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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a D1 pool in NVSL. Almost all our Saturday swimmers swim year round.  Our team does not win based upon what happens in the summer, it's all about the year-round training.  At our pool, it is strongly encouraged to sign up for a program for the rest of the year.  Only 6-9 swimmers per age group get to swim on Saturdays and you don't have much hope unless you swim year-round.

This is well-known, though, so most swimmers go in expecting to only swim in B mets.  It can be challenging if your kid only makes 1 Saturday meet because then they realize how much more exciting it is to be an A meet swimmer.  Sometimes that motivates them to work harder and sometimes that makes them want to quit because it is hard to go back to B meets.  [/quote]

Just curious, and I promise this is not a snarky comment, are you at one of the three pools that is always in D1 or are you at one of the the other pools that rotates in to D1 based on time in water and results the prior year? (Our pool was in D1 a few years ago but we dropped down - due to results - after the one year in D1). The three that are usually in D1 (Chesterbrook, Tuckahoe, and I always forget the third) are clearly different and more competitive than "neighborhood pools (and that's not a bad thing). [/quote]

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