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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’d think parents would be happy to have lanes less crowded by club swimmers not attending. But again, the chief complaint really isn’t really about practice attendance, it’s that poor Larla and Larlo aren’t able to swim A meets because there are faster swimmers on the team. Feel free to sign your swimmers up for winter swim![/quote]

But those parents would:

1. Have to pay more $$$$
2. Have to drive them to swim practice at 4:30 am during the week and early on Saturdays
3. Have to drive them to swim meets all around the DMV for short/long course (or travel to ISCA/NCSA)
4. Have to time their kids longer swims
5. Have to volunteer for the club team
6. Have to shell out $$$ for swim equipment, parka, t-shirts/sweatshirts

Club swimmers aren't inherently better kids.  They just put in the work year round.  That's why they swim the A meets.[/quote]

Nah- a few are naturally gifted (and have the right genetics) but most
work their tails off 50 weeks a year, and upwards of 20-25 hours/week. [b]If club swimmers were banned from summer swim (or required to attend practices which isn’t feasible when every summer team practice conflicts with club practices) then parents of summer only swimmers will have to step up and volunteer more. [/b]

I have a feeling that most summer teams couldn’t exist without the parents of their club swimmers.[/quote]

OR clubs and summer pools would have to adjust to make participation more feasible.  IME swim tends to be inherently inflexible because of the attitude that's-the-way-it's-always-been.  And no one is talking about "banning" anyone except you.

I mean it's fine if your high level competitve swimmer wants to swim some summer rec meets to get more ribbons, you do you.  But this is much less common in other sports so I can see why some parents are befuddled by it.  Our summer pool does not have a lot of wealthy families so a lot of the year-round swimmers do RMSC and YMCA so it's a different situation.  [/quote]

Ribbons? 😂 You think they swim summer league for ribbons?

The timing of practices, both club and summer, are based on availability and clearing out before member/public hours. That results in overlapping practice schedules. Just ask the diving off the blocks tryout parent from RSFC that is fiesty about swim teams using public pools.[/quote]

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