NVSL A meets

[Anonymous]

Can we just collectively revisit the person who said releasing rosters on Thursday was dangerous?

We're just going to gloss over that?

[Anonymous]

Email notification goes out to the whole team on Wednesday from the coaches, not the team reps. Kids find out Friday at practice what they are swimming.

[Anonymous]

Hunger Games style cannon and holographic projection above the pool to announce.

Top 100 team

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we just collectively revisit the person who said releasing rosters on Thursday was dangerous?

We're just going to gloss over that?

I have two theories here on what the previous poster was grasping at. Either (a) it gives kids (and parents) too much time to plot physical harm against rivals or (b) it doesn't allow kids enough time to focus in on the specific events they are going to swim, making it more "dangerous" for them personally. "If only Johnny had known on Tuesday that he was swimming backstroke this weekend, he could have focused on his stroke count from the flags. Instead, he practiced all his strokes Tuesday through Thursday and ended up crashing into the wall and giving himself a concussion on Saturday."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we just collectively revisit the person who said releasing rosters on Thursday was dangerous?

We're just going to gloss over that?

I have two theories here on what the previous poster was grasping at. Either (a) it gives kids (and parents) too much time to plot physical harm against rivals or (b) it doesn't allow kids enough time to focus in on the specific events they are going to swim, making it more "dangerous" for them personally. "If only Johnny had known on Tuesday that he was swimming backstroke this weekend, he could have focused on his stroke count from the flags. Instead, he practiced all his strokes Tuesday through Thursday and ended up crashing into the wall and giving himself a concussion on Saturday."

Could give little Timmy time to call in a favor so HE could swim instead.

[Anonymous]

We send out meet entries to families Wednesday evening or Thursday morning so we can confirm kids listed are still available and make any necessary changes before we need to lock in entries with the other team Thursday evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We send out meet entries to families Wednesday evening or Thursday morning so we can confirm kids listed are still available and make any necessary changes before we need to lock in entries with the other team Thursday evening.

This is what our team has started doing as well. It makes so much more sense, especially as you’re able to confirm kids are actually going to be at the meet BEFORE the data exchange when it’s much harder to make changes and fill lanes. We had several seasons where they didn’t share until Friday morning and we ended up with empty lanes.

It’s also much easier to fill volunteer spots when families know Wednesday night if their kid is swimming vs Friday morning.

[Anonymous]

That dangerous comment made my morning! I'm still laughing.

I agree with everyone else, we've done some combination of Wednesday/Thursday/Friday over the years. Sometimes they send a roster out on Wednesday to double check availability (especially for 4th of July weekend). Then entries come out later.

Coach told my kids what they were swimming at practice this morning.

Once the first meet is set, it's easier to figure out if your kid will swim. But it's never easy being the bubble kid...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get the roster on Tuesday afternoon and events on Thursday afternoon. It changes week to week so don’t expect anything until after the meet on Monday.

Then you are not swimming NVSL - NVSL A meets are Saturdays.

Our pool generally announces A meet swimmers on Thursdays.

This…is just wrong and dangerous. NVSL here: We get rosters on Tue/Wed. Events on Thu/Fri. Just depending on coaches/ reps schedule. This is in prep for Saturday’s meet.

Whoever posted this should apologize.

I'm so confused about what the apology should be... we get our roster Friday. You could also guess based on the published ladder.

[Anonymous]

Our team has a deadline to declare availability by Monday ... but they often spend Tuesday sending reminders and querying individual families.

Entries for that Saturday are decided on Wednesday, and sent to the team Weds evening or Thurs morning.

Then they spend Thursday and Friday pestering everyone with a swimmer in the meet to sign up for a volunteer slot.

Monday night B Meet sign-ups are due Sunday at noon, b/c we don't allow swimmers to compete on Monday if they placed in that event on Saturday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our team has a deadline to declare availability by Monday ... but they often spend Tuesday sending reminders and querying individual families.

Entries for that Saturday are decided on Wednesday, and sent to the team Weds evening or Thurs morning.

Then they spend Thursday and Friday pestering everyone with a swimmer in the meet to sign up for a volunteer slot.

Monday night B Meet sign-ups are due Sunday at noon, b/c we don't allow swimmers to compete on Monday if they placed in that event on Saturday.

Let me guess, some kids are swimming the same event Saturday and Monday because picking a new event would be too dangerous?

[Anonymous]

Maybe it has been mentioned but do teams in NVSL use SwimTopia? Parents can mark their kid as available or not for an A meet in SwimTopia then when someone on the team loads the kids’ events for that A meet, SwimTopia shows the events for parents to see. All this emailing and calling around to every family sounds very Manual and time consuming.

[Anonymous]

We only tell kids when they head to clerk of course. Lets us get volunteers out of parents whose kids suck. Give them hope until the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it has been mentioned but do teams in NVSL use SwimTopia? Parents can mark their kid as available or not for an A meet in SwimTopia then when someone on the team loads the kids’ events for that A meet, SwimTopia shows the events for parents to see. All this emailing and calling around to every family sounds very Manual and time consuming.

We do, but it's new this year so everyone is still getting used to it. Not everyone has downloaded the app. Parents still have to log in to declare availability. We don't publish the entries until everything is finalized, and parents expressed that they prefer getting an email with the info rather than a notification that the entries are published and then having to log in to look at them.

We may gradually move to a more Swimtopia- automated approach, but it'll take more than the first week to get everyone used to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we just collectively revisit the person who said releasing rosters on Thursday was dangerous?

We're just going to gloss over that?

I have two theories here on what the previous poster was grasping at. Either (a) it gives kids (and parents) too much time to plot physical harm against rivals or (b) it doesn't allow kids enough time to focus in on the specific events they are going to swim, making it more "dangerous" for them personally. "If only Johnny had known on Tuesday that he was swimming backstroke this weekend, he could have focused on his stroke count from the flags. Instead, he practiced all his strokes Tuesday through Thursday and ended up crashing into the wall and giving himself a concussion on Saturday."

I thought they meant it was dangerous misinformation to say that a team that sent rosters on Tuesday and events on Thursday couldn't be in NVSL. 😆