swim team w/o meets (8 yo in NE DC)

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Anonymous wrote:There are different options out there. For example, in Northern Maryland there are AAU. I am not exactly sure how that works. Montgomery County is lumped into AAU with Northern Virginia, but all the teams around here are USA Swimming. I think there are more AAU in Northern Virginia. Here in MOCO USA Swimming is competitive Olympics oriented swimming. I was looking into AAU, because my daughter is in AAU basketball, and I prefer the parent coach-oriented style. There is a trend towards AAU in swimming since the pandemic basically locked many 8yo groups out of the competitive clubs. They weren't in the pool at all, except the ones that were in very young. Many of the competitive programs are forgoing USA Swimming fees. USA Swimming lost like 18,000 swimmers during the pandemic and haven't recovered. The swim meets are a miserable waste of time, I would rather be swimming myself.

Can you share info about the AAU basketball for girls? Is that in Montgomery County?

PP was talking about AAU as an option for SWIMMING, not basketball.

There is AAU basketball but this is the wrong forum - you should ask that question in the basketball forum, down the hall, 3rd door on the left:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/show/91.page

AAU Basketball is a big thing. There are several programs in your area. You can go to AAU site and search. I think they have a finder feature like USA Swimmings club finder.

The AAU site is kind weird to use, I think it is more geared towards organizers than members. You can use a search engine or ask around to find clubs. This is a good time to get in for 8yo, the teams are just forming they are just now strong enough to use ful size baskets and balls. Our club is having tryouts.

You could also ask in the other forums on DCUM.