We’re in the Maryland LSC and none of our teams have these basic issues at meets. The Girls 13U course was chaotic today and almost an hour behind schedule. So yes, UMD is a fast pool, but these issues come up every.single.year at the Marlins meets. No officials - from PVS or MD LSC - want to work these meets!

The Marlins might not be great with data, but they host a lot of meets and get them at fast pools (UMD and GMU) so that is more than most clubs are doing out there. You have to take the good and the bad.

We also need more meets in general.

Everything went fine this morning. Results came through quickly. Last night I don’t know what happened since the heats weren’t even loaded but they did need to move some heats of boys 13&over 4 IM because someone puked in the pool.

I’m just taking pictures of the scoreboard to track results. And writing them down with pencil and paper. Old school!

We will see what happens this morning. It might be only one pool that you get results for which will be a bummer.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I’m at the meet and saw my kid swim and timed him so I know his time. Not sure what the big deal is.

The obsessive spreadsheet parents need to get ahead of their data entry for their kid and all their rivals today or their whole weekend is just ruined.

There is truth in this statement. I have had multiple swimmers (big family) and of varying levels and interest. I have one kid swimming D1, another that will be done after high school, and two that might swim club in college. I was an athlete (not a swimmer) and were a number of siblings. The obsessive parents - those focused on time drops every time, comparing their swimmer to their friends, needling the coaches or constantly telling coaches what their kids should work on, the 13&O kid that it is still crying after every race they did not time drop, they are not long for this sport. When a kid is running to mom and dad in the stands instead of talking to their coach about what happened in the water first - they will wash out once mom and dad are not there to micromanage them. It is sad, because those parents are stealing the joy of the sport and ruining it.

I hope that some will change their ways, but they won't. Then they will wonder why their kid quit or failed, and all the red flags were there for years.

Anonymous wrote:Well I’m at the meet and saw my kid swim and timed him so I know his time. Not sure what the big deal is.

The obsessive spreadsheet parents need to get ahead of their data entry for their kid and all their rivals today or their whole weekend is just ruined.

Anonymous wrote:Marlin hosted meets have always been bad a reporting results in meet mobile. Both at UMD and Winter Classic.

100% true.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like a data issue. They only loaded some sessions. They will probably put it in tomorrow morning.

And it is a Marlins team issue historically. Last year they got some new data people and every meet that had two pools running they only got one set in. Before that they have no issue. They initially blamed GMU and their internet and then had the exact same issue at UMD.

GMU is a separate issue and all teams hosting there have had problems, including Makos.

Yes. True. But Marlins also is the only team to have this issue at UMD as well.

Marlin hosted meets have always been bad a reporting results in meet mobile. Both at UMD and Winter Classic.

Anonymous wrote:It looks like a data issue. They only loaded some sessions. They will probably put it in tomorrow morning.

And it is a Marlins team issue historically. Last year they got some new data people and every meet that had two pools running they only got one set in. Before that they have no issue. They initially blamed GMU and their internet and then had the exact same issue at UMD.

GMU is a separate issue and all teams hosting there have had problems, including Makos.

Anonymous wrote:Well I’m at the meet and saw my kid swim and timed him so I know his time. Not sure what the big deal is.

Tonight was distance and each kid only swam one event. Maybe you’ll “care” tomorrow. Just glad this meet isn’t prelims/finals… preparing now for the same issue to pop up again at GMU

It looks like a data issue. They only loaded some sessions. They will probably put it in tomorrow morning.

And it is a Marlins team issue historically. Last year they got some new data people and every meet that had two pools running they only got one set in. Before that they have no issue. They initially blamed GMU and their internet and then had the exact same issue at UMD.

Well I’m at the meet and saw my kid swim and timed him so I know his time. Not sure what the big deal is.

Is meet mobile not working at this meet? Here we go…. again! And before anyone starts in about the “two concurrent courses” issue, other PVS teams handle it without any issue at UMD!