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.
