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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Swimming is expensive.
2. What is cost prohibitive to you is not cost prohibitive to plenty of people.  
3. They will be able to fill all practices with people that can afford this and future price increases.

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Thanks! I think it’s more than the basic supply and demand and I appreciate that many others in the area have much higher incomes. Continued increases will affect more and more folks and swimming won’t be an attainable sport for many families. USA Swimming tried to tackle rising costs when it introduced new membership levels and limited tech suits for the 12U because they understand that for the sport to flourish it has to accessible for families.  Just being a sport of the rich who can afford it is a recipe for disaster.

In our case, I’m sure it would be a hit for NCAP if we left as DS is a top swimmer in PVS and routinely swims their A relays at JOs, wins events and places in the top 5, etc. Their ‘product’ as a team decreases as they won’t have as much top talent if they price themselves out reach for families of talented swimmers.

For comparison, Mission Viejo (one of the top teams in the country) that practices outside of LA is $345/mo for the same level.  Bolles in Florida (also a top national program) is $220/mo, SwimMac in North Carolina (arguably the top team in the Nation but lower CoL) would be $300/mo for the same level. 
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