RMSC tryout results 2022
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Anonymous
| We finally got an answer from one of the county sites but had to email multiple times. I don’t think we would have gotten an answer otherwise. |
Anonymous
Sigh - they just don't get it - it is so sad |
Anonymous
My kid turned 8 during Covid so she didn’t have the chance to do 8U and joined a club at 9. Based on our experience, I would say that an 8 year old should do one of the club’s developmental programs before trying to join the competition team. There are some NCAP sites that have either a developmental program or a competition level that is geared toward the 8U set where they just do mini meets; and Tollefson has a developmental stroke school as well. My kid at 9 was a good athlete with summer swim experience so did ok, but she lucked out and got a coach after a few months that did real stroke work and by the end of the SC season she was close to JO cuts as an older 9 year old and qualified for the LC champs as a new 10 year old. She would not have done near as well without the proper stroke coaching. |
Anonymous
I hope they continue to like swimming. My college swimmer did not swim year round until he was in 6th grade. |
Anonymous
You just don’t get it. Technique is important. My kid does not compete and does it for fun and exercise. But, rmsc does not work on technique. |
Anonymous
For better or worse that was many years ago. It’s hard to break into competitive swimming now after age 10 unless you are someone with innate talent because clubs don’t kick kids out once they have joined the club, and they are full of kids that joined at 8U. My kid loves swim, we don’t force her to swim, we have to pull her back when she wants to go to every practice that is offered. |
Anonymous
If you belong to a local pool, usually one of the older swimmers or coaches on the summer swim team is a good place to find someone. Lifeguards too. As for burnout, the lessons are not typically intense. It's more about working on a particular technique. My son knows he can quit anytime he wants, the lessons are not stressful at all. He loves swim practices too. |
Anonymous
I’m sorry your coach doesn’t, but our swimmers’ coaches absolutely work on technique. |
Anonymous
As for the first PP who apparently doesn't get it - I absolutely get it. If you want to pretend that burnout among young athletes isn't a thing, you do you. I know far too many kids who developed shoulder injuries before they became teens, got fed up and exhausted with the early mornings, etc. All started club swimming 8&U. The idea that you need to start that young to ever be successful isn't true. There are tradeoffs that come with starting at different ages and choosing one program over another, for sure. But thinking there's one path to success is garbage. |
Anonymous
You can skip the morning sessions. Our rmsc coach does no technique. |
Anonymous
I think this is so true for any sport! I'm so frustrated that my 8 y.o.s friends are moving to travel soccer/baseball etc. so soon. There is plenty of competition in the house leagues at their age. My son is a very good athlete, often the best on the team and he was the top 8U swimmer on the team this year with all star times in several strokes. But - he is 8 - and I want him to continue to try everything that he is interested in there. In most cases an athletically inclined and coordinated 8 yo will still be that way at 11 or 12. And who knows? He may find that some random sport he tries at 10 is the one he wants to stick with. I'd rather him find that out rather than specializing in something too early and risking injury or burn out. We all played a different sport each season until well into middle school and that's when kids started to settle on one sport or another. The only thing that has changed since we were kids is that adults have found a way to monetize parents desire for their kids to be "the best" by creating travel teams for little kids and telling parents that one must do club swim at age 7. |
Anonymous
Some of this is on you. We have not done meets at RMSC in the juniors program for two years and its been fine. No one forced us to do meets and were supportive when we'd pull our kids out when covid was bad/no distancing/precautions. Usually its more the parental pressure vs. coaches. In RMSC, most of the groups at the lower levels are so big the coaches really only care about the top kids who are going to move up so all that pressure is from you. |
Anonymous
PP here. I am not sure I understand your response to my post. What is on me? My kids plays recreational sports - a different one each season - and do only summer swim. That is what we want for them so they get to experience a wide variety of activities before they pick one to focus on. I was just lamenting the fact that my 8 y.o.s friends specializing so early is disappointing because they are no longer on his teams. There are a thousand different travel soccer teams, baseball teams and swim clubs taking little kids now. This was not happening when we were kids - these are huge money makers for these clubs - money used to produce the older kids who are the top athletes or on the top teams. |
Anonymous
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You just don’t get it. Technique is important. My kid does not compete and does it for fun and exercise. But, rmsc does not work on technique. I’m sorry your coach doesn’t, but our swimmers’ coaches absolutely work on technique. Okay hold up. We're new to swim so we missed the ability to try out for RSMC. But if they DON'T do technique, then what do they do? What's the point then? We couldn't even try out because too many were registered the week before tryouts? |
Anonymous
I’m sorry your coach doesn’t, but our swimmers’ coaches absolutely work on technique. Okay hold up. We're new to swim so we missed the ability to try out for RSMC. But if they DON'T do technique, then what do they do? What's the point then? We couldn't even try out because too many were registered the week before tryouts? We have found that the 8&Us often have technique emphasized because generally this is their first foray into year round swimming. If you join a club as an age group swimmer through (9 and up) many of the big clubs go into training assuming that you already have the strokes down and are instead focused on endurance and strength so that the swimmers can build up to the longer distances. |