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Please review the proposal for changes to the format of the SC Age Group Championship.  Please review the documents and contact one of the Representatives, the Coach-At-Large, the Chairs of Technical Planning and/or Age Group Committee with any feedback. Click here to email your feedback.   Message from Program Development Chair, Jeff Gray.

This proposal will be discussed in the coming year within the committee structure (Coaches, Technical Planning, Age Group, Senior Committee, and eventually Program Development).  These are open meetings.  The dates, times, locations and agendas will be posted here.

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SC Age Group Championship Proposal

Dear Coaches and other Members of the Connecticut Swimming Community:

As you may know, a proposal to restructure the Age Group Championships for the short course season has been submitted for review. This proposal has been under discussion at the committee level and at Program Development for the past couple of months.

Two of the three committees within Program Development have given this proposal a favorable review, and one has not. We have had extensive discussion on this proposal at Program Development over the past three meetings, including a very extended review and discussion at our last meeting this week.

Program Development has not taken a position on this proposal. At our last meeting, having received extensive feedback from our three committees as well as from various members of our coaching community, we concluded that we were not yet ready to vote on this proposal, for various reasons. We are now seeking additional feedback from our community on this, while we allow for the transition of the Age Group Committee chair and members.

I encourage you to go to the Connecticut Swimming website, review this proposal, and provide your feedback. The proposal can be found under the agenda and minute links for the Age Group, Technical Planning and Senior Committees, as well as Program Development; it can also be found on the coaches website and under "what's new". Feedback can be shared with any of our current or incoming committee chairs, and your coach representatives. Of course, you should also feel free to share your feedback with me and other members of the Board.

Thank you for your time.

Jeff Gray, Chair
Program Development Committee