Any word on the new NVSL rules for the summer?

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Anonymous wrote:Time trials was maskless fun for our team today. Tough conversations this week to prepare for next week and what that team will want. 🤪

Great time trials for our division 3 team today. Not a mask in sight. Felt like real life.

Ours was a bit disorganized. Slow, but yet chaotic at times. After a year away I think a lot of people didn’t know what they were doing.

disogranized, slow and chaotic is every time trial

Yes, I’ve been through many, but usually we at least have a working starter system. 🤷‍♂️

Yep. Our was slow! Rain Thursday/Friday prevented us from testing our starter systems. But there were virtually no masks, kids had a blast, did cheers in the team area, clerk of course was normal and crowded. Wonderful morning!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Time trials was maskless fun for our team today. Tough conversations this week to prepare for next week and what that team will want. 🤪

Great time trials for our division 3 team today. Not a mask in sight. Felt like real life.

Ours was a bit disorganized. Slow, but yet chaotic at times. After a year away I think a lot of people didn’t know what they were doing.

disogranized, slow and chaotic is every time trial

Yes, I’ve been through many, but usually we at least have a working starter system. 🤷‍♂️

Yep. Our was slow! Rain Thursday/Friday prevented us from testing our starter systems. But there were virtually no masks, kids had a blast, did cheers in the team area, clerk of course was normal and crowded. Wonderful morning!

What did you do without a starter system?

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Anonymous wrote:Time trials was maskless fun for our team today. Tough conversations this week to prepare for next week and what that team will want. 🤪

Great time trials for our division 3 team today. Not a mask in sight. Felt like real life.

Ours was a bit disorganized. Slow, but yet chaotic at times. After a year away I think a lot of people didn’t know what they were doing.

disogranized, slow and chaotic is every time trial

Yes, I’ve been through many, but usually we at least have a working starter system. 🤷‍♂️

Yep. Our was slow! Rain Thursday/Friday prevented us from testing our starter systems. But there were virtually no masks, kids had a blast, did cheers in the team area, clerk of course was normal and crowded. Wonderful morning!

What did you do without a starter system?

We had one for time trials. Rain just prevented us from getting it tested abs practice setting up everything ahead of time.

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Anonymous wrote:Time trials was maskless fun for our team today. Tough conversations this week to prepare for next week and what that team will want. 🤪

Great time trials for our division 3 team today. Not a mask in sight. Felt like real life.

Ours was a bit disorganized. Slow, but yet chaotic at times. After a year away I think a lot of people didn’t know what they were doing.

disogranized, slow and chaotic is every time trial

Yes, I’ve been through many, but usually we at least have a working starter system. 🤷‍♂️

Yep. Our was slow! Rain Thursday/Friday prevented us from testing our starter systems. But there were virtually no masks, kids had a blast, did cheers in the team area, clerk of course was normal and crowded. Wonderful morning!

What did you do without a starter system?

We had one for time trials. Rain just prevented us from getting it tested abs practice setting up everything ahead of time.

I see. Thank you. We didn’t have one so we had to improvise.

For time trials do teams generally use certified officials?

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We had one for time trials. Rain just prevented us from getting it tested abs practice setting up everything ahead of time.

I see. Thank you. We didn’t have one so we had to improvise.

For time trials do teams generally use certified officials?

At our pool, we do use certified officials for time trials.

Overall, I think yesterday went really well. It was a little slow; we seem to have a lot of 8 and unders this year so multiple heats of kids who aren't used to the process yet and the usual rash of DQs in back/breast/fly slowing things down. Heats definitely started moving faster once we hit the 11+ kids in each stroke. But my kid had some good swims and I think everyone really had fun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

We had one for time trials. Rain just prevented us from getting it tested abs practice setting up everything ahead of time.

I see. Thank you. We didn’t have one so we had to improvise.

For time trials do teams generally use certified officials?

At our pool, we do use certified officials for time trials.

Overall, I think yesterday went really well. It was a little slow; we seem to have a lot of 8 and unders this year so multiple heats of kids who aren't used to the process yet and the usual rash of DQs in back/breast/fly slowing things down. Heats definitely started moving faster once we hit the 11+ kids in each stroke. But my kid had some good swims and I think everyone really had fun.

I have never understood why the dq documentation process has to slow meets down so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

We had one for time trials. Rain just prevented us from getting it tested abs practice setting up everything ahead of time.

I see. Thank you. We didn’t have one so we had to improvise.

For time trials do teams generally use certified officials?

At our pool, we do use certified officials for time trials.

Overall, I think yesterday went really well. It was a little slow; we seem to have a lot of 8 and unders this year so multiple heats of kids who aren't used to the process yet and the usual rash of DQs in back/breast/fly slowing things down. Heats definitely started moving faster once we hit the 11+ kids in each stroke. But my kid had some good swims and I think everyone really had fun.

I have never understood why the dq documentation process has to slow meets down so much.

If you staff multiple refs then it goes much faster.

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I have never understood why the dq documentation process has to slow meets down so much.

Not snarky but are you an official or have you ever seen a dq slip? The judge has to provide a lot of info regarding what the infraction was since its provided to the team rep and coach. They need to be able to describe the infraction to the ref or chief judge and determine if it was clear or a judgment call. They need to confirm they wrote down the right heat and event so they don’t accidentally dq the wrong kid. Early in the season as a PP alluded, a single judge might be writing up slips on two or even three kids, esp 8&U.

It helps a lot if you have a chief judge to work with the ref but it still can take time.

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Anonymous wrote:So is it still on the table? Or a definite no?

All-star Relays? That’s a no and off the table.

All other meets are a “go”.

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Anonymous wrote:So is it still on the table? Or a definite no?

All-star Relays? That’s a no and off the table.

All other meets are a “go”.

ridiculous. Covid cases are extremely low in this area; they could easily require masks for all-star relays. Let's get back to normal, folks.

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Going to an a meet tomorrow with no spectators allowed. Seems like it all depends on the pool.

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Anonymous wrote:Going to an a meet tomorrow with no spectators allowed. Seems like it all depends on the pool.

Yeah, at our A meet tomorrow there are zero restrictions. Our team is still wearing masks in our team area, but the team hosting is not requiring that. Spectators are a-ok.

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Do we know when a decision will be made about Divisionals and individual All Stars?

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Anonymous wrote:Do we know when a decision will be made about Divisionals and individual All Stars?

That has already been made. See the last post on 6/14. All meets are on except for all-star relays.

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Yeah B meets wouldn’t happened if any restrictions still existed. 🤣🤣 Ours was super crowded, no masks or distancing.