Anonymous wrote:We are in a top division, NVSL, largish team (160ish), and I can tell you the club versus non-club numbers for most A-meets per age division on our team:

8U Girls and Boys - this year, no club swimmers; last year, 5 of the 6 8U A-meet girls swam at NCAP or St James

9-10 Girls - 5 of the 7 A-meet swimmers are at NCAP

9-10 Boys - only 2 club swimmers (one at St James, one at NCAP); 5-6 who don’t swim club; highly ranked relays

11-12 Girls - 5 club swimmers (4 at NCAP, 1 at St James); 2 non-club swimmers

11-12 Boys - 3 club swimmers (all NCAP); 4 who don’t swim club

13-14 Girls - 5 club swimmers; 1 non-club swimmer

13-14 Boys - 2 club swimmers; the rest non-club

15-18 Boys - all are current or former club swimmers, but many stopped club years ago; all swim high school

15-18 Boys - only 2 current club swimmers; the rest are former club swimmers; all swim high school

Anonymous wrote:We are in a top 5 division and have approaching 200 swimmers. We never swim empty lanes. We also don’t refer to a meet swimmers or b meet swimmers. We have about 40 kids who are always in the a meet. Another 40 or so who float in and out from week to week. Then about 100 who are never in an a meet. But who the 40 floaters are changes a lot from year to year.

Anonymous wrote:D2 with over 200 swimmers. Even there for 8&u there are empty lanes. Really depends on the year. After 8&u really need to swim year round to get a shot at some age groups. But in D2 there are teams with really weak age groups. You can look it up on nvsl. If you want to go to A meets then swim at a pool where your kids age group is weak. That seems like a lot of work for summer swim

Anonymous wrote:Division 12
Looking back at last weekend I counted 32 empty lanes for individual events base on the posted results.