It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets. |
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April. So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized. Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend. |
The Maryland NCAP sites were at the NOVA meet in Richmond this weekend. |
Some are franchised and some aren’t. |
+1, Burke is its own franchise so if you have an issue with the small number of LC meets their 12 and unders are able to swim it that is something to take up with the head person at Burke. |
Burke is definitely the outlier with the number of meets available for the 12Us. It looks like most sites offer at least 4 meets before champs. The Maryland NoVA, and Loudoun sites probably have the most. NCAP West does some meets that others don’t because of where they are located, in addition to May Magic last weekend their 12Us have a meet in Stafford, an outdoor meet in Winchester, and then one of the LC Opens. |
Burke is the original site and the head coach (Pete Morgan) is at Burke. I wonder if they kept Burke a franchise because of potential liability when they created NCAP from Curl-Burke (as a means of protecting NCAP the entity from any vicarious liability, maybe?), or if it involves coaching contracts and insurance. |