Divisionals

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

This would be a bad division coordinator not picking a good S&T

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Anonymous wrote:Cardinal Hill had port a potties?

Not that I saw. Parents and swimmers used the regular facilities which were very nice. The port a potties were probably a different division.

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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.

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.

Taking it you’ve never been to all stars?

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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.

Thank you thank you!! I was very involved in the Pinecrest planning committee (was onsite from 530am until we finished cleaning up around 2)! and was so involved with concessions, I don't know if I really noticed what else was going on!

But oh goodness -- All Stars??

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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!

MCSL parent here...what's a changing cabana? I have never seen this at meets in my 8 years of being a swim parent.

Pinecrest parent here -- we bought two and borrowed two from the YMCA -- have you ever seen the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Lots of comparisons made to those!

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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

Whaaaat?!?! Doesn’t this just stretch out the suit faster? In MCSL we come dressed ready to swim. Get in and get out.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Another Division 8 parent who was super impressed with Rolling Hills yesterday. Great job all around.

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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

Whaaaat?!?! Doesn’t this just stretch out the suit faster? In MCSL we come dressed ready to swim. Get in and get out.

I do not understand the changing in and out during the course of a meet. My 11-12 kid is a club swimmer and even at the PVS champs meets the kids are not running to a bathroom to change suits between events, it’s so absurd. According to my DD her 12U tech suit is so tight that getting it on and off while wet would be a giant PITA. Apparently the 13+ kids (girls anyway) who can wear an actual tech suit will bring a bikini top to wear so that they can take the straps down.

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I felt so bad for a U8 who fell in before even being told to take your mark and then wasn't allowed to swim. It was a silly little kid slip while they were doing DQ slips from the prior heat. Poor kid was sobbing. I wished they'd just let him swim.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt so bad for a U8 who fell in before even being told to take your mark and then wasn't allowed to swim. It was a silly little kid slip while they were doing DQ slips from the prior heat. Poor kid was sobbing. I wished they'd just let him swim.

If that’s accurate it wasn’t a DQ. If it was before “take your marks” they can’t be set and therefore can’t false start. Which division was this?

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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.

Thank you thank you!! I was very involved in the Pinecrest planning committee (was onsite from 530am until we finished cleaning up around 2)! and was so involved with concessions, I don't know if I really noticed what else was going on!

But oh goodness -- All Stars??

Is Pinecrest hosting AS next year?

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Anonymous wrote:I felt so bad for a U8 who fell in before even being told to take your mark and then wasn't allowed to swim. It was a silly little kid slip while they were doing DQ slips from the prior heat. Poor kid was sobbing. I wished they'd just let him swim.

If that’s accurate it wasn’t a DQ. If it was before “take your marks” they can’t be set and therefore can’t false start. Which division was this?

Yeah I’m sure that didn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

How do they get the times for all-stars? My kid's time is a time she has never seen, and definitely not what she swam at Divisionals, but I don't want to take an opportunity away from her!

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Anonymous wrote:How do they get the times for all-stars? My kid's time is a time she has never seen, and definitely not what she swam at Divisionals, but I don't want to take an opportunity away from her!

It should be her time from Divisionals.

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Anonymous wrote:How do they get the times for all-stars? My kid's time is a time she has never seen, and definitely not what she swam at Divisionals, but I don't want to take an opportunity away from her!

It should be her time from Divisionals.

It's not and doesn't seem to be for several others on her team