Divisionals

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the stroke and turn was making calls against a specific team. Is that true?

Assuming we are talking about D3, where the official was removed I absolutely disagree that it was against a specific team. Although one team did appear to be the most vocally challenging the decisions.

Almost wish we stuck around for that but we left after backstroke. Some parents mentioned there were a lot of DQs during breast, including two swimmers false starting at the same time but I didn’t hear about the official being removed.

The false start was unrelated but did appear to cause a significant delay and a lot of angst. They stopped the meet to identify alternates.

[Anonymous]

D9 divisionals was amazing. Meet was consistently ahead of schedule. They did preorders and no custom stuff for the shirts which was great and they were really nice shirts and inexpensive.

Absolutely no drama.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was very impressed with division 6. Very well organized. Great food. Took care of their volunteers. Parking was smooth and efficient. Everyone was friendly and welcoming. Loved the changing cabanas for the swimmers- nice to have if you didn’t lug your own. Lots of shaded spectator seating. Nice signage. They put a lot of effort into it and it showed. Thank you Pinecrest!

Another Div 6 parent. Agree, it went really well. The t-shirt vendor was good, although pricey. Picked the color, design and was done in 5-7 minutes top from the time I got to the front to paying. Much better operation than PVS 12&U champs.

Only concern is how shallow the diving end for 50/100. We were told at some points it was only 2 1/2 to 3 feet.

This was a great trial for All-Stars next year.

They even found a way to deal with this. They overfilled the pool to the absolute brim adding at least another half foot of water. Looking at the leaderboard, it wasn’t an issue at all - especially with those 15-18 girls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

Where did spectators and parents use the bathroom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

Where did spectators and parents use the bathroom?

Solutions included adult diapers, trees and Gatorade bottles, yay NVSL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

Where did spectators and parents use the bathroom?

They had two banks of actually decent port a potties

[Anonymous]

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D9 divisionals was amazing. Meet was consistently ahead of schedule. They did preorders and no custom stuff for the shirts which was great and they were really nice shirts and inexpensive.

Absolutely no drama.

Agree! AFC did a great job hosting and after a couple of years having really bad pools (as in the pools being in bad shape) it was really appreciated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

Where did spectators and parents use the bathroom?

They had two banks of actually decent port a potties

A pool that has to do that has no business hosting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

In MCSL swimmers are allowed to swim 4 strokes, not 2 like NVSL. Which means there are fewer swimmers per team. I'm guessing this is why you had to get porta potties? So many more swimmers and families? Our mcsl divisional pool bathroom was never crowded. Fwiw I like the NVSL method better--more kids get to swim in divisionals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A changing cabana is basically a really tall narrow tent that a swimmer can stand in to change. A lot of kids choose to suit up at bigger meets and can use the tent to change into their racing suit and out of it before and between races

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before-- though maybe it is at the division A/B levels? Plenty of kids in tech suits at divisionals yesterday, but they didn't change.

The bathrooms were reserved for officials, so they provided a bank of cabanas for kids to change into tech suits. But they weren’t like the cheap, narrow pop up tents that you see at all stars. They were like the nice changing cabanas at Metro Swim. My DD actually preferred it to changing in the bathroom.

In MCSL swimmers are allowed to swim 4 strokes, not 2 like NVSL. Which means there are fewer swimmers per team. I'm guessing this is why you had to get porta potties? So many more swimmers and families? Our mcsl divisional pool bathroom was never crowded. Fwiw I like the NVSL method better--more kids get to swim in divisionals.

It isn’t typical for nvsl Divisionals to have porta potties.

[Anonymous]

Div 8 here. Rolling Hills was AWESOME. They have the best DJs in NVSL-- two dads who (I was told) do this professionally. It was probably the best run divisionals that I have attended. Great food, cute t-shirt, no lines, lots of parking and space inside to sit. Thank you to any Rolling Hills parents reading this post! I hope we are in your division forever!

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Anonymous wrote:Only 30 min behind schedule. One team had lots of drama. Looking forward to not being in the same division as them next year.

Now we wait for the oh so secret seeding meeting. 🙄🤣

I'm curious if we were at the same meet.....

Maybe…

3?

Nope. I guess there are lots of high drama teams 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only 30 min behind schedule. One team had lots of drama. Looking forward to not being in the same division as them next year.

Now we wait for the oh so secret seeding meeting. 🙄🤣

I'm curious if we were at the same meet.....

Maybe…

3?

Nope. I guess there are lots of high drama teams 🤣

I still want to hear more about the drama.

[Anonymous]

Cardinal Hill had port a potties?