Do A meet families ever take vacation during summer swim season?

[Anonymous]

Hoping my B meet kid can get a chance to swim in the A meet.

[Anonymous]

We don’t really have “A meet families”, but families take vacations throughout the swim season.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Swim faster.

[Anonymous]

At our pool, the regular A meet swimmers don’t take vacation until after swim season

[Anonymous]

At our pool, the regular A meet families rarely travel until after the swim season. I hate it, as my DH cares far more about swim season than I do and I hate being limited to travel during August only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our pool, the regular A meet swimmers don’t take vacation until after swim season

That helps the swim team, for sure. Not only do we have numerous families gone, but we have swimmers that just skip because they don’t feel like swimming.

For the first two A meets I think only a little over half of the swimmers were declared available.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Don't listen to them, plenty of A meet swimmers leave because these meets don't mean much to them whatsoever. No matter how much you think it matters to the star NCAP swimmers, they really don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Don't listen to them, plenty of A meet swimmers leave because these meets don't mean much to them whatsoever. No matter how much you think it matters to the star NCAP swimmers, they really don't.

+1

Elite swimmers do summer season for fun, but if there is a competitive meet where they can get event times they need, they won't hesitate to skip an A meet - no matter how much the team needs the points they would accrue.

As for vacations, we've had a few kids take a weekend trip and miss a single A meet, but for the most part they don't.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes yes, especially around July 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Don't listen to them, plenty of A meet swimmers leave because these meets don't mean much to them whatsoever. No matter how much you think it matters to the star NCAP swimmers, they really don't.

+1

Elite swimmers do summer season for fun, but if there is a competitive meet where they can get event times they need, they won't hesitate to skip an A meet - no matter how much the team needs the points they would accrue.

As for vacations, we've had a few kids take a weekend trip and miss a single A meet, but for the most part they don't.

+2. There are also several weeks until club champs meets start which allow for weekend getaways. My swimmer also starts back to school in mid August so with zones running until August 10th, avoiding taking time off that would conflict with summer swim was not a priority.

[Anonymous]

Yes. My DD is top 5-ish in a couple of events and has swam both A meets so far because faster kids aren't available. We are at home this weekend and I doubt she will swim but we'll see.

[Anonymous]

All the time, but we're in NVSL division 16 and the vacations are part of why we stay down there.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the team and age groups- top division teams with top swimmers my guess is no, but lower division teams and kids in younger age groups yes. I think older kids care more and won't miss, younger kids/parents of young kids tend to not care as much.

My kids have swum in A meets for the past 9 years and we only missed 1 A meet the very first year/before we knew our kid would make A meets. Now they would be very angry if we missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the team and age groups- top division teams with top swimmers my guess is no, but lower division teams and kids in younger age groups yes. I think older kids care more and won't miss, younger kids/parents of young kids tend to not care as much.

My kids have swum in A meets for the past 9 years and we only missed 1 A meet the very first year/before we knew our kid would make A meets. Now they would be very angry if we missed.

Why do top divisions and top swimmers not want to miss A meet once or twice? Are they afraid of losing their spots or potentially improving their times