Anonymous wrote:Bothers me. It’s too many kids at one meet.

Anonymous wrote:RMSC’s NTG meet was good. I hope it’s used as a model for younger groups. DD is in the NDG’s and has competed against her own group but times were not official and the events were a lot of relays.

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St. James has been rented out for several meets now. The Machine had a multi day meet and it was an insane number of kids. It did not appear to be safe. It was live streamed.

AAC vs NCAP - looked like a smaller meet.

And St. James had one with the Makos. They did it by groups. They use one timer on deck - masks until the blocks, and touchpads - but the touchpads were not accurate.

Since they record them they really ought to be careful. You can see people pulling down masks and not really wearing them.

Hm. I'm a little concerned about something happening at these larger invitational meets that causes the smaller intrasquad and dual meets to be cancelled. It looks like there's two different meets this weekend with 3+ teams? The one at the St. James says there a cap per session of 80 kids. 80 seems way high!

There are like six different teams invited to this meet. How is that okay?

https://www.pvswim.org/2021sanc/21-113-ma.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:RMSC’s NTG meet was good. I hope it’s used as a model for younger groups. DD is in the NDG’s and has competed against her own group but times were not official and the events were a lot of relays.

I didn't think relays were allowed? They seem far more dangerous than straight swimming.

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Anonymous wrote:They are using 50% of max capacity at St. James to determine numbers. You can see a breakdown in the supplemental meet info on PVS site.

The facility specs say that 50% pool occupancy is 167 and the spectator stands allow another 103 people. They are using the stands for swimmers when they are not in the water or otherwise on deck.

I'd like to see it with 80 kids plus coaches and volunteers, but reading through the breakdown, it seems like they will be able to keep distance.

Except the other half of the pool is generally for members to be allowed to swim. So not sure how that works. Also I didn't think you could have that many teams.

Anonymous wrote:They are using 50% of max capacity at St. James to determine numbers. You can see a breakdown in the supplemental meet info on PVS site.

The facility specs say that 50% pool occupancy is 167 and the spectator stands allow another 103 people. They are using the stands for swimmers when they are not in the water or otherwise on deck.

I'd like to see it with 80 kids plus coaches and volunteers, but reading through the breakdown, it seems like they will be able to keep distance.

Anonymous wrote:RMSC’s NTG meet was good. I hope it’s used as a model for younger groups. DD is in the NDG’s and has competed against her own group but times were not official and the events were a lot of relays.

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St. James has been rented out for several meets now. The Machine had a multi day meet and it was an insane number of kids. It did not appear to be safe. It was live streamed.

AAC vs NCAP - looked like a smaller meet.

And St. James had one with the Makos. They did it by groups. They use one timer on deck - masks until the blocks, and touchpads - but the touchpads were not accurate.

Since they record them they really ought to be careful. You can see people pulling down masks and not really wearing them.

Hm. I'm a little concerned about something happening at these larger invitational meets that causes the smaller intrasquad and dual meets to be cancelled. It looks like there's two different meets this weekend with 3+ teams? The one at the St. James says there a cap per session of 80 kids. 80 seems way high!

Anonymous wrote:From the 10/24 meet at St. James (I don’t see a Machine meet):

All attendees (athletes, coaches, volunteers, officials, etc.) must wear masks, with the exception of athletes when warming up, cooling down, and competing.

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Anonymous wrote:

St. James has been rented out for several meets now. The Machine had a multi day meet and it was an insane number of kids. It did not appear to be safe. It was live streamed.

AAC vs NCAP - looked like a smaller meet.

And St. James had one with the Makos. They did it by groups. They use one timer on deck - masks until the blocks, and touchpads - but the touchpads were not accurate.

Since they record them they really ought to be careful. You can see people pulling down masks and not really wearing them.

Hm. I'm a little concerned about something happening at these larger invitational meets that causes the smaller intrasquad and dual meets to be cancelled. It looks like there's two different meets this weekend with 3+ teams? The one at the St. James says there a cap per session of 80 kids. 80 seems way high!

Its an issue as even if you choose to keep your child home, if your teammates attend, they can bring covid in. I don't see how that's ok but that's why they are doing it in VA where the rules are more flexible.

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Anonymous wrote:

St. James has been rented out for several meets now. The Machine had a multi day meet and it was an insane number of kids. It did not appear to be safe. It was live streamed.

AAC vs NCAP - looked like a smaller meet.

And St. James had one with the Makos. They did it by groups. They use one timer on deck - masks until the blocks, and touchpads - but the touchpads were not accurate.

Since they record them they really ought to be careful. You can see people pulling down masks and not really wearing them.

Hm. I'm a little concerned about something happening at these larger invitational meets that causes the smaller intrasquad and dual meets to be cancelled. It looks like there's two different meets this weekend with 3+ teams? The one at the St. James says there a cap per session of 80 kids. 80 seems way high!