Right, and there are roughly 40-45 clubs that are a part of PVS. So if only 8 are sending swimmers to D1 schools it proves the point that there are distinctions between the clubs for swimmers that are elite. |
NCAP and Machine have tons and tons more swimmers and locations, so they should have more D1 Swimmers. Why doesn't anyone understand that just as a matter of percentage?
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I understand that, but if you have an elite swimmer with aspirations for swimming say at a Power 5 school you’re not best served by going with the small club that doesn’t have a training cohort of swimmers of the same caliber. Is it possible to be the lone superstar at a small club and do great things, sure, but that is the harder route. Why do people get so defensive about this? |
It's not solely about percentage, it's about having a specific training group with the coaches, training plan, and peer cohort to develop swimmers at that level. Smaller teams have advantages over the larger ones in some ways - said as the parent of Machine swimmers. This isn't personal. |
They have very few D1 kids and only a handful of trials kids. I think everyone should reset their expectations as to what the average “national training group” level kid is going to achieve. Most are D3 caliber |
I’m just going to say that we are at a site with one of the aforementioned clubs and every kid in the top level training group that is going to continue swimming is going to a D1 school. This site also has multiple Olympic trials qualifiers (current and alums). |
Please share which site/club this is. |
DP - that is definitely an NCAP site. |
Yes it is NCAP. |
Same. I have an age group swimmer but almost the whole group qualified for NCSAs. They definitely push each other and as they move into HS, I expect them to continue to do so. For my child, have such a strong group of 8-9 swimmers has been incredibly valuable. |
There is at least one top level RMSC site with all of the training group planning on swimming D1. The few that ended up D3 went to top academic/swim schools NESAC or UAA |
The reality is the swimmers in the top training groups at these clubs are elite by any metric. I don’t quite understand why people feel the need to try and denigrate or dismiss these clubs and their swimmers, but it’s just inaccurate to try and portray the top training groups at these clubs as mediocre. |
NCAP-Burke and NCAP-West, and previously NCAP-Prep |
I would send a note thanking them for past years and letting them know not coming back, especially if you'll see them. I probably would make my kid write a note, too. |
What about the NCAP Dulles South/Claude Moore site? How are they? |