I too support  the move to later in Feb.  This does not necessarily mean I'll attend more of the meets, but in the event that I do, I would prefer the extra practice time.
Thanks, Kate

On 9/17/07, Robert Herrick <rherrick@... > wrote:

If it's the week of Feb. 29, does that mean it's only held every four
years?

Seriously though, I like the end-of-February time frame better since the
Patty Pool is usually closed until mid-January.

StevieT. wrote:
> Hello FASTers,
>
> I am taking a straw poll regarding the email below. Reply to me with
> your preference or lack thereof and I'll send a consolidated response
> back to the board.
>
> Steve
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Shannon Titzel* < Shannon@... <mailto: Shannon@...>>
> Date: Sep 15, 2007 4:52 PM
> Subject: Short Course Yards Meet question
> To: "StevieT." <steve@... <mailto: steve@...>>, Cliff and
> Mimi <reddawg@... <mailto: reddawg@...>>, Paula J Smith <
> pjsmith01@... <mailto: pjsmith01@...>>, Dana Hyams
> <fishhead@... <mailto: fishhead@...>>, Christine
> Tait <christine.tait@... <mailto: christine.tait@...>>,
> Dawn < dawn@... <mailto: dawn@...>>, Joanne
> Wainwright < joswims@... <mailto: joswims@...>>, s & s
> ellis < agsi99@... <mailto: agsi99@...>>,
> britta_christensen@...`, eeinset@...
> <mailto: eeinset@...>, Klaus and Samantha Wuttig
> <sbroyer@... <mailto: sbroyer@...>>, "Dixon,
> Matthew" < mdixon@... <mailto: mdixon@...>>,
> lynn.a.degeorge@...
> <mailto:lynn.a.degeorge@...>, Hope Wing & Rick Abbott <
> rickhope82@... <mailto: rickhope82@...>>, Ruth A Carter
> <rutha_carter@... <mailto: rutha_carter@...>>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> The AKMS board discussed possibly moving the Short Course Yards meet
> to the weekend of Feb 29 - Mar 1 instead of the middle of February.
> The idea was first to try to correspond with Iditarod weekend so it
> would be a fun time for swimmers to come to town and second there are
> several pools that close for maintenance in December and Janaury and
> this would allow a couple more weeks of training before the state meet.
>
> So here's my favor to ask all of you....let me know what you
> think. Good idea, not so good? I'm not sending this out to the
> entire AKMS group just because I don't want it to turn into something
> bigger than it really has to be, but feel free to talk to your
> teammates and get their opinions too.
>
> Thanks for your help on this!
>
> Shannon
>
>

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Kate McGlone West
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University of Alaska Fairbanks

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