RMSC tryouts

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Anonymous wrote:how about junior coaches at Rockville vs KSAC?

Anonymous wrote:Rockville is a tad easier than KSAC. Not all RMSC coaches are good. Rockville senior coach sucks the big one. Horrible person and coach.

The head jr. coach is one to avoid.

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Anonymous wrote:how about junior coaches at Rockville vs KSAC?

Anonymous wrote:Rockville is a tad easier than KSAC. Not all RMSC coaches are good. Rockville senior coach sucks the big one. Horrible person and coach.

How are the junior coaches at MLK?

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Anonymous wrote:how about junior coaches at Rockville vs KSAC?

Anonymous wrote:Rockville is a tad easier than KSAC. Not all RMSC coaches are good. Rockville senior coach sucks the big one. Horrible person and coach.

How are the junior coaches at MLK?

People I know at MLK seem happy. I'm not hearing its as bad as the KSAC. The KSAC Senior coaches are very good and may be worth tolerating the Jr. coach if the location is better but be warned the location may move to Silver Spring.

Basically try out at as many locations as you can. I don't have a fast swimmer but we got lucky where only a few kids tried out at that location for that age group. MLK and Olney are easier to get into. KSAC is very hard. It used to be easier to when they had two try outs - spring and summer and easiest was to get in during the spring session when fewer would try out due to summer team starting. But, keep trying. It took us maybe 3 cycles of trying out at multiple pools. We did county Stroke and Turn classes. City of Rockville also had higher level classes till you can get in if you are willing to travel.

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Anonymous wrote:how about junior coaches at Rockville vs KSAC?

Anonymous wrote:Rockville is a tad easier than KSAC. Not all RMSC coaches are good. Rockville senior coach sucks the big one. Horrible person and coach.

How are the junior coaches at MLK?

People I know at MLK seem happy. I'm not hearing its as bad as the KSAC. The KSAC Senior coaches are very good and may be worth tolerating the Jr. coach if the location is better but be warned the location may move to Silver Spring.

Basically try out at as many locations as you can. I don't have a fast swimmer but we got lucky where only a few kids tried out at that location for that age group. MLK and Olney are easier to get into. KSAC is very hard. It used to be easier to when they had two try outs - spring and summer and easiest was to get in during the spring session when fewer would try out due to summer team starting. But, keep trying. It took us maybe 3 cycles of trying out at multiple pools. We did county Stroke and Turn classes. City of Rockville also had higher level classes till you can get in if you are willing to travel.

Thank you! It seems that one can’t tryout at more than two locations. All tryouts for each age group at different locations on the same day are offered at the same time and there are only two tryout days.

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Anonymous wrote:how about junior coaches at Rockville vs KSAC?

Anonymous wrote:Rockville is a tad easier than KSAC. Not all RMSC coaches are good. Rockville senior coach sucks the big one. Horrible person and coach.

How are the junior coaches at MLK?

People I know at MLK seem happy. I'm not hearing its as bad as the KSAC. The KSAC Senior coaches are very good and may be worth tolerating the Jr. coach if the location is better but be warned the location may move to Silver Spring.

Basically try out at as many locations as you can. I don't have a fast swimmer but we got lucky where only a few kids tried out at that location for that age group. MLK and Olney are easier to get into. KSAC is very hard. It used to be easier to when they had two try outs - spring and summer and easiest was to get in during the spring session when fewer would try out due to summer team starting. But, keep trying. It took us maybe 3 cycles of trying out at multiple pools. We did county Stroke and Turn classes. City of Rockville also had higher level classes till you can get in if you are willing to travel.

Thank you! It seems that one can’t tryout at more than two locations. All tryouts for each age group at different locations on the same day are offered at the same time and there are only two tryout days.

That is how it was in the past. I'd pick MLK and Olney if you don't have a top swimmer as they are less crowded.

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Anonymous wrote:Are RMSC tryouts for both the developmental and advanced practice groups? How fast does a 10 year old girl need to be to get in (more or less)? The KSAC and MLK sites are closest to us, probably about equidistant.

The 10 year olds aren’t trying out for a developmental group, they are looking at juniors and advanced juniors. Generally MLK is easier to get into than KSAC. At age 10, I would say having B times is probably the baseline you would want to have to get in.

Are there time standards for 25yds?

They should be doing 50's, not 25 at that age.

Sorry, I am not op. My child is 8 and hasn’t done many 50s at meets

If your child is 8 (and not turning 9 sometime this summer) and legal in all 4 strokes, they should be able to make minis.

RMSC’s age cut off deadline is the end of the calendar year

It's December 1st. Just clarifying in case of December birthdays

Correct. We have a December 15 birthday and we’re told to enroll in Juniors again. My kid would love to keep practicing with her friend that is a year younger and the coach they know well, but what happens at meets? My kid will have to swim as a Senior after December 15, so who is the coach they would look for? The coach that would watch them swim and give feedback? Def not their Junior coach