Age Group Committee Meeting Link and Agenda March 6th 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
Hi Age Group Committee Members,
We will have an Age Group Committee meeting on Wednesday, March 6th at 8:00 pm.
We will discuss multiple items.
· Review
of Pac Coast All Star Meet (team travel or parent travel moving forward)
o Discuss
Incident in the Hotel
o Going
forward should this trip continue to be team travel or parent travel?
o Potential
Plan for next year for team practice and itinerary
o How do we
get our best athletes to participate?
· Review
of SCS All Star Festival in Las Vegas (location and venue next year)
o Meet
structure and potential changes to events offered (13-14 100 IM instead of 400
IM and a 300 Free instead of 500 Free)
o Discuss a
change in selection process for coaches going through the Geo Committees
o Make sure
the itinerary, expectations, and benefits are agreed upon and stated well
in advance (on the application)
o Plan for
team bonding Friday night?
· Review
of Age Group Coaches Clinic (potentially starting on Friday and ending on
Saturday morning next year)
o Review
speakers
o Ideas for
speakers/topics moving forward
o Discuss a
change in the clinic to Friday afternoon into a Saturday morning conclusion
o Is it
possible or valuable to try to expand the clinic to entice more SCS coaches to
participate?
· Debate
and decision on any protection for the Festival Meet going forward
o Should SCS
allow sanctions for other meets on this weekend?
o Should
swimmers who apply and are selected to All Star Teams be restricted from other
SCS Meets that weekend?
o Does
having other meets that weekend strain officials and coaches and limit
participation in the Festival/Age Group Coaches Clinic weekend?
· Third
site for Summer Champs...options moving forward
o Options
for a third site
o Should we
just keep two sites?
o Should the
Elite Meet act as a third site even though it is a different weekend with
faster time standards?
· Review
of Summer rule changes from 2023....do we want to continue these changes in
2024
o Prelims
Slowest to Fastest at Championship Meets
o Top heat
of Distance Races at Finals
o Coaches
Check In instead of Positive Check In
o Bonus
Events
The link for the meeting is below:
Topic: SCS Age Group Committee Meeting
Time: Feb 28, 2024 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81560790069?pwd=pCyNwltLavd5JP3hEBMsSbonMrBQ3M.1
Meeting ID: 815 6079 0069
Passcode: 626342