Any inside knowledge about the PVS 14U LC Champs meet schedule?

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Anonymous wrote:And there’s a lot not to like! (IMO)

Such as?

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https://www.pvswim.org/2425meet/25-112-ma.pdf

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I don’t love the fact that I have to use leave on more than 1 work day for this meet, but the new schedule of events works out for my swimmer. Their best events are spread out 2 a day on 3 of the days, so I only need leave on 2 work days instead of 3.

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Anonymous wrote:And there’s a lot not to like! (IMO)

Such as?

Not the quoted poster, but 400 im and 800 free the same day kind of sucks for my kid.

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Sucks that it’s always on the same weekend as NVSL Divisionals. Late finals on Friday night and for kids that swim and dive, it’s much harder to miss dive Divisionals on Sunday than a regular meet.

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They’ve also gotten rid of the C final, which is a nice bonus during a very long meet. The LC season is very short so it’s nice to get an extra swim.

Not crazy about the 1500 being the very last event on the last day. And the 200 breast and 400 IM often draw similar swimmers too. That’s a hard double.

I think in a lot of cases people will end up doing 1 event one or two of the days and that is a lot of effort in the midst of summer swim as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Sucks that it’s always on the same weekend as NVSL Divisionals. Late finals on Friday night and for kids that swim and dive, it’s much harder to miss dive Divisionals on Sunday than a regular meet.

Only the past few years. Divisionals used to be last weekend of July.

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Anonymous wrote:They’ve also gotten rid of the C final, which is a nice bonus during a very long meet. The LC season is very short so it’s nice to get an extra swim.

Not crazy about the 1500 being the very last event on the last day. And the 200 breast and 400 IM often draw similar swimmers too. That’s a hard double.

I think in a lot of cases people will end up doing 1 event one or two of the days and that is a lot of effort in the midst of summer swim as well.

Yeah breaststrokers are often also among the best IMers so that’s a rough double. My breaststroker is going to do the 100 back instead of the 4 IM that day because she said the 4 IM and 200 breast are too much for the same day because she won’t be able to swim her best in both.

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If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

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Anonymous wrote:If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

I was just thinking the same thing. That Friday night will be a lot of scratches because my swimmer and I are not late night people with early morning swims. They will certainly scratch.

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Anonymous wrote:If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

I was just thinking the same thing. That Friday night will be a lot of scratches because my swimmer and I are not late night people with early morning swims. They will certainly scratch.

Ya I highly doubt there will be more than 1-2 scratches. It’s a championship meet and will be treated as such by the other 98+% of the LSC.

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Anonymous wrote:If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

I was just thinking the same thing. That Friday night will be a lot of scratches because my swimmer and I are not late night people with early morning swims. They will certainly scratch.

Ya I highly doubt there will be more than 1-2 scratches. It’s a championship meet and will be treated as such by the other 98+% of the LSC.

These are 14&U. I would agree with you if high school kids because they might be striving to swim in college. But the younger kids love summer swim.

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Anonymous wrote:If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

I was just thinking the same thing. That Friday night will be a lot of scratches because my swimmer and I are not late night people with early morning swims. They will certainly scratch.

Ya I highly doubt there will be more than 1-2 scratches. It’s a championship meet and will be treated as such by the other 98+% of the LSC.

These are 14&U. I would agree with you if high school kids because they might be striving to swim in college. But the younger kids love summer swim.

Why wouldn’t the 10 and under that is that concerned about their summer meet on Saturday just swim Thursday, Sunday and Monday and not choose events on Friday then? I doubt there will be many scratches for the 13-14s.

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Anonymous wrote:If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

I was just thinking the same thing. That Friday night will be a lot of scratches because my swimmer and I are not late night people with early morning swims. They will certainly scratch.

Ya I highly doubt there will be more than 1-2 scratches. It’s a championship meet and will be treated as such by the other 98+% of the LSC.

These are 14&U. I would agree with you if high school kids because they might be striving to swim in college. But the younger kids love summer swim.

Why wouldn’t the 10 and under that is that concerned about their summer meet on Saturday just swim Thursday, Sunday and Monday and not choose events on Friday then? I doubt there will be many scratches for the 13-14s.

Our club won’t allow scratches for finals but my 14 yr old was super unhappy having to swim finals so late on Friday night. They still made All Stars the next day buts it’s stressful and tiring having the meets on the same weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:If they had to cut the 10U final to 1 heat, they probably should have limited the 200+ events to timed finals. With the 200 IM occurring as one of the last events the Friday night before divisionals, I could see my own child (who could make finals in it) scratching it because we can’t get home at 11 pm the night before 7 am divisionals.

I was just thinking the same thing. That Friday night will be a lot of scratches because my swimmer and I are not late night people with early morning swims. They will certainly scratch.

Ya I highly doubt there will be more than 1-2 scratches. It’s a championship meet and will be treated as such by the other 98+% of the LSC.

These are 14&U. I would agree with you if high school kids because they might be striving to swim in college. But the younger kids love summer swim.

Why wouldn’t the 10 and under that is that concerned about their summer meet on Saturday just swim Thursday, Sunday and Monday and not choose events on Friday then? I doubt there will be many scratches for the 13-14s.

Our club won’t allow scratches for finals but my 14 yr old was super unhappy having to swim finals so late on Friday night. They still made All Stars the next day buts it’s stressful and tiring having the meets on the same weekend.

Then just don’t swim Friday events. Life is full of choices and not everything can revolve around summer swim.