How important is the “dress up” part of summer swim?

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Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of this trend, our pool doesn't do this.

Your kids have never swam against a pool that has dressed up?

PP probably doesn't have kids swimming A meets. All of the fun and pageantry of summer swim is A meets, b meets is just swimming

many teams do dress up for B meets

My kids have been swimming for over a decade now and we've never had a theme or seen a team with a theme for a B meet. Our intra-team meet at the end of the season has the same theme every year, but that's it for B meets. Meanwhile every A meet has a different theme and kids work on costumes after practice on Fridays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been swimming for over a decade now and we've never had a theme or seen a team with a theme for a B meet. Our intra-team meet at the end of the season has the same theme every year, but that's it for B meets. Meanwhile every A meet has a different theme and kids work on costumes after practice on Fridays.

Our NVSL pool does themes for B meets, that way the entire team can enjoy the fun rather than the select few who swim on Saturdays. I'd say the team is usually about 50-50 leaning especially towards the young swimmers having fun with it and when they are it's still pretty laid back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been swimming for over a decade now and we've never had a theme or seen a team with a theme for a B meet. Our intra-team meet at the end of the season has the same theme every year, but that's it for B meets. Meanwhile every A meet has a different theme and kids work on costumes after practice on Fridays.

Our NVSL pool does themes for B meets, that way the entire team can enjoy the fun rather than the select few who swim on Saturdays. I'd say the team is usually about 50-50 leaning especially towards the young swimmers having fun with it and when they are it's still pretty laid back.

Same - lots of kids and coaches participate in the themes for our B meets.

[Anonymous]

Our team does this and it’s fun. But I’m on the half that doesn’t buy anything if we don’t have it at home. They use some of the dues to purchase some of the items for people to use at party city (for example they got some eye patches when the theme was pirates). The kids seem to like it, and I would say only half or less actually come with a costume. A lot of the teenagers get more into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of this trend, our pool doesn't do this.

Your kids have never swam against a pool that has dressed up?

PP probably doesn't have kids swimming A meets. All of the fun and pageantry of summer swim is A meets, b meets is just swimming

many teams do dress up for B meets

My kids have been swimming for over a decade now and we've never had a theme or seen a team with a theme for a B meet. Our intra-team meet at the end of the season has the same theme every year, but that's it for B meets. Meanwhile every A meet has a different theme and kids work on costumes after practice on Fridays.

Our team does the same theme for the A meet and the following B meet so that all swimmers can participate. We have a fairly high percentage of participants (maybe 85%), and most teams against which we swim also have themes. Sometimes we coordinate with the other team.

[Anonymous]

Our team does this, and I think the kids enjoy it. I’ve never bought anything for it in all my kids’ years on swim team. The kids always pull together something from what they already have. It’s also no big deal if some kids don’t participate.