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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, even if that is accurate, the person is saying find a new sport to someone making their first final over the age of 14.  They also didn’t specify boys/girls.  Should this sport only be for high level swimmers or is it allowed that swimmers who are late bloomers find some joy in their achievements?  Maybe just don’t be so elitist[/quote]
[b]You’re throwing around elitist as though it’s an insult, but this is a champs meet not the November Open so there is a level of “elitism” built in 🙄[/b] I don’t agree that people need to find a new sport, swimming is a sport for life which is part of what makes it awesome, but there is something off about a senior champs meet with the low standards this one has.[/quote]

But the person PP is referring to didn’t say “if you haven’t made a final by the time you’re 14, maybe it’s time to stop swimming at championship meets”. They said to “find a new sport”. As in give up the sport you love and have been training for for years because you’re not going to the Olympics. If you read that comment and didn’t throw up in your mouth a little, you are the reason why all the joy has been sucked out of sports in the DMV. [/quote]
+ 1 I have a Futures kid and a kid that has never come close to an A time, nor a champs cut or final. Never in a million years would it occur to me to tell kid #2 they should just stop swimming. It’s okay to swim competitively for the sake of it, even if you’re not fast. All that to say, I do wonder if PVS Open Champs is trying to be too many different kinds of meets at once (although the session lengths weren’t at all unreasonable). Overall, the meet was efficient and well run. [/quote]

I have several kids and they run the gamut on swim.  So I am in your camp and believe that all of my kids need opportunities and use swim for different reasons.

For the most part, this was a great meet.  The hosts did a great job and better than most meets that I have attended.  They tried to apportion the volunteer roles by the teams.  Being held from entering because your team did not put up its volunteers is a way of life.  Most of the families complaining on here, do not volunteer.  They want to sit in the stands, video their swimmer (with commentary! wth) and complain.   If you cared about your swimmer you would work the meet.

I do like the idea of volunteers getting an all access band.  That is brilliant and they should be allowed in first and not wait in line for the rest of the meet.  This should be seriously considered.

The officials running all of finals was AMAZING.  THANK YOU.  I don't think parents realize what a treat that is at a finals meet.  I have been at meets where they started the finals (i.e. boys pool while waiting on timers for girls pool) and held parents outside until it happened.  If it matters to you, then you should be part of the solution.

The only critcism to the meet dealt with bonus events.  Either do not allow them or have a minimum entry time for them - particularly on the 100s and 200s.  But I lean towards just not having bonus events like 14&Unders.  You get in what you get in on.  I was fine with generous cuts for the 50s, those events move so fast it was not bad at all.  But the longer events should be tougher to get  in on,  even my swimmer commented that there were some really slow times on 100 fly for the girls that were swimming.  I assume that was all bonus event entries, I did not look at the cut time.

The finals were fine.  They were short and moved fast.  I think that prelims should be tightened up a little.  Oh, and something needed to be done with the warm down pool during prelims.  It was an absolute zoo.  It looked very dangerous and I am shocked that none of the swimmers got hurt.  Kids just hanging out chatting, long wait times,  swimmers sprinting when it is a warm down pool, no room, etc.   Perhaps have a no standing lane?  Have some lanes just for boys and some for girls?  Have a lane for those coming for warm ups later in the meet and the other lanes for warm down. That was causing some issues or coaches monitoring them.  It was fine for finals though.
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