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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are different options out there.  For example, in Northern Maryland there are AAU.  I am not exactly sure how that works.  Montgomery County is lumped into AAU with Northern Virginia, but all the teams around here are USA Swimming.  I think there are more AAU in Northern Virginia.  Here in MOCO USA Swimming is competitive Olympics oriented swimming.  I was looking into AAU, because my daughter is in AAU basketball, and I prefer the parent coach-oriented style.  [b]There is a trend towards AAU in swimming since the pandemic[/b] basically locked many 8yo groups out of the competitive clubs.  They weren't in the pool at all, except the ones that were in very young.  Many of the competitive programs are forgoing USA Swimming fees.  USA Swimming lost like 18,000 swimmers during the pandemic and haven't recovered.  The swim meets are a miserable waste of time, I would rather be swimming myself.[/quote]

Interesting - tell me more about this trend, I was completely unaware of it and I'm not coming up with much w/ my searches.[/quote]

https://swimswam.com/shifting-tides-swim-teams-weight-splitting-membership-between-usa-swimming-aau/[/quote]

Some valid points made in the article but I don't see this shift to AAU happening to any great extent around here at this time...

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Yeah, it is missing around here.

I think RMSC should really be AAU.  They really aren't an Olympic caliber organization for most of their swimmers.  [b]Would really keep costs down.[/b][/quote]

But would it, though?

The difference in annual membership is $80 - $20 for AAU and $100 for USA swimming.  But this is only a small fraction of the overall costs associated with swimming - coach salaries, facility use costs and meet costs are all going to be the same so how is this keeping costs down?

Look 80 bucks is 80 bucks and they could save each individual this amount annually and with the exception of their advanced/national groups, they could reasonably do this but what what is the advantage?

There already is S&T and SwiMontgomery which are essentially run by RMSC coaches which cover the "no meet" / "less serious" option that some want; I don't think these kids need to have a USA swimming membership so that's not a cost for them.

What am I missing?[/quote]

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