So with four meets this weekend - all of DMV swimming?

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Anonymous wrote:So we’re clear, you two most recent PPs are making fun of a kid for being slow at swimming. At least, that’s what you think you’re doing: adults making fun of kids.

Nope, I’m giving it right back to the parent being unnecessarily critical of fast swimmers who are goal-oriented and care about things like champs cuts. My kid has plenty of teammates who don’t make champs cuts but you know what their parents don’t do, talk sh!t about the kids making cuts to make themselves feel better about their kid’s performance. The first poster was actually the adult making fun of kids.

Well, all the rest of us with kids who are in the Slower than B category saw it too. And yes, you were mocking our kids.

No I didn’t say anything about the kids, I called out the parent, but that poster was absolutely mocking mine for caring about cuts.

If you’re either the 14:58 or 19:08 PPs, you *literally* referenced the slow times of PP’s children. If you’re not one of those PPs, my post wasn’t directed at you, so MYOFB.

The Olympics comment was snarky and uncalled for - but it’s one thing to direct that at a kid at the top of the heap. Mocking the slower ones is all kinds of garbage.

So mocking successful kids is okay? WTH people. How about this, let's not make fun of kids. Period. There I fixed it.

Sure, then don’t respond to a kid being mocked by mocking another kid. Or by mocking another kid and pretending you weren’t.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents are so often the issue in kids’ sports. My swimmer is going to one of this weekend’s meets and they have winter champs cuts, etc., so this is a chill meet for them to do some off events. They are very excited for the meet though because they have some teammates who are super close to making winter champs for the first time and want them to get to go and get the bag tags, and swag, and the whole champs meet experience. And my kid is not some outlier, their teammates are genuinely supportive of each other. The parents on the other hand….complaining to coaches, gossiping about kids and telling their kid they need to try and beat X teammate, it’s exhausting.

I have a kid on the cusp this year. They might make it, they might not. They made it on their major year last year and loved the experience so much. So they are pretty driven.

For some kids, swimming it their passion and it means a lot to them. And they support their friends that it means a lot for as well.

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What is the official name of the Winter Champs meet and how do you know if you qualify?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the official name of the Winter Champs meet and how do you know if you qualify?

Different clubs go to different invitationals. NCAP, Potomac Marlins, and RMSC all host a December championship meet.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the official name of the Winter Champs meet and how do you know if you qualify?

Different clubs go to different invitationals. NCAP, Potomac Marlins, and RMSC all host a December championship meet.

If you go to pvswim.org, go to the Meets tab and then click on schedule it gives you the list of the upcoming meets. Click on whatever winter champs meet your club is going to and that will give you the meet sheet which will have the qualifying times on it.

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The big ones are Turkey Clause, NCAP, and the Winter Classic.

Some teams will split groups amongst different champs meets to have the teams perform better.

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The big ones are Turkey Clause, NCAP, and the Winter Classic.

Some teams will split groups amongst different champs meets to have the teams perform better.

Turkey Claus is a meet specifically for the kids who didn’t make cuts for the faster meets, the events have “No Faster Than” times. It’s a fabulous meet for kids who aren’t super fast, it’s at UMD, they get bag tags, there is merch, prelims and finals, all the things that the kids that don’t make JOs, etc. sometimes miss out on.

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The big ones are Turkey Clause, NCAP, and the Winter Classic.

Some teams will split groups amongst different champs meets to have the teams perform better.

Turkey Claus is a meet specifically for the kids who didn’t make cuts for the faster meets, the events have “No Faster Than” times. It’s a fabulous meet for kids who aren’t super fast, it’s at UMD, they get bag tags, there is merch, prelims and finals, all the things that the kids that don’t make JOs, etc. sometimes miss out on.

My kid is usually in Turkey Clause on their off years and then Winter Classic on their on years. Most years at Turkey Clause she makes finals and makes her JO cuts, so it is a great meet and the pool is fast.

Winter Classic is a fast meet (not as fast as NCAP) and the only slow kids are the Marlins alternate team (the host allows for themselves to have more entries) but it is at GMU which is a bit grungy at this point.

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It's funny to see that some posters here are skeptical that some kids really do drive the train in terms of not wanting to miss a single meet or practice. I was that kid. I even made my parents drive me to meets in another state twice just so I could swim a single time trial for one event where I was close to a cut. The trials were at the end of the evening after all the finals heats had ended. Missed the cut by .03 the first time, made it the second time. My parents thought I was crazy, and I probably was... adolescent hormones and all. But it meant everything to me at the time.

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny to see that some posters here are skeptical that some kids really do drive the train in terms of not wanting to miss a single meet or practice. I was that kid. I even made my parents drive me to meets in another state twice just so I could swim a single time trial for one event where I was close to a cut. The trials were at the end of the evening after all the finals heats had ended. Missed the cut by .03 the first time, made it the second time. My parents thought I was crazy, and I probably was... adolescent hormones and all. But it meant everything to me at the time.

If you are not wired that way or have a kid wired that way it is hard to believe. It really is a form of crazy (I have a crazy kid for swim). It took a long time for people to realize I was not pushing my kid and sometimes trying to rein them in.