2026 MCSL Division Seedings

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

Wasn’t it to be expected with just college kids and the A reps in charge? I heard they were use best ever best times that were 2 years old for seed times in meets.

They’re the first to post a head coach add for the 2026 season mcsl

College kids were doing what, coaching or something else?

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This is summer swimming. Don’t you all have a travel team somewhere to obsess over?

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

Tough break for a really nice community. Their coach quit unexpectedly in the preseason.

What was unexpected about it? That coach changes MCSL teams every coupla years

I thought Henry had been with CCRA for several years.

Coaching mess aside, it also may just be a cyclical drop. It happens. They had a solid run with some really fast swimmers that were ideally spread across the team. But a lot of their strength is starting to compress now into the older age groups, so team wins are harder to come by. It happens to a lot of teams.

While the division shifts can be a bit crazy some years, just being competitive and having fun in the division you are assigned should be the goal.

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Anonymous wrote:Division B
Bethesda
Mohican
River Falls
Darnestown
Glenwood
Flower Valley

Potomac to D

Potomac's downfall should be studied. Schlegel can't keep it up in A for long, I guess.

There's nothing to be studied. Their 13-14 Girls were unbeatable last year, but not so this year as they were swimming against some of the best in the area in Div A. One of their best female swimmers in 15-18 is not doing summer swim this year, another is injured after Week 2 and two of their best male swimmers are not swimming either this summer. More importantly, they have no depth in certain age groups. Nothing to do with coach Schlegel.

They recruited a bunch of kids and had some fleeting success. Those kids are not loyal like homegrown swimmers at neighborhood pools. This is karma for all of the recruiting.

All the swimmers mentioned above are homegrown kids, except for the girl injured who came from other country and started summer swim last year. Nice try though.

Homegrown by the coach and All Star Aquatics. Not homegrown to Avenel, Potomac Village or Oaklyn

Wow, seriously?? Those three who skipped this summer are NCAP swimmers. You are getting paranoid and that's not good for your mental health. Get a life.

I was going to say 2 of Potomac’s best female swimmers are from NCAP and they are actually moving out of state (I think that may be why the 15-18 girl did not swim this summer). People need to stop with the ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Agreed. It's that simple. If you're down 5 of your very top swimmers from one year to the next there is no accounting for that, and it certainly has nothing to do with coaching. If you've swum against Potomac, you can see how spirited and great the coaching is, and you know how good they are at their "full-time" jobs as club coaches as well, so there is no questioning the quality. The bottom line is, apparently three of their top swimmers did not swim this summer at all, and then two of their top females moved out of state right after the start of the season.

They swam relay carnival week 4 and Long Course week 5. They didn’t miss the whole season.

They have huge roster turnover year to year because they are not a neighborhood team. People join for Chris because he’s a good coach and they like him, but they learn overtime it’s not worth commuting across the county to be on a team of ringers who don’t care about the logo on the cap.

We are glad we stayed with our neighborhood pool instead of following to Potomac. We might never swim in Division A, B or C, but we have a true neighborhood team experience. Our roster is very consistent from year to year.

It’s an odd pool. All the kids in the neighborhoods around it swim for River Falls, which is just down the road.

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Everyone speculating on CCRA's 2025 season and next year's move to Division E without first-hand knowledge should zip it.

1) What was "unexpected" was their coach of 3+ years signed a contract to coach again in 2025 but resigned via email the night before Time Trials.

2) The three "college kids" originally slated to be assistant coaches this season did a PHENOMENAL job jointly stepping into the head coach role. The CCRA community - and in fact, the entire MCSL community - rallied around them in support and quickly helped teach them what they didn't know about using team management software to develop rosters and lineups. The coaching part? They already had that down by virtue of their MANY years of swimming and coaching in PVS, CCRA, and their colleges. I haven't heard anyone - from A reps to Pre-team parents - complain about the job they are doing.

3) The algorithm did CCRA dirty putting them in Division B this year. One prior poster hit it on the head: "It also may just be a cyclical drop. It happens. They had a solid run with some really fast swimmers that were ideally spread across the team. But a lot of their strength is starting to compress now into the older age groups, so team wins are harder to come by." BINGO.

4) The decision to post a head coach hiring announcement early was nothing more than a desire to get into the Jenga game that is MSCL coaching early; it was NOT an indictment of this year's head coaches. Until this year, for continuity reasons, CCRA strove to have a professional coach each summer supported by collegiate assistant coaches and high school junior coaches. Wanting to explore the potential to return to that model does not mean that this year's three head coaches did not do an amazing job and will not be welcomed back with open arms.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone speculating on CCRA's 2025 season and next year's move to Division E without first-hand knowledge should zip it.

1) What was "unexpected" was their coach of 3+ years signed a contract to coach again in 2025 but resigned via email the night before Time Trials.

2) The three "college kids" originally slated to be assistant coaches this season did a PHENOMENAL job jointly stepping into the head coach role. The CCRA community - and in fact, the entire MCSL community - rallied around them in support and quickly helped teach them what they didn't know about using team management software to develop rosters and lineups. The coaching part? They already had that down by virtue of their MANY years of swimming and coaching in PVS, CCRA, and their colleges. I haven't heard anyone - from A reps to Pre-team parents - complain about the job they are doing.

3) The algorithm did CCRA dirty putting them in Division B this year. One prior poster hit it on the head: "It also may just be a cyclical drop. It happens. They had a solid run with some really fast swimmers that were ideally spread across the team. But a lot of their strength is starting to compress now into the older age groups, so team wins are harder to come by." BINGO.

4) The decision to post a head coach hiring announcement early was nothing more than a desire to get into the Jenga game that is MSCL coaching early; it was NOT an indictment of this year's head coaches. Until this year, for continuity reasons, CCRA strove to have a professional coach each summer supported by collegiate assistant coaches and high school junior coaches. Wanting to explore the potential to return to that model does not mean that this year's three head coaches did not do an amazing job and will not be welcomed back with open arms.

Tell us more how they figured out seed times and about the A reps.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone speculating on CCRA's 2025 season and next year's move to Division E without first-hand knowledge should zip it.

1) What was "unexpected" was their coach of 3+ years signed a contract to coach again in 2025 but resigned via email the night before Time Trials.

2) The three "college kids" originally slated to be assistant coaches this season did a PHENOMENAL job jointly stepping into the head coach role. The CCRA community - and in fact, the entire MCSL community - rallied around them in support and quickly helped teach them what they didn't know about using team management software to develop rosters and lineups. The coaching part? They already had that down by virtue of their MANY years of swimming and coaching in PVS, CCRA, and their colleges. I haven't heard anyone - from A reps to Pre-team parents - complain about the job they are doing.

3) The algorithm did CCRA dirty putting them in Division B this year. One prior poster hit it on the head: "It also may just be a cyclical drop. It happens. They had a solid run with some really fast swimmers that were ideally spread across the team. But a lot of their strength is starting to compress now into the older age groups, so team wins are harder to come by." BINGO.

4) The decision to post a head coach hiring announcement early was nothing more than a desire to get into the Jenga game that is MSCL coaching early; it was NOT an indictment of this year's head coaches. Until this year, for continuity reasons, CCRA strove to have a professional coach each summer supported by collegiate assistant coaches and high school junior coaches. Wanting to explore the potential to return to that model does not mean that this year's three head coaches did not do an amazing job and will not be welcomed back with open arms.

Defensive Dorothy from Chevy Chase has entered the chat

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Oh yes please, let's talk more shit about minor errors made brand-new coaches who didn't know how to use Team Manager three days before their first meet because their head coach disappeared and A Reps who do the most thankless job at pools all across the county navigating difficult parents, demanding pool boards, nepotism, and day-to-day management tasks that would earn them thousands of dollars if they weren't VOLUNTEERS......

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yes please, let's talk more shit about minor errors made brand-new coaches who didn't know how to use Team Manager three days before their first meet because their head coach disappeared and A Reps who do the most thankless job at pools all across the county navigating difficult parents, demanding pool boards, nepotism, and day-to-day management tasks that would earn them thousands of dollars if they weren't VOLUNTEERS......

We will have our popcorn while you have an unprovoked meltdown

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone speculating on CCRA's 2025 season and next year's move to Division E without first-hand knowledge should zip it.

1) What was "unexpected" was their coach of 3+ years signed a contract to coach again in 2025 but resigned via email the night before Time Trials.

2) The three "college kids" originally slated to be assistant coaches this season did a PHENOMENAL job jointly stepping into the head coach role. The CCRA community - and in fact, the entire MCSL community - rallied around them in support and quickly helped teach them what they didn't know about using team management software to develop rosters and lineups. The coaching part? They already had that down by virtue of their MANY years of swimming and coaching in PVS, CCRA, and their colleges. I haven't heard anyone - from A reps to Pre-team parents - complain about the job they are doing.

3) The algorithm did CCRA dirty putting them in Division B this year. One prior poster hit it on the head: "It also may just be a cyclical drop. It happens. They had a solid run with some really fast swimmers that were ideally spread across the team. But a lot of their strength is starting to compress now into the older age groups, so team wins are harder to come by." BINGO.

4) The decision to post a head coach hiring announcement early was nothing more than a desire to get into the Jenga game that is MSCL coaching early; it was NOT an indictment of this year's head coaches. Until this year, for continuity reasons, CCRA strove to have a professional coach each summer supported by collegiate assistant coaches and high school junior coaches. Wanting to explore the potential to return to that model does not mean that this year's three head coaches did not do an amazing job and will not be welcomed back with open arms.

Wow. Get a life

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Relatively new swim parent here, and these discussions lead me to wonder why MCSL doesn't consider age ups in their division assignments? Clearly these can be very impactful for teams, especially smaller ones