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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kids aren't good, you can take a vacation.  If your kids are good, expect people to give you the side eye if you skip meets. [/quote]
 :roll: That’s ridiculous. If anything there will be parents glad their kid then has a chance at A meets. We had club kids skip meets for PVS LC meets and no one looked sideways at those kids. [/quote]

PVS LC meets were always on a different day than summer swim meets last year. They did that intentionally so they wouldn’t screw up summer swim. [/quote]
The last Saturday meet conflicted with PVS LC champs. The 2 PVS LC Opens were on Sundays only, but there were other PVS LC meets that happened on Saturdays and Sundays.[/quote]

Are you thinking of All-Stars? I know that conflicted with the LC championship [/quote]
12U LC champs were July 14-17, the last summer team meet was July 16.[/quote]

But it was local and Saturday events didn’t start until 3pm, intentionally well after NVSL meets would end. Events the other days started in the morning. Our club had a few swimmers going to the PV meet,  but all first went to the NVSL meet in the morning [/quote]
That’s great for your summer team, I guess? We had club kids miss meets for club swimming events. It was not a big deal at all. The summer swim obsession in this area is wild, it’s a [b]6-8 week no-cut rec sport for crying out loud.[/b] [/quote]

Maybe no cut, but at least half of the swimmers at our pool will never make an a meet. I guess it's like a no cut basketball, only half the kids don't ever dress for games and only get to play in scrimmages [/quote]
This is an apples and oranges comparison, at least in MCSL. An A meet is no different than a B meet in terms of participation, unlike the way a basketball scrimmage is different than a basketball game. The B meets are against another pool, so it’s still a competition not just a scrimmage. That’s what makes summer swim a good rec sport, everyone gets a chance to compete . I don’t understand the obsession with A meets v B meets, why would a kid that is not fast enough want to get thrown into an A meet where they will come in last place?[/quote]

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