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Long time NVSL family. ASR is what many of the league swimmers love most; IAS less so (especially as they age). Honestly, the league should just dump IAS. Everyone is exhausted at that stage of summer and most just want to leave the DMV and it's oppressive heat and humidity and head on fanily vacations (and not have to look at a NVSL pool for a couple of weeks).

The league should find a long term solution for ASR.

They know which faciities physically can (for example Mt. Vernon Park) and cannot (for exampel Dowden Terrace) host such a meet. I suspect they're a few dozen who can and put rotate through the list every year. Your pool will have to host once every 2-3 decades...no big deal.[/quote]

I mean I get what you are saying- but ASR is almost exclusively the domain of the most competitive teams.  IAS means great swimmers from all divisions can get in.  In order to get to swim at ASR, the swimmer not only has to work super hard themselves, but also have 3 teammates in their age group capable of all star swims.[/quote]

IAS is just a stratification of the good swimmers.  If they did it by cut times it would be a more competitive meet.  The best swimmers generally do not swim in it for other meets.  Large teams with lots of talent generally cannot get in many swimmers since they can only enter two per event.  So IAS actually allows in slower swimmers.

Just run a search of the fastest 15-18 girls from last year in an event for the season and compare it to the fastest from IAS last year.  Generally IAS is slower and the fastest swimmers did not participate.  But it is nice that they give more swimmers a chance that generally would not make it.  And once you are 13&over there are lots of scratches because vacations are chosen or other things, particularly from kids that have swam the meet a lot.[/quote]

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