Reply to Sport Fair Winter Classic

Forum Index » Swimming and Diving

Reply to "Sport Fair Winter Classic "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are hearing rumors some big clubs aren’t attending this year and were also just told we could bring more swimmers than originally planned. Which clubs are definitely attending? Who dropped out?[/quote]

There are not many big clubs at this meet.  The big clubs (RMSC, NCAP, Machine, etc) all attend NCI and Turkey Claus.[/quote]

NCI pulls in a lot of teams from out of state and many qualifying cuts are faster than senior champs.  It certainly takes a faster time to final.  It’s a really fast meet. [/quote]

NCI is just an incredibly fast meet.  Thankfully Turkey Claus, sport Fair winter classic, etc exist for the not incredibly fast. [/quote]
To be clear, there are plenty of swimmers at the Winter Classic that are fast enough to swim at the NCI.  Their teams just don't participate so they cannot, even though they have the cuts.  NCI is unquestionably a much faster meet, but it's inaccurate to say that the Winter Classic is for swimmers that are "not incredibly fast".  [/quote]

100%! Just looking at one event (50 back) in 9-10 girls, York, Makos, and OCCS all have 9-10 girls who are as fast as girls on NCAP and RMSC. York has the two fastest 9-10 girls in all of PVS by miles. (We swim at NCAP, but huge props to York. If we lived closer, I might change to York. They look like they are a true team.)[/quote]

By the way YORK has literally always has good 10&Unders so where are their girls ranked in 13-14 and 15&Over categories right now?

If they aren’t high then sorry they aren’t a good team (unless you only want success at 10)[/quote]

A lot of them move to NCAP.  [/quote]

This is true, many of them do. Many wish they could stay with York, but pool limitations means that a talented kid is forced to swim mornings at age 13. The higher performance groups are at 4:30 or 5:00 am. It's unfortunate. Many parents and swimmers want to avoid mornings at such a young age, so switch to NCAP Marymount, where they can continue afternoons/evenings through age 14 at least. [/quote]

This is a big problem for York. The top kids are forced into early mornings too soon because of pool space. A lot of talented kids leave, bc their parents (many of whom were high level swimmers too) know that early mornings for that many years is a likely path to burnout.

The whole thing is ironic bc a lot of families choose York bc the focus is on fun and the practice requirements are typically not intense for age groupers (3-4 workouts a week max, even for the most talented 12 and unders). But then their kids turn 13 and they are forced to become more intense by way of getting up super early for practice.

I wish they could fix this issue; many more kids would stay past age 12.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics