Moving to Area with 14 Year Old Middle Distance Swimmer

[Anonymous]

agreed - OP isn't lying I figured out who he is. DC area will be lucky to have him.

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Anonymous wrote:agreed - OP isn't lying I figured out who he is. DC area will be lucky to have him.

That's creepy. Don't do that.

[Anonymous]

If he’s a freshman, isn’t he almost 15? Not to discount the times which are very fast, but he doesn’t need a super fast 13-14 group as he should be about to age into the senior level and there are plenty of area teams with fast senior level cohorts.

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Anonymous wrote:If he’s a freshman, isn’t he almost 15? Not to discount the times which are very fast, but he doesn’t need a super fast 13-14 group as he should be about to age into the senior level and there are plenty of area teams with fast senior level cohorts.

All those super fast 13-14s will also be moving up groups and that is the cohort he would be training with for the next 4 years.

[Anonymous]

A 1:53 200BK would have put him in 2nd place at the recent PVS Champs. 1st place was a 1:52 mid and swims for OCCS. The next three swimmers were NCAP but MM doesn’t breakout which practice location. I’m sure there are ways to fight that out though.

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Anonymous wrote:AAC is your cheapest option with the best practice times. Coach is great

They will not specialize your kid like NCAP.

And I think it would be better to know what kid of cuts does your kid make currently.

2 back is probably his best event at 1:53, goes 1:45 in 2 free and 1:56 in 2 fly. He is currently a freshman. AAC does appear to have some strong swimmers in 15/16 age group.

So there are only like 10 boys in the country with those kinds of times. The only club that is going to be able to work with that kind of talent would be NCAP and honestly it would be a disservice to your son to be at any other club in this area. AAC has one strong boy in the 15-16 range and his parent is his coach which I think explains a lot of his success. You would not get the same treatment.

Did you misspell county with country?

Per USA swimming data: This year there are only 41 14 y/o boys with USA swimming times under 1:54 in the 200 back, 1 from PVS.

Just in case you can't count, 41 is one more than 4 times 10.

Not when you cross reference it with the other times that were listed. The pool gets smaller (less than 10) per usaswimming data.

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Anonymous wrote:A 1:53 200BK would have put him in 2nd place at the recent PVS Champs. 1st place was a 1:52 mid and swims for OCCS. The next three swimmers were NCAP but MM doesn’t breakout which practice location. I’m sure there are ways to fight that out though.

FWIW, those NCAP swimmers are from NCAP Marymount, NCAP Alexandria and NCAP West. OP, if I were you I would set up meetings with the coaches at NCAP Marymount, NCAP Alexandria and AAC and arrange for your swimmer to join a practice with the group he would be placed in at each location.

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Isn’t the Marymount coach in a scandal right now?

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Anonymous wrote:AAC is your cheapest option with the best practice times. Coach is great

They will not specialize your kid like NCAP.

And I think it would be better to know what kid of cuts does your kid make currently.

2 back is probably his best event at 1:53, goes 1:45 in 2 free and 1:56 in 2 fly. He is currently a freshman. AAC does appear to have some strong swimmers in 15/16 age group.

So there are only like 10 boys in the country with those kinds of times. The only club that is going to be able to work with that kind of talent would be NCAP and honestly it would be a disservice to your son to be at any other club in this area. AAC has one strong boy in the 15-16 range and his parent is his coach which I think explains a lot of his success. You would not get the same treatment.

Did you misspell county with country?

Per USA swimming data: This year there are only 41 14 y/o boys with USA swimming times under 1:54 in the 200 back, 1 from PVS.

Just in case you can't count, 41 is one more than 4 times 10.

Just in case you can’t manage context, this is fourth grade level “I think I’m being smart, but I’m an aware doofus” stuff.