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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the logic of Divisionals and All Stars being different from the rest.

Divisionals and All Stars should be the opportunity for kids who love summer swim to shine.  Instead they seem to be opportunities for club swimmers who invest very little in summer swim to show off.  [/quote]

“Invest very little time in summer swim”? What is the basis for your statement? Our team club swimmers are highly involved in summer swim, leaving high, high level meet prelims sessions at championship LC meets to race back for a summer league meet, only to then race back for LC finals. Our club swimmers even ensure to travel back after out-of-state meets to be there for the A Meet. None of this is because they need individual summer league accolades. They come back to help the team. I don’t recall a pep rally or team outing where all our club swimmers did not attend, barring illness.[/quote]
Come on. I know of no swimmers doing high, high level meet prelims, then a summer league meet, and then going back for finals that night at the high level meet. There are plenty of high level club swimmers that participate in and enjoy summer swim but none do the craziness that you just described. [/quote]

Well, they do on our team and on the team we competed against on 7/15. And our swimmers who have been competing out of town have absolutely come back sooner than they probably would have to compete at our A Meet.[/quote]
7/15 was a Monday, please name me the high level meet that had prelims on that day and the summer league team that had an important meet that day. I’ll wait because there were none. You don’t need to just make sh!t up to prove the point that elite swimmers enjoy summer swim. No elite swimmer is doing prelims at a high level club meet, then dashing across town to swim in a summer league meet, and then dashing back to the elite club meet to do finals. It’s just not happening. [/quote]

PVS Champs, 7/13 — clearly the poster just had a typo. Ask teams in D1 and D2 if their swimmers did this. Because we saw it at our D1 meet with two 15-18 swimmers, one from each team. Better yet, check the roster for who swam PVS Champs and NVSL that day. Moreover, why do you care? The point is club kids DO care about their summer teams and, especially in D1, they even find ways to make club and summer league meets.[/quote]

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