*Or TAC

They should pull in MAC, along with the other top three, for a truly competitive meet. Wouldn’t that be something?!

It’s a tiny sample but it does show the absolute strength at the top of the club. There were multiple swimmers that put down AAAA times at a meet the first week of November, that’s impressive no matter how big the club is overall. The other thing I noticed was that some of the NCAP B relays finished ahead of other clubs’ A relays, again demonstrating the strength at the top of the club. On one hand it’s great that a high level club is accessible to kids below that AAA/AAAA level, but as the saying goes the BB level kids really are just grist for the mill.

NCAP-Burke and NCAP-Tyson’s also were really strong. The NOVA 10 year old girls are so insanely fast (top of the whole US), and the LIAC 9 year old girls are tremendous. Honestly, I felt all the NCAP Virginia sites were super strong, but this is a tiny, tiny sample size out of a humongous organization. It’s kind of like watching the Olympics, and we would expect the U.S. to do much better than Great Britain or Australia just based on population…yet they aren’t super impressive when we take population into account.

Anonymous wrote:Those, plus I saw Prep over in Maryland showing up strong in events as well. That whole meet looked stacked. Both LIAC and NOVA have really strong programs. NCAP came out on top in overall points, but that gets traded back and forth every few years it seems.

Prep was strong too, depth wise they were right there with Marymount and West (Claude Moore is another deep site). They’ve also gotten a couple 13-14 pick ups from RMSC (maybe because of the KSAC closure?) who are exceptionally fast.

Anonymous wrote:No medals for fourth place

Those, plus I saw Prep over in Maryland showing up strong in events as well. That whole meet looked stacked. Both LIAC and NOVA have really strong programs. NCAP came out on top in overall points, but that gets traded back and forth every few years it seems.

Anonymous wrote:NCAP MU is loaded with talent in the 11-14 age group

Marymount and West run deep in that age group.

NCAP MU is loaded with talent in the 11-14 age group

NCAP is strong.

Anonymous wrote:Looked better at MAAGS

A sea of red for most NCappers at NOVA

If you’re referring to adding time, comparing age groupers to senior swimmers is apples and oranges when you’re talking about a meet the first week of November. Age groupers drop time early in the season much easier than senior swimmers do. The age groupers did kill it at MAAGS.

Looked better at MAAGS

A sea of red for most NCappers at NOVA

I don’t know. NCAP looked pretty strong at both meets this weekend….

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Anonymous wrote:This weekend's meet is no longer hosted by NOVA though. It’s now an NCAP/PVS meet and is at the Freedom Center in Manassas.

NOVA is hosting a senior meet this weekend. It was in Richmond last year though. For a hot second the meet was supposed to be in Carlisle, PA this year but then it got moved to Freedom Center.

The NOVA hosted meet is still in Richmond this year.

There is a different meet in Manassas, but they are two different meets.

Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. I meant that NOVA hosted the MAAGS meet last year in Richmond, and this year MAAGS is in Manassas because of the senior meet this weekend in Richmond.

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Anonymous wrote:This weekend's meet is no longer hosted by NOVA though. It’s now an NCAP/PVS meet and is at the Freedom Center in Manassas.

NOVA is hosting a senior meet this weekend. It was in Richmond last year though. For a hot second the meet was supposed to be in Carlisle, PA this year but then it got moved to Freedom Center.

The NOVA hosted meet is still in Richmond this year.

There is a different meet in Manassas, but they are two different meets.