[M T]

If you're that worried about two days out of four weeks, why go at all? The athletes already qualified for ncaas. They aren't tapering for conference championships. The races themselves don't seem that important since they are skipping the finals. Ncaas are happening in pacific time zone so don't need to see the effect on jet lag.

It seems a fair question.  In swimming, there are plenty of precedents for bypassing on some finals, virtually always because there is another final event that would be impacted.  Maybe having the top swimmers skipping the meet entirely was not allowed by the Stanford A.D. who made the commitment to join the ACC.

It makes one think about how the East Coast teams would feel about a conference tournament for swimming or basketball, etc, on the West Coast.  Or are Stanford & Cal expected to suffer the consequences of the travel forever?

(Oh, by the way, the Stanford Artistic Swimming team just won their Mountain-Pacific Sports Federation conference tournament ...


          in Massachusetts!)

[M T]

If you're that worried about two days out of four weeks, why go at all? The athletes already qualified for ncaas. They aren't tapering for conference championships. The races themselves don't seem that important since they are skipping the finals. Ncaas are happening in pacific time zone so don't need to see the effect on jet lag.

It seems a fair question.  In swimming, there are plenty of precedents for bypassing on some finals, virtually always because there is another final event that would be impacted.  Maybe having the top swimmers skipping the meet entirely was not allowed by the Stanford A.D. who made the commitment to join the ACC.

It makes one think about how the East Coast teams would feel about a conference tournament for swimming or basketball, etc, on the West Coast.  Or are Stanford & Cal expected to suffer the consequences of the travel forever?

(Oh, by the way, the Stanford Artistic Swimming team just won their Mountain-Pacific Sports Federation conference tournament ...


          in Massachusetts!)