NCAP Tysons
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Anonymous
Yes, and I don’t see how that supports your argument. The majority of Tysons Gold AM is moving to Gold 2 which costs LESS then they paid as Gold AM. Not sure how having the majority pay less next year indicates financial trouble. MU Gold 2 - 5,250 vs Gold AM 5,800 (most moving into Gold 2) |
Anonymous
| Why does Tysons not have enough swimmers to support their own Gold 1 program? |
Anonymous
I didn't post the fees to dispute your argument. I posted it because the previous poster said Tysons pays less than MU, when in fact, this is not true. |
Anonymous
They do but it’s been at MU for the last 2 years anyways so it makes sense to combine them. |
Anonymous
| My question is why can’t Tysons support a Gold 1 group at their site? |
Anonymous
| I am wondering the same thing. Do all NCAP sites combine their oldest swimmers or is there a reason why the Tysons site needs to? |
Anonymous
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Here’s the thing: the reason there are so many questions in this thread is because NCap is never transparent about its decision-making.
If you just use logic, a truly stellar Gold1 coach would never get shuttled to a different site to be a Gold2 coach, and if there are enough kids to fund two Gold groups they would do it for the money. |
Anonymous
I thought everyone has been saying that Tyson’s AM was the equivalent of Gold 2, so isn’t he just making a lateral move rather than a step down? |
Anonymous
Multiple NCAP sites do this. Holton Arms fastest swimmers move to AU at age 13 (Holton’s only group for HS swimmers is Gold 3). Dulles South and Claude Moore have the same type of set up where Dulles South’s fastest swimmers go to Claude Moore by 13 or 14 (although to make it confusing some of the Claude Moore training groups’ practices are at Dulles South). West is also set up this way, all their fastest swimmers move into one group at Freedom Center at age 13, and then the fastest of those kids end up in Gold 1 at Vint Hill in HS. |
Anonymous
| It seems like Spencer should have hosted some sort of Zoom meeting to explain all of this to impacted families and explain how this benefits all swimmers. I can’t speak for Tyson families but families of Gold 2 swimmers at MU are highly irritated and looking at alternative options. |
Anonymous
Can I ask any Gold 2 families - how large is your practice group? If not a lot of TY Gold AM swimmers move to Gold 1, and the majority of MU Gold 2 move to TY, that practice is going to be so large. As it is, TY kids are losing 15 minutes a day of their practice (its going down to 1:45 from 2:00 M-F). based on th e-mail I've seen of the new schedule. I guess it's made up in the cheaper dues. |
Anonymous
It will be a fairly large group from MU. A large amount of their Silver 1 group is moving up. Although the current G2 group is not huge. I am not sure how many will be willing to make the drive to Tysons especially for crowded lanes. It is a tight knit group and most are very upset over this. There is not much excitement about the move. |
Anonymous
They’ve been saying that for *years* and I think the former G2 coach at Prep thought he had been brought on to take it over from Bruce but quit after feeling led on- he was really popular and it was a huge loss. |
Anonymous
| G2 is a step-down, period. They could have kept him on until Bruce left and didn’t. Wake up. |
Anonymous
When will Gold 1 practice at MU? |