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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who has the spreadsheet on the churn rate at NCAP sites/groups? Prep Gold 1 has to be in the 5Y lead. Brucelickers will definitely try to spin it as natural selection/kids who just couldn’t cut it at the hands of the master. That’s a terrible take.[/quote]

Wow. This sounds so incredibly personal for you. It just leads to the overwhelming feeling that you yourself had a swimmer at Prep who left on very bad terms. Not saying who was at fault, but based on how you worded this, you seem to have so much venom that you can't let go of.

Not sure how it ended up for you, but no one is forcing anyone to stay anywhere they don't want to be. Kids move, switch teams, find better fits for themselves, etc. in every sport imaginable. Some disgruntled athletes (and often parents, who are we kidding here) just sit with their coach and work it through, explain their concerns honestly, and come to an approach that can work for them and they stay with the air cleared.

Previous posters in this thread who seem to have first-hand knowledge of Prep as it stands now all seem to report the Gold group environment as being very much the opposite of what your experience was I'm guessing 2-3 years back. Granted, it was still a bit Covid restricted then, one of the best swimmers was the coach's daughter (which probably rankled some feathers for reasons we can all imagine having been around youth sports here in the DC area, unfortunately) and so on, which may have contributed to how you felt about your experience.

I'll just say I'm sure you're leading with the heart, and we all see red when it comes to our kids, but it's hard to believe based on the way you troll through these message boards after all of this time that you were the picture of calm, cool, and collected in dealing with or working out bumps in the road as they arose for your kid in the sport of swimming. Sounds like your kid was probably super-talented and you had tremendous expectations and input into how they should be trained. I hope it worked out for them in the end, and honestly hope you can find peace moving forward. [/quote]

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