I would hope the pool would be ready... scy nats are over 18 months away, lcm nats nearly 2 years... Plus, you have the benefit of building in the south where there's probably a larger construction window than, oh, say Chicago! :)
Still things can happen and a backup plan might not be a bad idea...
Greensboro is going to be a tough sell for me, but it should be decent location for those on the east coast. One location I'd like to see host Nationals some time is the Woollett Aquatics Center in Irvine. They've hosted a number of USA Swimming Nationals and recently hosted Pan Pacs. It looks to be a similar setup to Clovis with two 50 meter pools side-by-side. But I guess the bottom line is there needs to be someone willing to host the meet (hint to Nova masters!). Irvine would be pretty convenient to travel to with John Wayne and Long Beach airports both close and LAX a little bit farther.
All right, who woke up the Skip Education Conference fanatics?!?!?!?!??!?
I detect someone that is jealous of the success of the Southeastern Conference. :)
I wondered about Greensboro. There is a new aquatic complex being built as part of the Coliseum Complex.
Will the pool be ready? Butcher told me that they just started building it recently. Is there a back-up plan in place, if the facility isn't ready?
Greensboro Skyline
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Little info about Greensboro.
Greensboro, North Carolina is a medium-sized city, not small but not a big city like Atlanta. Greensboro has about 260,000 people and is actually bigger than Birmingham, AL. The combined metro region of Greensboro (The Piedmont Triad/Greensboro,Winston-Salem, High Point) has 1.6 million people so this is not a small town. Greensboro has a vibrant urban nightlife and is the third largest city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh. Greensboro is home to Lorillard Tobacco Company, maker of Newport cigarettes and the city is also home to fortune 500 company VF Corp, maker of Wranger, Lee jeans and other major apparel brands. The insurance division of Lincoln Financial is also headquartered in Greensboro. The city is home of the Atlantic Coast Conference and local officials have marketing the city as "Tournament Town" . In 1974 Greensboro host the Men's Final Four college basketball championship as well as many ACC basketball tournaments. The PGA Wyndham Championship is played here and next year the Greensboro Coliseum will host the 2011 U.S. Figure Skating Championship.
The 2012 championships will be held at the Greensboro Aquatic Center which is under construction at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. It will seat 2,500 people and will be 74,000 square feet.
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A link to the Greensboro USMS News Release is here:
www.usms.org/.../newsitem.php
If you are crafty with Google, you can find several articles and videos of local media that covered a press conference in Greensboro yesterday to announce the meet.
Similarly, a link to the USMS News Release for Omaha is here:
www.usms.org/.../newsitem.php
There is an Associated Press (AP) release about this meet that appeared in USA Today and others.
Jeff
If you are crafty with Google, you can find several articles and videos of local media that covered a press conference in Greensboro yesterday to announce the meet.
Or if you're just plain lazy:
www.myfox8.com/.../wghp-story-aquatic-100917,0,3315770.story
