Date Posted:Wednesday March 16 2005 Author: perplexed Author Host/IP: NoHost / 24.244.179.121 Subject: Re: Controversy In reply to:
Dissapointed
's message, "Controversy" on Monday March 07 2005
Swimmers work consistently hard at practice, get great coaching and get faster....what is so difficult to understand about why they are selected for a team......????
If swimming is going down in The Bahamas.....why then are there more registered swimmers this year than over the past several years??? Why have the Coaches made the time standards faster....and the swimmers are achieving the times? Why were we 2nd overall at CARIFTA last year......why are we able to field a waterpolo team for the second consecutive CARIFTA.....why did we have 4 swimmers at the Olympics this year.......why are records being continually broken.....
BECAUSE......aquatics has never been stronger.....because the young people are working harder under great coaching.....because this BSF is about all the athletes....
in swimming and waterpolo.....competitive, learn to swim, masters, waterpolo......all are embraced by this BSF.....
>This message is obviously about the controversial
>selection for the CARIFTA team for 2005 in Curacao.How
>is it that all of a sudden when a certain clubs
>becomes a club again, the majority of their swimmers
>are chosen over someone else's? Let's take this group
>by group. 11-12 girls: a new swimmer has suddenly come
>into the light out of nowhere and who is she? Is she
>any good? Yes. Is she Swift? Questionable. But even
>more important is she Bahamian and does her
>information match the BSF rules that are so often
>bended and looked over for SOME swimmers? 11-12 boys:
>No comment. 13-14 girls: Most of the persons chosen
>were expected but the 5th and final selection was
>DEFINITELY a problem. Were 6 swimmers for such a
>strong age group not considered? And furthermore, did
>the last swimmer make a "successful" time in which she
>dominated two other swimmer? And what about the
>Oh-so-important relays which we get most of our
>points? You can't win a relay with 800 free. The BSF
>needs to ask themselves which is more important, 1 or
>18 points? 13-14 boys: No comment. 15-17 girls: No
>comment. 15-17 boys: This is the second time that a
>swimmer has been cheated out of a National team and
>this time another "outside" swimmer blocked his place.
>Also a senior was beat out by a junior, again , of the
>same 'mystery' club that surprisingly MOST swimmers
>beat out.
>
>All in all, no wonder competitive swimming is taking
>such a fall if the BSF allows such foolishness! And
>some of the strongest swimmers are getting the door
>slammed in their faces while other swimmers are
>getting a V.I.P. introduction to what others worked so
>hard for.
