NVSL: Any teams noticing drops in registrations?

[Anonymous]

Just for comparison, suburban Atlanta schools get out around 5/22 and go back 8/1-8/4. Here is the ASA schedule, with the champs meets coming the two weeks after the regular season:

https://swimtopia.s3.amazonaws.com/792/snippet_files/8306f82e4fa76eed41f658a4c59d9cd140878d0b/original/ASA_Combined_Oficial_Schedule_2025.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI2FHZS6UHHRIYX6Q&Expires=1746929408&Signature=y1U2NOZD5WRiCSKMJrmsmX%2BUKV0%3D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8am practices don't work for us anymore and we ar3 tired of B meets. Kid feels like it's a waste of time when he would rather sleep in

B meets are one night of the week...

but I get it, swim team isn't for everyone. This is honestly why, as a team rep, I don't bend over backwards to accommodate every family. I figure if the kids and family care enough, as we did, they will make it work. If they don't care they will make 100 excuses they they just can't do swim team.

NP. You're absolutely right- I know that our team reps are worried about volunteers for weeknight B meets though. From what they say it has been a LOT easier to fill the early concessions and timer slots in recent years when more parents were teleworking. I know I personally will be less likely to sign up for those this year because of RTO, and less likely to do sign up for extra jobs. So it goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8am practices don't work for us anymore and we ar3 tired of B meets. Kid feels like it's a waste of time when he would rather sleep in

B meets are one night of the week...

but I get it, swim team isn't for everyone. This is honestly why, as a team rep, I don't bend over backwards to accommodate every family. I figure if the kids and family care enough, as we did, they will make it work. If they don't care they will make 100 excuses they they just can't do swim team.

NP. You're absolutely right- I know that our team reps are worried about volunteers for weeknight B meets though. From what they say it has been a LOT easier to fill the early concessions and timer slots in recent years when more parents were teleworking. I know I personally will be less likely to sign up for those this year because of RTO, and less likely to do sign up for extra jobs. So it goes.

The early time slots are always the most popular at our pool, and I don't see that changing this year. People will leave work early on Mondays to accommodate B meets. And yes, I know some feds can't right now. But a lot of people still can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8am practices don't work for us anymore and we ar3 tired of B meets. Kid feels like it's a waste of time when he would rather sleep in

B meets are one night of the week...

but I get it, swim team isn't for everyone. This is honestly why, as a team rep, I don't bend over backwards to accommodate every family. I figure if the kids and family care enough, as we did, they will make it work. If they don't care they will make 100 excuses they they just can't do swim team.

NP. You're absolutely right- I know that our team reps are worried about volunteers for weeknight B meets though. From what they say it has been a LOT easier to fill the early concessions and timer slots in recent years when more parents were teleworking. I know I personally will be less likely to sign up for those this year because of RTO, and less likely to do sign up for extra jobs. So it goes.

The early time slots are always the most popular at our pool, and I don't see that changing this year. People will leave work early on Mondays to accommodate B meets. And yes, I know some feds can't right now. But a lot of people still can.

That's good. Our pool has a lot of Fed families so maybe a bit different. Again, I heard this from our reps who have been around a while, I don't really know. They can probably recruit some strong teens into setup at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pool partners with Pros to You to offer a full day camp on site. Kids can attend morning swim practice and then a counselor picks them up to go down the steps to camp. And it’s reasonably priced.

Do you have any idea how this got set up? I would love to see if we can work on this for our pool.

[Anonymous]

Our team is down about 30 registrations. The club is down about 18 memberships compared to 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our team is down about 30 registrations. The club is down about 18 memberships compared to 2024.

Location is also helpful. Springfield? Centreville? Arlington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our team is down about 30 registrations. The club is down about 18 memberships compared to 2024.

Location is also helpful. Springfield? Centreville? Arlington?

Springfield

[Anonymous]

Pool in McLean with waitlist. We opened up registration earlier and held it open longer and just were able to match last year's numbers. Signups were much slower towards the beginning of the registration period for us and gradually trickled in.

[Anonymous]

We have the same numbers as usual and have some new kids joining the team as they finally got in off the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

I think Springfield struggles with so many pools in that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think Springfield struggles with so many pools in that area.

This is very true. I know families that move between pools because they can. In the Arlington/falls church area all pools have such long waitlists that this never happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our team is down about 30 registrations. The club is down about 18 memberships compared to 2024.

We were similar last year but not down memberships, so this summer our pool is allowing waitlist families’ kids to join swim, dive and tennis.

It’s slightly annoying for kids who waited years for their turns while they were on the waitlist but we have some gaps in certain age groups (probably the impact of the waitlist in the first place!) so most people supported the board’s decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our team is down about 30 registrations. The club is down about 18 memberships compared to 2024.

We were similar last year but not down memberships, so this summer our pool is allowing waitlist families’ kids to join swim, dive and tennis.

It’s slightly annoying for kids who waited years for their turns while they were on the waitlist but we have some gaps in certain age groups (probably the impact of the waitlist in the first place!) so most people supported the board’s decision.

Are you a NVSL team? This violates NVSL rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our team is down about 30 registrations. The club is down about 18 memberships compared to 2024.

We were similar last year but not down memberships, so this summer our pool is allowing waitlist families’ kids to join swim, dive and tennis.

It’s slightly annoying for kids who waited years for their turns while they were on the waitlist but we have some gaps in certain age groups (probably the impact of the waitlist in the first place!) so most people supported the board’s decision.

We’d have to increase our membership by about 80 families before we’d start a waitlist.