Pinecrest and IAS entry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The meet was extremely well organized. The tents on the dry grass were much nicer than on concrete- if grass had been muddy this probably would have been an issue. Volunteers did a great job of moving spectators in and out of the single event viewing area. The live stream was very well done. The pool itself leaves a lot to be desired, I noticed that most kids appeared to be adding time.

Well, except for those that broke pool records. I think there were several today.

Does Pinecrest keep pool records? I’ve never been to a NVSL pool that does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The meet was extremely well organized. The tents on the dry grass were much nicer than on concrete- if grass had been muddy this probably would have been an issue. Volunteers did a great job of moving spectators in and out of the single event viewing area. The live stream was very well done. The pool itself leaves a lot to be desired, I noticed that most kids appeared to be adding time.

Well, except for those that broke pool records. I think there were several today.

Does Pinecrest keep pool records? I’ve never been to a NVSL pool that does.

Pretty sure they meant team records.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is crazy to me that they let kids dive into such shallow water in this area. Where I grew up they stopped letting us do it in the mid 90s. The second and fourth leg of the 100 medley relay started in the water.

A girl I grew up with dove in and hit her head and became paralyzed from the waist down. This was a freak accident years after the rule change. She was a very good swimmer and lifeguard. It was a freak accident that can happen to anyone in shallow water, even if you know how to do a shallow dive. I wish they would just ban it.

Freak accidents are just that. There’s no way you can make all sports 100% safe from any chance of injury. In my 10 years at Pinecrest, we’ve never had a major incident involving the shallow dive end. We’ve had two minor incidents that required nothing more than ice.

Kids get used to it but its a problem for meets as the kids not used to it may go down too far. It does seem unsafe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The meet was extremely well organized. The tents on the dry grass were much nicer than on concrete- if grass had been muddy this probably would have been an issue. Volunteers did a great job of moving spectators in and out of the single event viewing area. The live stream was very well done. The pool itself leaves a lot to be desired, I noticed that most kids appeared to be adding time.

Well, except for those that broke pool records. I think there were several today.

Does Pinecrest keep pool records? I’ve never been to a NVSL pool that does.

Our NVSL pool does (pool, not team).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The meet was extremely well organized. The tents on the dry grass were much nicer than on concrete- if grass had been muddy this probably would have been an issue. Volunteers did a great job of moving spectators in and out of the single event viewing area. The live stream was very well done. The pool itself leaves a lot to be desired, I noticed that most kids appeared to be adding time.

Well, except for those that broke pool records. I think there were several today.

Does Pinecrest keep pool records? I’ve never been to a NVSL pool that does.

Our NVSL pool does (pool, not team).

PP - I mean we do both. Pool and team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The meet was extremely well organized. The tents on the dry grass were much nicer than on concrete- if grass had been muddy this probably would have been an issue. Volunteers did a great job of moving spectators in and out of the single event viewing area. The live stream was very well done. The pool itself leaves a lot to be desired, I noticed that most kids appeared to be adding time.

Well, except for those that broke pool records. I think there were several today.

Does Pinecrest keep pool records? I’ve never been to a NVSL pool that does.

Our NVSL pool does (pool, not team).

PP - I mean we do both. Pool and team.

Thanks. That’s cool that you do both. Which pool is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The meet was extremely well organized. The tents on the dry grass were much nicer than on concrete- if grass had been muddy this probably would have been an issue. Volunteers did a great job of moving spectators in and out of the single event viewing area. The live stream was very well done. The pool itself leaves a lot to be desired, I noticed that most kids appeared to be adding time.

Well, except for those that broke pool records. I think there were several today.

Does Pinecrest keep pool records? I’ve never been to a NVSL pool that does.

Our NVSL pool does (pool, not team).

PP - I mean we do both. Pool and team.

Thanks. That’s cool that you do both. Which pool is that?

Not PP, but Overlee keeps both: https://overlee.swimtopia.com/team-records

[Anonymous]

Pinecrest keeps team records. Not pool records.

[Anonymous]

So the big 3 parents were not allowed to just camp out in the bleachers this meet? Or does that only happen at the relay carnival?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the big 3 parents were not allowed to just camp out in the bleachers this meet? Or does that only happen at the relay carnival?

They were not. There was standing room only space where people didn’t have to leave, but the view wasn’t great. Then there was single event viewing bleachers. There was some confusion at the beginning about which line was for which event, but they worked it out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the big 3 parents were not allowed to just camp out in the bleachers this meet? Or does that only happen at the relay carnival?

It was great.

[Anonymous]

No. It was so well run. No one could stay too long, just enough to watch your kid. Thought it was extremely fair.

[Anonymous]

Pinecrest was an awesome location for All Stars. It’s well spaced out with a ton of room — I really appreciated it. The team tent area was well situated, the waiting area was setup with three lanes, and they had a nice standing area. The move in and out of the bleachers was well run. To me this was one of the better setups I have seen for that many people.

The chorizo breakfast burrito they made was pretty good too. Anyway that’s my two cents. Also lots of whiners on this thread. Wild how dramatic people can be over nothing. lol

[Anonymous]

The meet was well run and organized-kudos!

Pinecrest is an old school summer pool. Smallish clubhouse with field and tennis courts next to pool within a neighborhood. I think it proved with the right planning and organization many NVSL pools could host such an event. Parking was mainly on the neighborhood streets and spectators didn’t have bleachers on deck that they sat in the entire time. I think if Pinecrest could host such an outstanding event, then many,
many other NVSL clubs (hopefully with a deeper diving end) could host a league wide event. Whatever excuses other clubs have thrown out why they couldn’t, Pinecrest proved you wrong with IAS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The meet was well run and organized-kudos!

Pinecrest is an old school summer pool. Smallish clubhouse with field and tennis courts next to pool within a neighborhood. I think it proved with the right planning and organization many NVSL pools could host such an event. Parking was mainly on the neighborhood streets and spectators didn’t have bleachers on deck that they sat in the entire time. I think if Pinecrest could host such an outstanding event, then many,
many other NVSL clubs (hopefully with a deeper diving end) could host a league wide event. Whatever excuses other clubs have thrown out why they couldn’t, Pinecrest proved you wrong with IAS.

I agree that Pinecrest did a great job. I don't really agree that it shows many could host. Specifically with respect to parking, the neighborhoods surrounding Pinecrest all appeared to have 2 car garages with big driveways. So there was very little parking on the streets from residents and it was all 'open' for the meet. Closer in, this is simply not the case, and the streets are already heavily parked so relying on street parking for this many people would be a zoo. There is also a pool much further out- maybe virginia run, that has an ordinance that doesn't allow parking within 10 feet of someone's mailbox- which similarly really restricts on street parking availability.
Pinecrest had a huge field to set up tent city. It was very nice. I don't actually think that many pools have fields that large. Also, I am very glad it was dry and not muddy- if it had been muddy it would have been a huge mess and the field would have been completely destroyed.