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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only the VA sites at NCap do well anymore- a few strong men at Prep and that’s it for the MD side of things [/quote]

Are you serious?  [/quote]

So many sites that it is hard to generalize. AU + Holton is a strong site. North is good but just a small scale club. Prep is really struggling. [b]Definitely on the downward trend now.[/b] They haven’t had any homeschoolers move to the area for them in quite a while. [/quote]

How are you backing this claim up?[/quote]

Look at prep 2012 to 2020, and then look at the results since. As weak as they been under Bruce. [/quote]

You mean the period when Katie Ledecky, a multi-generational talent and arguably one of the greatest female swimmers of all time was contributing to stats for the Prep site? You mean nobody since 2020 has seemed to quite match up to that? Yes ... that is surprising. Or did you mean that during the peak pandemic/pools closed time-frame from 2020-2021 no local kids were crushing it in the water they could not train in?

[b]I don't really have a dog in the fight, but love to follow the sport, including here locally, and for sure two Prep kids who graduated in 2022 swam at Olympic Trials last year and one made the team.[/b]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you seem to be the same person that wanders every NCAP message thread with an axe to grind about Prep. Not sure your story, maybe things just did not work out for your kid at some point, or you used to work there years ago, etc. but the families we know with kids who swim for NCAP Prep all seem very happy with it and are not comparing their kid on a daily basis to a 10-time Olympic Gold Medalist. [/quote]

*2023 grads
What those of us in the swim community know is what the rest of the Prep Gold 1 group looked like at this time. That's what you see coming up in several threads. [/quote]
And those of us in the swim community also know what the group looks like currently. But we also know you will continue to grind the axe. [/quote]

Oh, okay, I get it now ... you sound like someone who used to be part of the Prep Gold group over the last few years and decided to leave maybe ... I'm sure you had your own personal reasons if that's the case. That's big-time swimming up there, and surprise, surprise, the parents and the kids are super intense about it as are the coaches. I don't mean at NCAP even, I mean on any team around here if you get to the top training group.

To the last commenters point though, your experience does not seem to reflect the current status of that group in any way. It's clearly full of swimmers and thriving all around. Not taking away from or delegitimizing your own personal experience, but it sounds like your swimmer is not even in the group any more or is off at college. Your complaints don't resonate for many of us because they are dated a bit and just do not reflect the here and now.[/quote]

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