Chris,
i remember discussing the change of ages for relays in SCY, but I don't remember ever actually trying it. Does anyone know if we ever actually did SCY with sum of the ages?
Betsy - to answer your question, Skip Thompson posted this on another thread:
There was a time for only one year, that SCY relays used the cumulative ages and that was 1986. This proposal was used as a result of the FINA decision to use this approach starting with the 1986 year. I remember the 1986 Short Course Nationals at Indian River CC in Fort Pierce, used this approach and because swimmers were not used to it, there were 166 scratches from pre-entered relays. At the 1986 USAS Convention it was voted back to use the youngest swimmer to determine age groups and we have been using this method since that time.
Chris,
i remember discussing the change of ages for relays in SCY, but I don't remember ever actually trying it. Does anyone know if we ever actually did SCY with sum of the ages?
Betsy - to answer your question, Skip Thompson posted this on another thread:
There was a time for only one year, that SCY relays used the cumulative ages and that was 1986. This proposal was used as a result of the FINA decision to use this approach starting with the 1986 year. I remember the 1986 Short Course Nationals at Indian River CC in Fort Pierce, used this approach and because swimmers were not used to it, there were 166 scratches from pre-entered relays. At the 1986 USAS Convention it was voted back to use the youngest swimmer to determine age groups and we have been using this method since that time.
