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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are wrapping up our summer swim first experience.  It was very confusing I’m wondering if there’s some info I can glean from this group:

Why are the away meets so far away?  We are in the central Md division and most of our away meets are an hour away?  Why don’t they group local pools together?

Does everyone’s practices lack stroke technique instruction ? I ended up signing my kid up for extra swim instruction after he dq’d in a couple meets.

The family time commitment vs actual kid participation time seems pretty extreme.  With three kids it’s a tough juggle.

Can’t we automate some of these volunteer heavy duties like timers?

We lost most of our meets.  Is this due to coaching or wrong division placement?  Or just a younger team?

Any thoughts?  We may just not be swim family material.  Thanks in advance for helpful wisdom.[/quote]

I can only speak for NVSL, but the league is spread over a large area and in trying to keep divisions competitive they just look at how teams match up and not distances.

Swimming is labor intensive and takes a lot of volunteers. Not a whole lot around this. Some people love volunteering and the comradery, some hate it. If you hate it then summer swim may not be for you.

Timing- hard to automate- touchpads are vey expensive and not worth the investment for a league that last 6-7 weeks. They can also fail and even at USA swim meets there are 2 timers per lane as backups.

Losing by a lot- likely poor division placement. Coaching matters in summer swim, but not a ton. No matter how good a coach is they can only accomplish so much in 8 weeks. Biggest predictor of team success it the number of kids on the team who swim club year round/come in needing little coaching. [/quote]

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