Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 2025, 91 of the 102 teams in the Northern Virginia Swimming League (NVSL) were represented at the All-Stars meet, so to say that only top division teams send swimmers is not an accurate statement.
And how many of those teams were in the orphan tent?
Yes, my team sends a swimmer or two to the meet. We get to be in the orphan tent because we don't even have enough swimmers to be allowed space for a team tent. So my team should be paying $100 for that experience while D1 is sending 20 kids and has two team tents? That is a pretty disingenuous statistic.
Agreed.
$100-$150 isn't a huge hit for a team, but can you imagine being a team like Pinewood Lake or Edsall Park, who barely have enough families to field a team, being asked to shoulder the same burden of paying for All Stars as any of the teams in the higher divisions? As a lower-division team with ~100 kids on the team, but who has been sending more swimmers to IAS in recent years (thank you, Coach!), we wouldn't be completely upset by it, but asking teams sending more swimmers to contribute a bit more is the much fairer way to make this work.
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