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.
I think it explains why they can't do it and have it count as a legal, scored swim.
True, but I was looking for a more philosophical beyond the rule oriented "that's the way we score things" explanation ...
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.
I only adopted this approach as a counterpoint to Geek. Plus, there appeared to be a striking absence of such women on the forum, so I felt compelled to fill the void.
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I know Geek and Fort. On the forum, they can come across as brash, arrogant, snotty.
Bill and Leslie: first official nominees for The 2010 Mr. and Ms. USMS Snotty Forum Poster Awards (informally referred to as The Snooties).
You go, guys!
The Snooty Trophy will be based on this:
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Bill and Leslie: first official nominees for The 2010 Mr. and Ms. USMS Snotty Forum Poster Awards (informally referred to as The Snooties).
You go, guys!
I can see no valid reason why we can't have a Snotty Forum Poster relay. Well, apart from the fact that Geek lives in the Dixie Zone ...
All that is required is filling out a form and sending in some money. Here is the one for Virginia, as an example:
www.vaswim.org/.../CLUB MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION 2010.pdf
Keep in mind the club is supposed to be located within the confines of that LMSC. Meaning 4 people from North Dakota cannot register a club in the VA LMSC. The rulebook is clear that a swimmer need not live within the LMSC boundaries, but the club must be located in the LMSC. That tells me the address for the primary club rep must be a mailing address within the LMSC. Here is the cut and paste from the rulebook:
201.3.3 A swimmer shall register in the LMSC in which the club being represented
is located. The swimmer need not reside within the LMSC territory.
Rich, besides Kleenex, the waist-mounted dispenser would need to have some sort of bottle with a hypoallergenic emollient. But I like the way you are thinking here! (Lord, I hope Ahelee isn't reading this thread. How soon before you and I join the List of Malefactors banned for life for inappropriate jocularity, or, as it is also sometimes called, word rape?)
Could the rest of you please take a moment to visit and vote on my just established poll here?
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
Thanks!
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.
To put things in perspective, less than 5% of US Masters Swimmers participate at Nationals. In other words, all the consternation regarding Regional vs. Local clubs, relays, and the like is small potatoes for the vast majority of members. It's not really worth it to get worked-up about these things, the focus should be on how to strengthen masters swimming programs and get more people in the water. If some wish to compete that's great, but what is more important is that swimmers of all ages and abilities find a place where they can get fit, meet new friends, and become better athletes.
Thanks for putting things back in perspective for me. Think I'll sleep in tomorrow and skip practice. Throw away the clippers. Stop worrying about my dry land program. What a relief.
