Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’d love to get out of D1, I can tell you that much. A couple of the teams are toxic to a degree that is hard to believe until you see it.
Agreed. Let the 3 who have parity with each other form D1 and just rotate who swims each other twice. Let the rest of us go down.
I’d be happy with that solution! DR and Highlands are both great teams with strong communities and terrific swimmers but it does get tiring. Tuckahoe already tried to recruit one of our top swimmers 🙄.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Crosspointe doesn't want to go to div 1 either. That'd be horrible
LOL they definitely do. They wanted to go this year with OKM. They'll get it next year![]()
Anonymous wrote:Crosspointe doesn't want to go to div 1 either. That'd be horrible
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’d love to get out of D1, I can tell you that much. A couple of the teams are toxic to a degree that is hard to believe until you see it.
Agreed. Let the 3 who have parity with each other form D1 and just rotate who swims each other twice. Let the rest of us go down.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We joined our NVSL team when it was D14 and now it’s D1. I don’t notice much of a difference except that I hear one benefit in being at a more competitive division pool is being able to go to all star relays for example - the higher division team, the more teams have many good swimmers to
likely qualify etc.
It always seemed fairly competitive to make A meets at our pool even in the lower divisions - I guess because we were rising.
We have had the same (particularly good) leadership on the team the whole time, and I can imagine leadership makes a difference.
This is our neighborhood pool so we would be at it at any division - the most important thing to me is all of the kids friends from school being there.
Serious Q…has it been demoralizing being crushed in all the meets so far this summer? Or everyone is having fun and no one cares?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are in division 16 and I wouldn't have it any other way. We don't have any drama. Almost all the kids get to swim in A meets, whether in their age group or swimming up. It's low-pressure and a lot of fun. I hope we never move up.
You wouldn’t feel this way if you had a really good swimmer. But I get this mentality.
What’s too bad is families can’t self-select with these pools based on skill level and interest like rec sports vs travel. Some kids just want the experience and some kids really want to compete.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are in division 16 and I wouldn't have it any other way. We don't have any drama. Almost all the kids get to swim in A meets, whether in their age group or swimming up. It's low-pressure and a lot of fun. I hope we never move up.
You wouldn’t feel this way if you had a really good swimmer. But I get this mentality.
What’s too bad is families can’t self-select with these pools based on skill level and interest like rec sports vs travel. Some kids just want the experience and some kids really want to compete.
True, I don't have "a really good swimmer," though I do have year-round swimmers. But we have several All Star swimmers on our team and their parents have been happy enough to stay at the pool for years. Just based on that, I'm not sure it's a universal truth that parents of really good swimmers prefer the faster divisions.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are in division 16 and I wouldn't have it any other way. We don't have any drama. Almost all the kids get to swim in A meets, whether in their age group or swimming up. It's low-pressure and a lot of fun. I hope we never move up.
You wouldn’t feel this way if you had a really good swimmer. But I get this mentality.
What’s too bad is families can’t self-select with these pools based on skill level and interest like rec sports vs travel. Some kids just want the experience and some kids really want to compete.
Anonymous wrote:We are in division 16 and I wouldn't have it any other way. We don't have any drama. Almost all the kids get to swim in A meets, whether in their age group or swimming up. It's low-pressure and a lot of fun. I hope we never move up.
Anonymous wrote:We joined our NVSL team when it was D14 and now it’s D1. I don’t notice much of a difference except that I hear one benefit in being at a more competitive division pool is being able to go to all star relays for example - the higher division team, the more teams have many good swimmers to
likely qualify etc.
It always seemed fairly competitive to make A meets at our pool even in the lower divisions - I guess because we were rising.
We have had the same (particularly good) leadership on the team the whole time, and I can imagine leadership makes a difference.
This is our neighborhood pool so we would be at it at any division - the most important thing to me is all of the kids friends from school being there.
Anonymous wrote:Larger pools tend to be in higher divisions because there is a larger pool of talent and more competition. It is still fun outside of D1 where it’s extreme. In lower divisions there can still be good swimmers but overall there is more room for summer swimmers since meets are the same size. It’s difficult at big pools to switch pools easily as they often have waiting lists.