NCAP going downhill?
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Anonymous
The NOVA hosted meet is still in Richmond this year. There is a different meet in Manassas, but they are two different meets. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. I meant that NOVA hosted the MAAGS meet last year in Richmond, and this year MAAGS is in Manassas because of the senior meet this weekend in Richmond. |
Anonymous
| I don’t know. NCAP looked pretty strong at both meets this weekend…. |
Anonymous
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Looked better at MAAGS
A sea of red for most NCappers at NOVA |
Anonymous
If you’re referring to adding time, comparing age groupers to senior swimmers is apples and oranges when you’re talking about a meet the first week of November. Age groupers drop time early in the season much easier than senior swimmers do. The age groupers did kill it at MAAGS. |
Anonymous
| NCAP is strong. |
Anonymous
| NCAP MU is loaded with talent in the 11-14 age group |
Anonymous
Marymount and West run deep in that age group. |
Anonymous
| Those, plus I saw Prep over in Maryland showing up strong in events as well. That whole meet looked stacked. Both LIAC and NOVA have really strong programs. NCAP came out on top in overall points, but that gets traded back and forth every few years it seems. |
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Anonymous
Prep was strong too, depth wise they were right there with Marymount and West (Claude Moore is another deep site). They’ve also gotten a couple 13-14 pick ups from RMSC (maybe because of the KSAC closure?) who are exceptionally fast. |
Anonymous
| NCAP-Burke and NCAP-Tyson’s also were really strong. The NOVA 10 year old girls are so insanely fast (top of the whole US), and the LIAC 9 year old girls are tremendous. Honestly, I felt all the NCAP Virginia sites were super strong, but this is a tiny, tiny sample size out of a humongous organization. It’s kind of like watching the Olympics, and we would expect the U.S. to do much better than Great Britain or Australia just based on population…yet they aren’t super impressive when we take population into account. |
Anonymous
| It’s a tiny sample but it does show the absolute strength at the top of the club. There were multiple swimmers that put down AAAA times at a meet the first week of November, that’s impressive no matter how big the club is overall. The other thing I noticed was that some of the NCAP B relays finished ahead of other clubs’ A relays, again demonstrating the strength at the top of the club. On one hand it’s great that a high level club is accessible to kids below that AAA/AAAA level, but as the saying goes the BB level kids really are just grist for the mill. |
Anonymous
| They should pull in MAC, along with the other top three, for a truly competitive meet. Wouldn’t that be something?! |
Anonymous
| *Or TAC |