy to overlook the Majority of swimmers who do not compete at nationals. Its a far cry from saying this group is less important. This group is essentially the squeaky wheel and generally discounts / overlooks the needs and opinions of the swimmers not at nationals.
Face it, if you make a change to the scoring to lessen the impact on larger teams "all star" teams would pop up and we would be having a similar discussion while doing nothing that benefits the majority of USMS Swimmers.
I like statistics and all, but I don't get your point for repeatedly pointing out someone is a minority. I didn't understand why you made the point the first time, and I don't understand why it needed to be repeated.
He pointed out that while he is part of this minority, this group is also the most vocal and the most active so it is easy to overlook the Majority of swimmers who do not compete at nationals. Its a far cry from saying this group is less important. This group is essentially the squeaky wheel and generally discounts / overlooks the needs and opinions of the swimmers not at nationals.
Face it, if you make a change to the scoring to lessen the impact on larger teams "all star" teams would pop up and we would be having a similar discussion while doing nothing that benefits the majority of USMS Swimmers.
