Swim Club recommendations?

[Anonymous]

OP,

We have been KSAC/RMSC 6 plus years. DS also started at 10 and was assigned to Juniors after tryout. He was moved to Advanced Junior after one year. During the time in Juniors, Advanced Juniors Group head coach often came to give them much harder training set.


KSAC Advanced Juniors Group is really good, perhaps the best among the PVS. It is good because the coach really cares about the swimmers. He is able to motivate kids to work hard. The assistant coach is very strict but also very good. It was my son's best experience at KSAC.

If your kid joins the club just for fun/workout, then Juniors/Seniors are good enough -- but if your kid wants to join high school team to compete, you should look for a club/team that has better chance to join advanced group. KSAC is very competitive and it becomes a magnet that attracts other top swimmers from other RMSC sites to join.

[Anonymous]

OP, I've been asking around about various year round programs, and have heard from way too many people I trust that RMSC focuses almost exclusively on conditioning, with little to no technical feedback. For a sport as technical as swimming, especially for a 10 year old, that would be a hard pass for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh.Do we have to register for tryout for each location with RMSC? Thanks

http://rmscswimming.com/tryouts-2022-information-county-sites

Yes, you are supposed to tryout at the site you wish to practice at.

Yes, try out at any location you would consider a reasonable commute. There are not the same number of available slots at each site, so you may get in one but not another due to space.

[Anonymous]

We've been at RMSC/KSAC for 7 years- 2 kids, 1 in NTG and 1 in seniors. Very happy there and a good fit for both my kids. Contrary to other posters, they do get technical feedback and the Jrs coach is very nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

We have been KSAC/RMSC 6 plus years. DS also started at 10 and was assigned to Juniors after tryout. He was moved to Advanced Junior after one year. During the time in Juniors, Advanced Juniors Group head coach often came to give them much harder training set.


KSAC Advanced Juniors Group is really good, perhaps the best among the PVS. It is good because the coach really cares about the swimmers. He is able to motivate kids to work hard. The assistant coach is very strict but also very good. It was my son's best experience at KSAC.

If your kid joins the club just for fun/workout, then Juniors/Seniors are good enough -- but if your kid wants to join high school team to compete, you should look for a club/team that has better chance to join advanced group. KSAC is very competitive and it becomes a magnet that attracts other top swimmers from other RMSC sites to join.

Thank you for such a detailed reply. Do you by any chance know that how many after the try out usually they would tell the results ? For NCAP I have only very few days to reply back. So I’m very confused.

[Anonymous]

OP, we did our tryout in March 2016, the head coach of Advanced Juniors Group announced the result right after the tryout. But it has been 6 years now --- it may be very different.

You should also take consideration of reconstruction project of KSAC -- it will happen in two years -- then the location will be changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, we did our tryout in March 2016, the head coach of Advanced Juniors Group announced the result right after the tryout. But it has been 6 years now --- it may be very different.

You should also take consideration of reconstruction project of KSAC -- it will happen in two years -- then the location will be changed.

Advanced groups don’t do regular tryouts and you are giving wrong advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've been at RMSC/KSAC for 7 years- 2 kids, 1 in NTG and 1 in seniors. Very happy there and a good fit for both my kids. Contrary to other posters, they do get technical feedback and the Jrs coach is very nice.

The juniors coach is not nice and very little feedback. Lots of screaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh.Do we have to register for tryout for each location with RMSC? Thanks

Yes, you can tryout at multiple sites too

[Anonymous]

Any feedback on the RMSC MLK site? How competitive is that one to get into?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, we did our tryout in March 2016, the head coach of Advanced Juniors Group announced the result right after the tryout. But it has been 6 years now --- it may be very different.

You should also take consideration of reconstruction project of KSAC -- it will happen in two years -- then the location will be changed.

Advanced groups don’t do regular tryouts and you are giving wrong advice.

KSAC Juniors group (Juniors and Advanced Juniors) is a team --- when they do the tryout. It is the head coach of advanced juniors (as far as I know it was the case 6 years ago) who is in charge of selection along with other coaches. In some cases, some swimmers can be selected to advanced juniors group (swimmers transferred from other club). The tryout is not only limited for juniors group at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh.Do we have to register for tryout for each location with RMSC? Thanks

Yes, you can tryout at multiple sites too

How can one tryout at multiple sites? It looks like the tryouts for all the county sites are the same day and time for each age group. Am I missing something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh.Do we have to register for tryout for each location with RMSC? Thanks

Yes, you can tryout at multiple sites too

How can one tryout at multiple sites? It looks like the tryouts for all the county sites are the same day and time for each age group. Am I missing something?

There were 2 different tryout dates. For people that are planning this out in advance, I would try out at my top choice on the first tryout date and then my second choice at the second tryout date. Many of the summer swim coaches are affiliated with RMSC, so they are a good source of info as to what site your kid has the best chance to make. For example, if my kid was over age 9 and not really fast, I would probably not bother trying out at KSAC, and would instead focus on MLK or Olney, because the end game is making the team and you can get rejected at KSAC but make one of the other teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any feedback on the RMSC MLK site? How competitive is that one to get into?

Advanced Juniors is competitive; some of the kids who recently broke that national age group relay record swim there.

MLK has two other Juniors groups, though: Juniors 1 and Juniors 2. The latter is invite only but not as high level as Advanced. Juniors 1 is more introductory, though stroke familiarity is expected.

Coaches assign based on tryout (or previous performance if they’re on the RMSC MLK team). The kids I know in Advanced love their coach. The Juniors 1 and 2 coaches are really nice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I've been asking around about various year round programs, and have heard from way too many people I trust that RMSC focuses almost exclusively on conditioning, with little to no technical feedback. For a sport as technical as swimming, especially for a 10 year old, that would be a hard pass for me.

You seem to be confusing rmsc with ncap or Asa. Kids who are brought up in rmsc have excellent stroke rivaled only by kids who get their start with toll