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As discussed at our last business meeting on March,
11th, 2009 at the King County Aquatic Center, a task
force was formed to pursue ideas that could help to enhance our NW
Section meet. The task force was successful in generating
some thoughtful ideas, and has provided us with the following
suggestions for the summer of 2009:
- Retain the current time standards.
- Remove all bonus swims.
- Raise the number of time trials from two to three.
Please also keep in mind, that these changes will take effect
for the 2009 SUMMER MEET ONLY.
Due to the fact that these changes must be voted on by our
Section between our bi-annual business meetings, the Section
officers as well as the task force have crafted the following
procedures and guidelines in order to vote PRIOR
to this summer’s meet.
- Email voting will begin May 1st, 2009 and will
remain open until the beginning of the entry period May 15,
2009—12:00 a.m. PST (one vote per team).
- The pros and cons of this motion have been provided by the task
force for your review.
- Electronic debate is encouraged and may be done so by simply
hitting the “reply all” to this email.
- Because these are extraordinary circumstances, a quorum of 70
votes is required. This represents half of the teams that attended
the Spring Section Meet.
- A simple majority is required to carry this motion.
- Votes must be emailed to our Secretary, Jeff Gudman: jgudman7150@msn.com,
by May 15, 2009—12:00 am PST, to be counted. Votes will be
counted by the Sectional Secretary and verified by the Chairman.
Please send Jeff your vote indicating either, “yes” or
“no”. A
“yes” vote will pass the motion, a “no”
vote will reject it.
- You will receive an email on May 18, 2009 informing you of the
outcome of the vote.
- If a quorum of 70 votes is not achieved, the suggestions of the
task force will default for debate at the summer meeting. As a
reminder, this meeting is scheduled to be held at 1 pm on Tuesday,
July, 21, 2009—one hour PRIOR to the general
meeting.
Please also include your name as well as the name of your club.
Listed below are the pros and cons of the motion according to
the task force. Pease be aware, the outcome of your vote
MAY CHANGE the format of the meet. Thank you in advance
for your participation.
Western Region Section Vote per recommendation of
Times/Meet Format Task Force:
Motion:
Task Force recommends for 2009 Summer (LCM) we retain current
qualification times for but remove all bonus swims. In addition,
the number of time trials shall be raised from two to three.
-This is only for 2009 summer meet only- not
Spring
2005 Spring SCY-
844
2005 Summer LCM- 689
2006 Spring SCY-
???
2006 Summer LCM 840
2007 Spring SCY-
890
2007 Summer LCM- 790
2008 Spring LCM-
701
2008 Summer LCM- 816
2009 Spring SCY-
995
2009 Summer LCM-
ALL TIMELINES ARE CALCULATED ON A ZERO SECOND
INTERVAL
-This assumes well-executed chaser starts
throughout session (i.e. best case scenario)
2006 Summer Prelim
Timelines-
840 athletes- 792 out of 3711 entries were bonus swims (approx
21%)
Wed 4:19
Thu
4:48
Fri 5:29
2007 Summer Prelim
Timelines-
790 athletes- 488 out of 3372 entries were bonus swims (approx
15%)
Wed
4:12
Thu
4:08
Fri 4:49
2008 Summer Prelim
Timelines-
816 athletes-505 out of 3523 entries were bonus swims (approx
15%)
Wed
4:01
Thu
4:03
Fri 5:02
2009 Summer LCM
Factors to consider:
- With current number of bonus swims the threshold of
athletes appears to be between 850-875 athletes that will force
prelims into an A/B Flight format.
- PNS Championships are being held on the same dates as the
summer Sectional meet at Federal Way, WA.
- There were several major teams that did not attend the
2009 SCY Spring Sectional that will be attending this summer
(Spring Sectional had 995 athletes)
Cons
- Motion reduces number of swims in the meet for entry
level swimmer.
Pro
- Motion responds to the growth of qualifiers within the
Section
- Motion attempts to prevent A/B Flight prelim
sessions
- Motion does not make qual times faster
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