Anonymous
05/18/2026 14:06
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April.
So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized.
Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend.
The Maryland NCAP sites were at the NOVA meet in Richmond this weekend.
Burke is definitely the outlier with the number of meets available for the 12Us. It looks like most sites offer at least 4 meets before champs. The Maryland NoVA, and Loudoun sites probably have the most. NCAP West does some meets that others don’t because of where they are located, in addition to May Magic last weekend their 12Us have a meet in Stafford, an outdoor meet in Winchester, and then one of the LC Opens.
Burke is the original site and the head coach (Pete Morgan) is at Burke. I wonder if they kept Burke a franchise because of potential liability when they created NCAP from Curl-Burke (as a means of protecting NCAP the entity from any vicarious liability, maybe?), or if it involves coaching contracts and insurance.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 12:06
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April.
So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized.
Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend.
The Maryland NCAP sites were at the NOVA meet in Richmond this weekend.
Burke is definitely the outlier with the number of meets available for the 12Us. It looks like most sites offer at least 4 meets before champs. The Maryland NoVA, and Loudoun sites probably have the most. NCAP West does some meets that others don’t because of where they are located, in addition to May Magic last weekend their 12Us have a meet in Stafford, an outdoor meet in Winchester, and then one of the LC Opens.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 11:57
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April.
So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized.
Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend.
Some are franchised and some aren’t.
+1, Burke is its own franchise so if you have an issue with the small number of LC meets their 12 and unders are able to swim it that is something to take up with the head person at Burke.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 11:47
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April.
So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized.
Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend.
Some are franchised and some aren’t.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 11:23
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April.
So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized.
Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend.
The Maryland NCAP sites were at the NOVA meet in Richmond this weekend.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 11:22
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
I was wrong, NCAP-Nova 12Us were not at the NOVA of VA meet. They were at the Machine meet this past weekend, the May Magic Meet last weekend, and the Machine meet at the end of April.
So NCAP-Nova (Tysons/Marymount), NCAP-Loudoun (Claude Moore/Ashburn/Dulles South), and NCAP-Prep 12Us have already swim in three LC meets + will have 2 more LC meets before PV Champs, as compared with NCAP-Burke, which only swims 2 LC meets total before Champs. And NCAP-West will attend 2-3 LC meets before Champs. It’s curious that NCAP sites are not more standardized.
Prep and maybe AU were at the NOVA of VA meet this past weekend.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 10:03
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
It was the one put on by NOVA, Spring Splash. We are at a different NCAP site and this meet was not advertised to our swimmers, but I saw it on the SE Motion app. I forget what category it was under, maybe travel meets.
Anonymous
05/18/2026 09:20
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
What Richmond meet were 12Us at?
Anonymous
05/18/2026 00:05
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
Yes, NCAP Tysons and Marymount are now NCAP Nova. But Burke, Alexandria, Claude Moore, and any of the 5 Loudoun County sites are not Nova. They are just NCAP affiliates in Northern Virginia, not Nova.
And don’t confuse them with Nova of Virginia, and Nova of California (Irvine Novaquatics) because what’s another Nova?
It’s quite simple, makes perfect sense, and a master class in branding.
Anonymous
05/16/2026 17:57
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, at May Magic today, NCAP Tyson’s was on their second LC meet already.
I think most sites had already done a LC meet before this weekend. There have been the OCCS meets, the Machine meet, Fish Derby, and the PAC meets at Fairland.
Wow. Didn’t know that. This weekend was NCAP Burke swimmers’ first foray into a LC pool for the season, and we only have one more LC meet before champs this summer.
Really?
We only do three LC meets on average. The top swimmers generally do more. They will do Super Sectionals, NCSA Summer Champs, and/or Futures. But most swimmers will only do a few LC meets.
DP from NCAP Burke — yes, the 13 and over Silver 1 and Gold 1 swimmers can have more LC meets, but the 12U swimmers are only having two LC meets this season, and this past weekend was the first of the two. No LC practice until school is out. 12U Kids who make PV LC age group champs will go to them, and kids who make Zones can go (but most don’t because we just want a break after so much summer league swimming).
It’s nuts how different the sites are. NCAP Tyson’s (is it “Nova” now?) 12Us are at their fourth LC meet (this one is in Richmond!), with three weekends in a row.
Anonymous
05/12/2026 11:30
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Some teams have already been to three LC meets with their 12Us, which is overkill IMO. Don’t these kids have other activities? Dance recitals? Music performances? Theatre performances? Baseball or soccer games? Track meets?
Some parents are wise enough to not enroll their kids in dance. And track meets are the only thing worse than swim meets- don’t even get me started.
Just because your club has been to 3 meets already doesn’t mean that has to have dominated your weekends. That makes it really nice- go to one session per meet or maybe 2 sessions total. You have plenty of swim opportunity and opportunity to do anything else you desire, as long as you plan ahead.
Anonymous
05/11/2026 21:24
Subject: How many LC Meets for your team/practice group + when does your pool switch practice to LC?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The person who wrote 4-5 also wrote depending on if they choose to go to summer NCSAs so I read that as 3 before PVS Champs, then potentially the local and a national level summer champs meets.
I’m the poster you’re mentioning and that’s correct, 3 pre-champs LC meets, PVS champs and then potentially summer NCSA.
+ super sectionals