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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering if this is a scammy money grab or legit honor? If your child qualifies, does your club team notify you or is it on the parents to navigate?[/quote]
It’s definitely a money grab, it’s a slight step up from PVS JOs. Using the 10 and under girls 50 back as an example, the PVS JO cut was 38.29, the 10 year old ISCA cut was 36.69, the 10 and under Zone cut was 35.29, and the 10 year old NCSA cut was 34.39. Our club does Zones or NCSAs, and they notified the families of the kids that qualified and provided information about the meets. It was not club travel, so it was on us to make the travel arrangements.[/quote]

The PP above has given a good summary of where the meet falls and others have given good feedback. Key to note: most teams do ISCA or NCSA. It's not usually parent choice. It may be parent travel, as another PP has indicated but that's very different than an athlete/parent choosing to attend or not attend a certain meet. My kids have qualified for a number of meets our team does not attend and thus they didn't go. They wouldn't want to anyway as, like other PP mentioned, part of the "lure" of these meets is the team aspect and being away with other kids on your team you enjoy.[/quote]
+1, this is important to note. Your club generally dictates which of the post-JO champs meets your swimmer can attend. A good thing about these higher level champs meets for the age groupers is that they allow bonus events, so if you qualify in only 1 event they will let you add bonus events to fill out a whole meet so you’re not going all the way to Florida for just a 50 free or something. My swimmer is 11 and they love travel meets, staying in the hotel with their friends, getting the bag tags, sweatshirts, etc. [/quote]

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