As I pointed out here:
http://ozreport.com/17.200#1, the USHPA Competition Committee much more
often than not looks to make demands of meet organizers rather than offer
incentives. That does not mean that the USHPA doesn't provide useful services to
competition organizers, it just means that on balance there is no balance. Many
sticks, few carrots.

I believe that this is not due to any pernicious on the part of the volunteers
who work on the BOD, but rather to the structural impediments that make it much
more difficult to offer and provide incentives to meet organizers. The BOD
should look at these structural issues and decide if they need to restructure
the USHPA.

Competition is certainly not a priority at the USHPA, as it involves only a few
members. But the USHPA's actions continual damage competition, access to
competition, and do little to promote competition. Most of their seemingly
positive efforts to help have gone no where, basically because they have no idea
what needs to be done.

For years I have asked the USHPA to form a partnership with the meet organizers.
Nothing has happened.