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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6 weeks? Memorial day through all stars is 9 weeks, some weekends both days.[/quote]

Practice starts after Mem Day, but meets are still 2 weeks off.  It's 8 Saturdays, including time trials, which should zip along quickly, divisionals and All-Stars.    There are 2 possible weekends where it's both days:  relays and all-stars.  If your kids are having a good time, you can't suck it up for a total of 20 hours max?  [/quote]

Weallll - it's not quite the same in all of the leagues. In NVSL, we have the Saturdays like you describe through All-Stars. But then there are the Monday evening B meets (our team did 3 this season), Wednesday evening Relay Carnivals (our team has 3 this year), plus the IM Invitational which is also on a Monday evening. So we've had a meet schedule of this since July 4th: Saturday/Monday/Wednesday/Thursday(due to a rescheduled relay carnival)/Saturday/Monday/Wednesday/Saturday/Monday. If you're at a small pool, then many of the parents end up having to volunteer at EVERY event. At our B meet last night, the kids and parents were feeling the burn out. This is where you really need a Team Rep and a Coach and fellow team members/parents who can keep people going! Add on top of that the "drama" of competitive swimming for the kids of ALL ages - in the A meets one week, bumped the next.... Don't get me wrong, I love summer swim and truly think the benefits more than outweigh the downsides. But I can see how some/many parents look at it and think, "Are you kidding me? Is this really what I want for my summer? What in the hell did I get myself into?"[/quote]

That is insane. Sounds like you live in a neighborhood in which the swim team leaders don't know how to just say no. Sounds like they say yes to every hair-brained idea. We only have 2 meets a week -- all ages, abilities and strokes -- and one relay carnival and one all-star meet the entire season. We skip the relay carnival because it is well, just...dumb. Heck if I'm going to be out there baking in the hot sun all the time. Not healthy.[/quote]

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