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NCAA Mandates Electronic Relay Judging for All Championships and Last-Chance MeetsFor the past two years, electronic relay judging for relay swimming events has been required at the NCAA Division I Championship level. Now, electronic relay judging is mandated for all Championship and Last-Chance Meets. Wayne Burrow is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Director of Championships. In March 2004, Mr. Burrow said Relay Judging Platforms (RJPs) are essential in running a fair and equitable competition. "Relay judging platforms have been a tremendous technical development in swimming," he said. By providing swimming officials the means to judge relay exchanges between the incoming swimmer and the outgoing swimmer, this technology enables officials to determine if any swimmer leaves the starting block too early on a relay exchange. Up until 2004, this had always been the domain of human judges. "To say the least," Burrow said, "it is a very difficult task to judge relay exchanges using the human eye when you are looking at events that take place in a few hundredths of a second." Burrow feels that the overall value of RJPs to the sport of swimming is a "great step in keeping up with the sport. As in other sports, swimmers are getting faster and better trained. Relay exchanges have become split-second actions. This technology assists the great set of officials thatwe use by providing them another tool to do their job at the highest possible level." The NCAA has declared that automatic relay judging is the fairest and most accurate way to judge relay exchanges. |
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