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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a bummer, but I really don't blame anyone for not wanting to do this.  ASR is one of my kids' favorite part of the swim season.

I think they probably need to charge fees per relay though, and give that money to the hosts.  Then have 2-3 teams work together to get enough volunteers and the host team gets the biggest chunk of money but the other teams get a small cut for helping out.

The smaller teams just don't have the adults to run this kind of thing- and honestly why would they want to?  [/quote]

The teams that send the most swimmers to these events generally lack facilities or they have zero need for the money that could be generated.  This year there are no entry fees (that will be next) so all revenue is concessions which is still a LOT of work for a lot of volunteers.

The teams that could benefit from the money (at least next year) generally don't send a lot of swimmers or any swimmers in some case.  That would be a hard sell to any Board.  Pool dues are getting more expensive (pool management fees and chemicals are expensive) - membership is not going to like closing the pool down.  For ASR, I think it is an easier sell.  Less closure time, middle of the week, etc.  But IAS is a holy mess and on a weekend.

I know more and more pools are catching grief just for swim meets on Saturday mornings.  I imagine that when pool memberships were smaller and swim teams madeup a good proportion of membership these events were easier to sell.  [/quote]

I agree about the facilities issue- that's partly why I think they need to have teams work together.  I think Chesterbrook could host (using Chesterbrook ES and the church that's adjacent) but otherwise it might need to be a lower division team that could use the parents of an upper division team.  Crosspointe would also be pretty ideal (just looking at division 1 & 2).  [/quote]

Besides money (which our pool doesn’t need), why would our higher division team want to close our pool for multiple days [b]for sending 1-2 kids to all stars[/b]? It’s still a lot work for the home pool, even if the parents of another pool “worked” the event. It would cause wear and tear on our facility. [/quote]

That is poor logic, because if you are a high division team you are sending more than 1-2 kids to IAS. 
the logic is that teams that send the majority of the kids/teams should put in the work and give up their pool for 2 days to host. 
higher division teams also tend to have much higher % or members who are on swim team. [/quote]
I think this poster meant high division as in the number of their division is higher, not that they are division 1 or 2. [/quote]

Yes, but even div 4-5, heck even down to D10,  pools send more than 1-2 kids. but yes, no pools send as many as D 1 and 2. yet they somehow "could never host because the pool isn't perfect" [/quote]

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