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We had multiple families try to join our team based on their club times and get upset that they would have to get on the pool's waitlist.  They thought there was a cut the line policy for fast kids.[/quote]

Not sure if this is true or trolling, [b]but many teams looking to move up divisions will move families with top club swimmers up the waitlist. This is reality (so don’t complain about line cutting), but shouldn’t be demanded by a family. It’s a conversation to be had discretely with the coach and reps. [/b][/quote]

This cannot be true.  What the absolute hell?  That shows lack of sportsmanship and not in the spirit of summer league.  Also if coaches have to pad their roster with ringers, that shows poor coaching and not working with the talent you have.[/quote]

It absolutely is true. Rules prohibit recruiting, but line cutting isn’t recruiting. [/quote]

That is disgusting.[/quote]

Not to the families that belong to winning pools. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. [/quote]

People say this happens but the teams likely doing it deny it completely. But ten year waitlists would not get new young swimmers on the team.

If true, would definitely fall into crappy behavior for a summer league that is supposed to be fun. [/quote]

Other than OKM (no waitlist, largely pulls from Lake Braddock school area), Hunt Valley (no waitlist, largely pulls from West Springfield school area), plus Fair Oaks and Crosspointe (both of which sort of have restrictions because of HOA/boundary restrictions), which teams in NVSL D1-D3 *don’t* have a waitlist? Because, to me, when teams DON’T have a waitlist but are only building teams within their current population (little kids who may become good swimmers notwithstanding), that’s much more impressive AND shows how much better their coaches are at developing young swimmers. This said, we swim in a top NVSL division, and very few of the teams actually have noticeable transfers from one team to another year to year, so other than a handful of exceptions we’ve noticed in the past few years, I don’t think this line-cutting-for-fast-kids is happening.[/quote]

OKM recruits NCAP kids to their pool.  Other pools do it too.  They aren't all "home grown"[/quote]

You do realize NCAP-Burke is one traffic light away from OKM, right? There’s no recruiting. NCAP-Burke is the closest club for year-round swimmers. Still, OKM has swimmers at STJ, Foxes, Sea Devils, Makos, and NCAP-Burke. Each of these clubs is within 5-10 min from Lake Braddock, White Oak, and Cherry Run.

Daventry and Fox Hunt (NVSL), as well as Burke Centre Penguins (CSL) also have a lot of NCAP-Burke swimmers. It’s about proximity.[/quote]

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