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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Practicing at multiple pools has nothing to do with it, at least according to the rules. (For example, Indy Swim Fit is a local team even though it has multiple pools.)
The rule is "a Regional Club consists of a club made up of those swimmers who represent a club at nationals, but at competitions within their LMSC, they compete for an entity or subgroup (such as a workout group) that is different than the one they compete with at nationals." And a local club is a club that is not a regional club.
Thanks for the clarification Chris. I pulled up some Zones results, and it looks like we don't have any division of teams in our Zone.
Practicing at multiple pools has nothing to do with it, at least according to the rules. (For example, Indy Swim Fit is a local team even though it has multiple pools.)
The rule is "a Regional Club consists of a club made up of those swimmers who represent a club at nationals, but at competitions within their LMSC, they compete for an entity or subgroup (such as a workout group) that is different than the one they compete with at nationals." And a local club is a club that is not a regional club.
Thanks for the clarification Chris. I pulled up some Zones results, and it looks like we don't have any division of teams in our Zone.
