ASAU qualifying meets

So ASAU has this new rule for this year to qualify for regionals and nationals. First you have to swim at an ASAU sanctioned meet within the season. This means that any swimmers from the previous years cannot use the events they swam last year, but have to re-due them this season. That is understandable. The only thing is though there are only two sanctioned ASAU meets before regionals and nationals, both are within the first three months of the season while regionals and national s are still four and five months away. No one knows exactly what they want to swim yet and no one is going to be going fast times yet. The big confusion is that though we have to have swam the events this season we are still able to use last year times from nationals as seed times for both this years regionals and nationals. What the point then in having this ruling?

The founder of ASAU is trying to get more clubs to swim against each other but with lack of funding through the universities clubs cannot afford to do a lot of traveling. It is easier to swim against other universities, division schools, in the area. This makes the opportunity to swim sanctioned ASAU meets almost impossible for some clubs. Both ASAU and NCAA need to do a better job at incorporating all teams for the sake of the sport.