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Date Posted: Wednesday March 09 2005
Author: Splish Splash
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 24.244.159.106
Subject: Re: The real issue.
In reply to: OldTimer 's message, "The real issue." on Wednesday March 09 2005

Just food for thought....if the rule book had been left as it was.........we may not have had a Team at all........the Family Point System made it next to impossible for swimmers to compete.......this rule book is not engraved in stone but is better than the old rule book that was full of contradictions and punitive rules......the rules are open for review and discussion.......In the past athletes needed to come back for Nationals so the Federations could fairly assess the fitness and conditioning of the athlete......this was before the electronic age where we can now find results on line almost as fast as if we were sitting at the edge of the track or the pool....Consider this ......if a swimmer is abroad and training for an international meet should the athlete have to break training, travel and spend money to to compete in Nationals????? Doesn't make sense to me. The old rule book also had a rule that all Clubs had to hold one meet a year at the 50m facility? Should Freeport have to hold a meet at the BKKAC?.....the real issue isn't the rules, the Nationals, whether the athletes are Bahamians (they are) or whether the parents have broken a sweat on deck or in the kitchen...(by the way there are many parents and guardians who never make it on deck!)The real issue seems to be that swimmers are training more and getting, as they should, better, and some athletes did not in the final evaluation of the Coaches make the cut (so to speak)....
This BSF is run by hard working parents....This BSF is and always has been open to frank discussion.....but not heresay........finally a Bahamian is a Bahamian........is a Bahamian.
Shouldn't we strive to always put forth our best?.....Should an athlete have to take part in the Nationals? Does the expenditure of money by Parents (as the writer below suggests, be taken into account when selecting a Team........this attitude is scary....where does that leave the less fortunate but talented athlete.....???? Should the swimmer from the Family Island be given more consideration because he or she had to spend more money to travel to take part in the Nationals??? For many years the swimmers had to cover the major part of the cost of the CARIFTA and CISC trips.......for many years swimmers were not even allowed the opportunity to travel to the regional age group meets....but the BSF officials travelled.....This BSF has a full competitive squad ready to travel.......and a Water Polo squad for the second year running......this BSF is and always has been all about the advancement of sport through hard work and a dedicated group of swimmers!


>We are being bamboozled, hoodwinked etc. The real
>issue is not whether these kids are Bahamian, because
>they are. And as a Bahamian they have a right to
>compete. But the question is when can they compete?
>In Bahamian Track and Field our athletes that train
>abroad cannot represent the Bahamas in International
>competition unless they compete in Nationals.
>Swimming had this rule until it was convenientlly
>written out. The real issue is that the rules, not
>some, but most have been struck off.
>
>This issue is way too big for me to sit idly by.
>Parents and swimmers spend hundreds of dollars and
>hours each year in support of this sport and athletes
>train year after year in hopes of making a National
>team and these same parents, athletes and teams spend
>lots of money each year to support the BSF through
>dues. These "foreign" athletes have spent nothing to
>swim here. Their parents havn't spent time in the hot
>sun timing, spent time in the hot kitchen selling
>food, spent hours in the timing booth making sure the
>times are right. Spent hours setting up meets or
>officiating. Even if they are a part of SWIFT, SWIFT
>doesnt hold meets nor to they have any scheduled.
>SWIFT doesnt contribute to competiteness in the sport,
>they do nothing except create contraversy. And now
>the BSF, who the clubs support, are going to send them
>off, using our BSF funds and Bahamian tax dollars to
>subsidize their trip.
>
>Again, i have no problem with them swimming, but i
>think they should just at least have swum at
>Nationals, come to a few more meets throughout the
>year just in support of our other clubs.
>
>This may be heresay but i have to mention it. A
>situation came up with 2 of the swimmers at the team
>selection meeting on Sunday. Algernon Cargill
>suggested that a one swimmer should be chosen over
>another because the swimmers parents were more
>supportive of the BSF.
>
>The BSF like all the major clubs used to be run by
>parents. The only club that is not parent run is
>SWIFT and it just so happend that SWIFT is running the
>BSF ie: Coaches recieve BSF meet summons and meet
>results from Nancy Knowles who is not a BSF official.
>It is up to the parents to take back this federation.
>The rules in the rulebook were carefully thought out
>and put in place for a reason, just to to be sticken
>off by some uncaring person. What are these guys
>gonna do next start crossing out our constitution.

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