2026 MCSL Division Seedings

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Anonymous wrote: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

Also it may be the case that the odd years are “shadowed” by the even years so there are very few times say for 9s or 11s on a team so if the 10s and 12s aged up then the bracket might be kind of empty

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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.

They just didn't swim dual meets after Week 2. Relay carnival doesn't really attribute to team's ranking too much and LC doesn't at all. PO doesn't have big roster turnover. I don't know why you think PO recruits swimmer all over the county, but they don't. They are as local as you can get. This year was just a strange season due to 1. Two of their best swimmers moved after Week 2, 2. Three of their best swimmers skipped the season (all NCAP kids), and 3. Another two injured for significant amount of time (one for about three weeks the other ended season after Week 2). If these all happen in 6 weeks, there's not much you can do about it as a summer swim coach even if you are Bob Bowman.

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Curious why the NCAP kids couldn’t show up for meets. We have several NCAP, ASA and RMSC swimmers that only come to meets. They might pop in for the last 15 minutes of a Friday practice to get a donut and see their friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious why the NCAP kids couldn’t show up for meets. We have several NCAP, ASA and RMSC swimmers that only come to meets. They might pop in for the last 15 minutes of a Friday practice to get a donut and see their friends.

Coaches won’t excuse them for summer swim

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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.

They just didn't swim dual meets after Week 2. Relay carnival doesn't really attribute to team's ranking too much and LC doesn't at all. PO doesn't have big roster turnover. I don't know why you think PO recruits swimmer all over the county, but they don't. They are as local as you can get. This year was just a strange season due to 1. Two of their best swimmers moved after Week 2, 2. Three of their best swimmers skipped the season (all NCAP kids), and 3. Another two injured for significant amount of time (one for about three weeks the other ended season after Week 2). If these all happen in 6 weeks, there's not much you can do about it as a summer swim coach even if you are Bob Bowman.

We are an ASA family and we’re blessed to have had Chris as a coach. But if they aren’t recruiting, why were they in division I Chris’ first 15 years in the league? He’s been a great coach the entire time. Everyone who lives in that neighborhood goes to River Falls. They had to seek talent from elsewhere to suddenly make the jump from I, H, J to A and B. Our ASA friends on that team live all over.

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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.

They just didn't swim dual meets after Week 2. Relay carnival doesn't really attribute to team's ranking too much and LC doesn't at all. PO doesn't have big roster turnover. I don't know why you think PO recruits swimmer all over the county, but they don't. They are as local as you can get. This year was just a strange season due to 1. Two of their best swimmers moved after Week 2, 2. Three of their best swimmers skipped the season (all NCAP kids), and 3. Another two injured for significant amount of time (one for about three weeks the other ended season after Week 2). If these all happen in 6 weeks, there's not much you can do about it as a summer swim coach even if you are Bob Bowman.

We are an ASA family and we’re blessed to have had Chris as a coach. But if they aren’t recruiting, why were they in division I Chris’ first 15 years in the league? He’s been a great coach the entire time. Everyone who lives in that neighborhood goes to River Falls. They had to seek talent from elsewhere to suddenly make the jump from I, H, J to A and B. Our ASA friends on that team live all over.

Folks keep pointing to the NCAP kids, but there are plenty of NCAP kids that started at ASA and left when they turned 11 because of ASA's coaching issues in that age group.

I can think of only one strong swimmer on PO who lives close to PO. I can think of quite a few who that drive quite far to get there. There are certainly many I don't know, but there are a lot of kids who end up at PO because of Chris. The RF coach is also from ASA, so ASA kids who live nearby very often start at RF and then stay there.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious why the NCAP kids couldn’t show up for meets. We have several NCAP, ASA and RMSC swimmers that only come to meets. They might pop in for the last 15 minutes of a Friday practice to get a donut and see their friends.

Coaches won’t excuse them for summer swim

Then that’s on the coach

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

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

Also CCRA is true neighborhood pool with pretty small boundaries (NCC, Rock Creek and Somerset all within 2 miles). I think it is kind of amazing they made it all the way up to B, tbh.

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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

The college kids were great and stepped in after the coach quit the night before time trials to focus on his other commitments. No one was swimming on times two years old (how could you with age group bands only being only two years)? Pls stop stirring the pot. Kids had a lot of fun and also swam fast.

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

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

Also CCRA is true neighborhood pool with pretty small boundaries (NCC, Rock Creek and Somerset all within 2 miles). I think it is kind of amazing they made it all the way up to B, tbh.

I heard the story behind his departure and what a childish douche move that was.

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

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

Also CCRA is true neighborhood pool with pretty small boundaries (NCC, Rock Creek and Somerset all within 2 miles). I think it is kind of amazing they made it all the way up to B, tbh.

I heard the story behind his departure and what a childish douche move that was.

I don't know the details but it would seem that unless the circumstances were extreme, a day before time trials is not ok and unprofessional.

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

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

Also CCRA is true neighborhood pool with pretty small boundaries (NCC, Rock Creek and Somerset all within 2 miles). I think it is kind of amazing they made it all the way up to B, tbh.

I heard the story behind his departure and what a childish douche move that was.

I don't know the details but it would seem that unless the circumstances were extreme, a day before time trials is not ok and unprofessional.

Circumstances were not extreme, it was incredibly unprofessional and related to his club team.

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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

The college kids were great and stepped in after the coach quit the night before time trials to focus on his other commitments. No one was swimming on times two years old (how could you with age group bands only being only two years)? Pls stop stirring the pot. Kids had a lot of fun and also swam fast.

The division seedings do not confirm the swam fast piece

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

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

Also CCRA is true neighborhood pool with pretty small boundaries (NCC, Rock Creek and Somerset all within 2 miles). I think it is kind of amazing they made it all the way up to B, tbh.

I heard the story behind his departure and what a childish douche move that was.

Tell us all so we can judge too!

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Anonymous wrote:Damn CCRA brutal fall….

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

Also CCRA is true neighborhood pool with pretty small boundaries (NCC, Rock Creek and Somerset all within 2 miles). I think it is kind of amazing they made it all the way up to B, tbh.

I heard the story behind his departure and what a childish douche move that was.

Tell us all so we can judge too!

Allegedly, he left because he was mad that a couple fast kids on the team were leaving his club for a competing club. While I do not know whether the story is true, it strikes me as the kind of thing he would do give the tantrums he has thrown previously when swimmers switched clubs.