WRMS braved the snow and winter conditions driving to Pointe Claire for the annual 4 day double ended AA & AAA meet. This year the meet attracted more then 1200 swimmers competing, all in all the meet was ran with any problems. Big shout out and congrats to Pointe Claire and it's parents/officials for running such an incredible meet at such a beautiful facility. For those of you that haven't been to this pool or meet I encourage you to enter one of the meets PC hosts during the year. The 10 lane 50 meter pool with a 6 lane 50 meter warm up pool is truly world class. Having 12 25 meter warm up/down lanes running through every session including the session warm up is unheard of and perfect for swimmers who don't race till mid session, allowing them to sleep in extra and come for a later start time. With A & B finals (10 lanes for each final) for both AA & AAA meets many WRMS swimmers were getting second swims.
WRMS Scores:
AA (Slower meet) 13th out of 28 scoring teams with 217.5 points
AAA (Faster meet) 10th out of 31 scoring teams with 180 points
This meet is attracting many Ontario teams such as London, Mississauga, Oakville, Markham, and Burlington. Note there were other Ontario teams at the meet (to many to list). Which leads me into the next part of this blog.
I'm glad to see teams deciding to opt out of Division Team Champs in Ontario (1,2,3) as at least how I see it the definition of "Team" isn't 30, 40, or 50 swimmers. To me "Team" is every single swimmer on that "Team". Having said that I understand Team Champs is about picking the best number of athletes to represent the team at this meet. The major problem is (and I've scene it happen in 4 different clubs I've been with) parents/swimmers having hurt feelings over not being selected or a swimmer not being selected that should have. This drama starts up in October 2 months before the meet and drags out through the season when parents/swimmers recall the meet.
I see meets like Pointe Claire and the Camo meet better alternatives for clubs as they can take more swimmers, still do a travel meet, have amazing swims, and the meets are in December which is perfect for block one performances. These two meets are perfect for large clubs who would have to nail biting task of trying to select 50 swimmers out of the clubs 500+ membership, instead some of these larger clubs are taking over 100 swimmers (double what you can take to Div 1 team champs) to PC or Camo and no one is having hurt feelings.
I'm not saying Team Champs is a bad meet, it's always been fun, loud and most times teams pull together and swim like a team, however trying to break the "Team" up and only select a number of swimmers doesn't and hasn't ever sat well with me.
Below are Results from both the AA & AAA meets from PC as well a few pictures. A full album of pictures I took during the meet can be found on my Facebook page.
AAA Results
AAA Team Scores
AA Results
AA Team Scores
Pointe Claire Comp Pool
Some of the WRMS swimmers that attended PC 2014
Sporting my new WRMS sweater
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