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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jrs 2 is cut down to 90 minutes. Advanced Jr is only 2.25 hour in the week. Those are not enough practice for advanced swimmers that usual get 7. [/quote]

Please keep in mind that pre-Covid, most groups had more practices available than required/recommended to allow for schedule flexibility. That is a perk we had with RMSC that many clubs do not offer. I have had swimmers who started in minis and now are in advanced groups. Neither of my children regularly went to a 4th advanced junior practice, and therefore generally practiced less than 5h per week. I think the reductions we are seeing now are all based on a standard % of the required/recommended practice time not what we all remember of pre-Covid available practice time.

It is disappointing to have limited practice time now, but it's the hand we are currently dealt. Based on what I've seen across groups I know kids in, I believe RMSC got a lot of priority in pool time (vs. community use) with the current limits.[/quote]

[b]That is exactly what isn't fair.  You have some kids who attend all and cannot seem to move up and kids like yours who barely attend taking up space.  They should cut those kids who don't attend the majority of the sessions.  You shouldn't be holding a spot if you only swim 1-2 days out of 4 a week.[/b]

RMSC dominates the county pools so others aren't allowed to use it.  They don't pay for the pool time or life guards.  They should allow other teams to also use the pools.[/quote]

That's just not how it works. Advanced juniors are expected to swim 3d/wk, if they want to come to an extra practice, great. This is not "barely attending". If they want to play basketball and piano, great. If they want to do math tutoring another day, great. Then, when the kid makes it to NTG in high school and they are ready to commit all their activity time to swimming, there is still somewhere to progress and a better chance they haven't burned out or suffered overuse injuries.  Happy, healthy swimmers should be the goal.

Also, if they expected everyone to attend every practice offered for minis, juniors, advanced juniors, the groups would actually be smaller and less kids would get the opportunity to participate. The numbers are based on some portion of kids being out of any practice. Other clubs just offer the set schedule of your 2-3 days per week, and you can figure out your other activities around that from season to season. I have always enjoyed the flexibility because anyone involved in soccer, basketball, lacrosse, etc., knows those schedules come out last minute every season.[/quote]

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