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Anonymous wrote:I would recommend Machine and think it meets your requirements. Your swimmer would likely be at Chesterbrook and/or Oakmont.

Oakmont and Chesterbrook are not close to Arlington. Maybe if you are really far north in Arlington - CB is a possiblity.

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend Machine and think it meets your requirements. Your swimmer would likely be at Chesterbrook and/or Oakmont.

Anonymous wrote:Jessie is leaving STJ. A lot of the top kids are jumping ship to avoid whatever merger remains.

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Anonymous wrote:Our program is losing their head coach and my children, along with many of their peers, are leaving.

We are lucky in that there is another team with great coaches that practices at the same time/place.

Which program is losing their coach?

I've heard VLAC and STJ are merging. Not sure of the details but they practice at the same place.

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Anonymous wrote:Our program is losing their head coach and my children, along with many of their peers, are leaving.

We are lucky in that there is another team with great coaches that practices at the same time/place.

Which program is losing their coach?

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Anonymous wrote:AAC is an excellent club. There is a parent on this thread and the other one whose kid probably didn’t get the recommendation they wanted and is now making it their mission to sully the name of AAC. But it’s an excellent club with very good coaches that prioritizes the right things. The only thing I’ll give that PP is that there have been a couple of surprising choices for next year’s groups that overlap with some board members’ children. But children of other board members were appropriately placed so the board membership overlap may be a coincidence.

I love the AAC Coaches and have no complaints. But the Boosters Board and their kid placements are very well known and an inside joke which is sad. There have been Booster Boards member kids in the Senior and Senior Prep that should be in Excel and Challenge and everyone knows it. They are given preferential treatment. Because their kids are not placed in the correct groups, these groups (even though they have outstanding coaching) are not treated the same by the Boosters in benefits extended. They should all get travel opportunities and great meets to attend.

How does that play out put when the kid is placed in a high-performing group that they can't keep up with? Does the kid know that? At the teen stage, kids know who the imposters are, including if it's themselves.

I would assume that the kids would know they are imposters. It just is messy because the other kids literally name these kids by name as to the floor to times for the group. No one is slower than X. They also frequently say they are only in that group because of their parent. These kids would be much better off in the appropriate group. They end up never making the cut times etc. so they are swimming in other meets without the group.

Anonymous wrote:Our program is losing their head coach and my children, along with many of their peers, are leaving.

We are lucky in that there is another team with great coaches that practices at the same time/place.