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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We swim in the Maryland LSC and we don’t typically volunteer at meets hosted by other clubs. For example we recently attended the NBAC Fastival and they never asked other any teams to volunteer for roles like timers or marshals. [/quote]

This is more the normal.  Marlins host a LOT of meets which I assumed was how they make more revenue for the owners.  I am not sure what the fees happen to be for the swimmers but assumed they might be lower than other teams due to the volunteer requirements. [/quote]
This is actually not the normal in PVS. We have never gone to a PVS meet that another club has hosted and not been expected to volunteer. I will say though we have attended meets hosted by a Maryland Swimming club and have not been asked to volunteer. At many PVS meets we are the largest group there and we are expected to provide more timers than any other club, including the host club. It’s just how things work in PVS. And honestly if you didn’t have clubs like the Marlins and Makos hosting less competitive December meets the kids that aren’t super fast wouldn’t have a winter champs meet to compete at, so maybe stop complaining about it. Volunteering is part of club swim, it is what it is. [/quote]

OP here … I am not in PVS and I think the issue is we simply have different volunteer practices in our LSC as we rarely, if ever, volunteer at a swim meet someone else is hosting unless it’s a champ meet in St Mary’s. So asking for volunteers from other teams is unusual.

And for the record, I have a sectionals level swimmer who is well under the NCAP qualifying times. They would rather attend that meet but our club isn’t invited. So… we are stuck going to the Winter Classic with the “slow kids” instead! 
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OP if you live close to a PVS club leave maryland swimming.  Champs meet at UMD over St.Marys is worth it and better competitors [/quote]

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