[NCNCA] Mentored novice fields

[Dan Connelly]

Casey Kerrigan wrote:
> In order to have a Cat 5 for women we would need USCF to change the  
> rules to establish a Cat 5 for women. It has been brought up to the  
> USCF Board of Trustees in the past two years and the proposal has gone  
> down in flames due to lack of support from the vast majority of USCF  
> Trustees, AS was pointed out in another post we are in a different  
> world in terms of field sizes. Most of the rest of the country doesn't  
> have nearly enough women to really justify 1/2/3 and 4 races much less  
> a Cat 5 race.


Right.  This is a big issue.  My proposal, as a first step, was strictly for cat 5's, which are only men.  As has been pointed out, there's plenty of career W4 racers.  They don't necessarily want mentoring.  Maybe some 5's don't want it, either.  Too bad: as J-A says, "upgrade".

The irony is that a woman could enter a "men's" cat 4 race as her first race, while a man could not.

Dan