As a swimmer from a backwater LMSC that virtually never has enough people at USMS meets to field even the slowest of relay teams, I would like to see team orphans like myself be allowed to aggregate with others of my ilk to form a rag-tag band of misfit style "Pick Up" relay teams at masters meets.
I personally believe this would foster camaraderie and new friendships as people like me, who practice in Amish mudholes, would be able to swim on a relay team with, say, Cayjuns from Baton Rouge, who swim in oil-slickened bayous littered with oxygen-starved crawdads.
I would furthermore and personally like such relays to "count" for Top 10 consideration, provided they were made up exclusively of unattached swimmers--or people who are the sole representatives of their "teams"--i.e., bona fide hardship cases, like me, who truly have no other options for swimming relays at most meets.
What say ye? Please take my simple poll; USMS bigwigs, please take note of my simple poll, especially if it comes back (as I hope) with a resounding and enthusiastic endorsement of the hopes and aspirations of mud-and-oil-coated misfits throughout the nation!
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There were only 4 of us there. Aside from swimming on relays that didn't place, we tried to watch each other's races as much as possible. And the ragtag Team Hottub group was superb in this respect -- tons of cheering and support.
ragtag? Are you effen kidding me...the original nucleus was all there with perhaps the omission of Borky, Kyra and Barb!
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There were only 4 of us there. Aside from swimming on relays that didn't place, we tried to watch each other's races as much as possible. And the ragtag Team Hottub group was superb in this respect -- tons of cheering and support.
ragtag? Are you effen kidding me...the original nucleus was all there with perhaps the omission of Borky, Kyra and Barb!
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