Tell me about Fairfax County HS swim

[Anonymous]

All of the district/regional/state meet results can be found here: http://pvswim.org/hsresults.html

You can use that to guide how competitive each HS team is.

[Anonymous]

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The High School coach for my kid's team get PISSED when kids skip meets, but also thinks that high school meets are the key to getting into college - perhaps back in the day, not so now.

Having a kid that had gone through the process and will be swimming in college. High School swim means almost nothing unless you make it to States, then Colleges will care.

[Anonymous]

which teams are usually the strongest? TJHSST seems to have a ton of swim/dive titles from the past 20 years on their building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:which teams are usually the strongest? TJHSST seems to have a ton of swim/dive titles from the past 20 years on their building

Isn't TJ in the lowest division?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:which teams are usually the strongest? TJHSST seems to have a ton of swim/dive titles from the past 20 years on their building

Isn't TJ in the lowest division?

Newbie here, but if you win the state title, aren't you beating teams across all divisions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:which teams are usually the strongest? TJHSST seems to have a ton of swim/dive titles from the past 20 years on their building

Isn't TJ in the lowest division?

Newbie here, but if you win the state title, aren't you beating teams across all divisions?

Nope— only the teams in your same division. The TJ boys were quite good last year, though!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any info on Oakton high school in particular?

They have strong teams. Girls were district champs the past two years, boys were second last year and first in 2022 IIRC.

I was curious about Oakton too and found results from a couple of their December 2022 meets. It looks like pretty much all the boys who swam in the meets had close to A times or better. For girls it looked like a wider range… some BB or even B times by the fourth swimmer in the lineup.

Is the roster size limited to the number of kids needed to put four in each event at the meets? Or do they have a second string of sorts? Are there ever exhibition heats? Kids who usually just swim in a B or C relay?

It’s so depressing how hard it is to even make a high school sports team around here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any info on Oakton high school in particular?

They have strong teams. Girls were district champs the past two years, boys were second last year and first in 2022 IIRC.

I was curious about Oakton too and found results from a couple of their December 2022 meets. It looks like pretty much all the boys who swam in the meets had close to A times or better. For girls it looked like a wider range… some BB or even B times by the fourth swimmer in the lineup.

Is the roster size limited to the number of kids needed to put four in each event at the meets? Or do they have a second string of sorts? Are there ever exhibition heats? Kids who usually just swim in a B or C relay?

It’s so depressing how hard it is to even make a high school sports team around here.

All dual meets are one heat per event. Most meets our 10 lanes (this depends on the pool the meet is swum at), so 5 swimmers per team. Same for relays. Swimmers who do not swim an individual event are able to swim on relays. Oakton carries around 30 boys and 30 girls. The roster size is limited because they only get 5 lanes for practices, which is also why USS swimmers attendance is minimized, so those who don't have a place to practice elsewhere can get an appropraite practice in. When the whole team shows up on Thursday, its a zoo.

[Anonymous]

How many individual events can a swimmer swim in a meet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many individual events can a swimmer swim in a meet?

Two

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:which teams are usually the strongest? TJHSST seems to have a ton of swim/dive titles from the past 20 years on their building

Isn't TJ in the lowest division?

FCPS teams are in Districts and not Divisions. They are in the same district for every sport. So a school may have a very strong basketball team and weak swim team but they both compete in the same district. The districts are aligned geographically and also school size.


TJ is in the National District, along with Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, Edison, Hayfield, Lewis & Mount Vernon. All of the schools that TJ competes against have large FARMS (free and reduced lunches) and large ESOL populations. TJ tends to dominate the district in the “country club” sports like tennis, golf and swim & dive. But they are more competitive or weaker in basketball, softball, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:which teams are usually the strongest? TJHSST seems to have a ton of swim/dive titles from the past 20 years on their building

Isn't TJ in the lowest division?

FCPS teams are in Districts and not Divisions. They are in the same district for every sport. So a school may have a very strong basketball team and weak swim team but they both compete in the same district. The districts are aligned geographically and also school size.


TJ is in the National District, along with Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, Edison, Hayfield, Lewis & Mount Vernon. All of the schools that TJ competes against have large FARMS (free and reduced lunches) and large ESOL populations. TJ tends to dominate the district in the “country club” sports like tennis, golf and swim & dive. But they are more competitive or weaker in basketball, softball, etc.

But they are also divided into classes and regions (referred to as divisions when you pair the class with region). Districts are at the lowest level. So TJ is in the National District, but in the 6C division.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many individual events can a swimmer swim in a meet?

Two

A swimmer can swim a max of 4 events (and diving is considered 1 event) at a meet. Its up to the coach to determine how that breakdown goes. A kid could swim all three relays and 1 individual event, or 2 individual events and 2 relays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many individual events can a swimmer swim in a meet?

Two

A swimmer can swim a max of 4 events (and diving is considered 1 event) at a meet. Its up to the coach to determine how that breakdown goes. A kid could swim all three relays and 1 individual event, or 2 individual events and 2 relays.

The question was how many individual events. The answer is two.