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[quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the crazy, OP. And don't let the NVSL mania get you down - it's a few people stirring a pot that only they care about. Summer swim can be the _best_ experience for kids if you roll with some of the punches. As PP noted, your away meets are determined by your team's ranking and grouping in divisions, not by geography. So some years you have a lot of commuting and some years not so much. The older the kids get the easier it becomes. Swim practice is not really for detailed stroke correction in most summer situations. It is normal for littles to DQ, and sometimes to DQ a lot, and sometimes to DQ a given stroke for multiple seasons until they get it. Coaches can help, but a few lessons are never a bad idea if DC is capable of concentrating through it. Yes, the time commitment can be real. But like anything, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it. The kids who end up feeling the most connected to the team often do two-a-days. If your team practices twice, see if you can get your kids there both times. If they take to it and you can handle the schedule, summer swim can stand in for summer camp. My kids literally don't want to be at camp if they can be at our pool. If you can work remotely, there's often a way to work from the deck. Some teams assign volunteers or have elaborate systems of points and financial penalties, but PP is absolutely right that it takes an outsized number of volunteers to run a meet, let alone summer swim im general, with all of its extra experiences. My best advice is to find a job that works for you (team breakfast? Ribbons?) and make it your thing. That way you can opt out of the other jobs that don't appeal or don't fit into your family's life. And some teams have to have losing records if other teams are going to win. Great coaching and genius lineups might be able to capture an extra win per season, but they can't make up for having graduated a big group of fast seniors, or having a gap in a given age group. Again as PP said, try asking the other parents on the team. They can likely tell you when the team was last winning - and what they need to win again. [/quote]
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