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My swimmer would like to do both but I think that IAS is a long day in the sun and then to add travel, etc, will compromise performance.  Does anyone have experience with this? Good arguments either way?[/quote]

What’s your plan? Have your swimmer fly home Friday night (what if they final?), not swim Saturday at NCSAs, fly back to Indy Saturday night, swim Sunday and fly back home Monday?

It would be a huge nope from me! All that time and money going back and forth for a Rec level meet? Forget a few hours in the sun! What about all that time sitting around airports and squished into a germy plane?

Some of these posters responding are crazy…

* you can’t compare NVSL scm times to lcm/scy times
* Olympians didn’t skip a summer champs meet for all stars (conger swam MCSL which in the past had all stars the weekend prior to the start of NCSAs).
* There are sometimes fast swimmers at the all star meet bc swimmers skip a summer club champs meet for various reasons (leaving for college soon after)
* for the poster saying these swimmers can get lcm times earlier in the summer clearly have little understanding about the training cycle for swimming. Best times are going to happen when they are rested and tapered at the end of July.
* does your swimmer only swim 100s and the 200im? We are in MC so not sure what events are done in NVSL. Hopefully your daughter is not a distance swimmer.

Another option depending on your club team would be to go to sectionals that is after all stars. There are still some fast swimmers there and she could easily do both. Plus she’d get in an extra week of training. But I would check with your daughters coach about her options.[/quote]

Totally agree with this post. My elite swimmer (swimming D1 and will be swimming at Trials) can attest that going from SCY to LCM is hard (not to mention summer swim of SCM). Getting a cut time earlier in the LC season isn't reasonable for most swimmers. If my swimmer were faced with a conflict, they would have had to discuss with the coach and the answer may have depended on which summer. Senior year summer before college -- pick the fun All Star meet. Sophomore/ junior year when being recruited they would have chosen Summer Juniors or NCSA.

But the idea that a swimmer, regardless of age, could do both in one weekend/ 4 day meet period is ridiculous just based on travel alone.

Colleges do NOT look at SCM times from summer swim (just like they don't care about IMX!). But if your swimmer does not want to swim in college, then have fun and do All Stars.[/quote]

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