Anonymous
06/14/2026 21:11
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:Do the Alexandria/S Arlington and adjacent teams have a B meet league?
Holling Hills, Hollin Meadows, Stratford, Parklawn, Riverside Gardens, Pinewood Lake, Mansion House, Mount Vernon Park, Little Hunting Park, Lincolnia Park, Waynewood, Hayfield Farm, Highland Park?
No. But these teams have B meets with one another.
LHP and Hollon Hills do TT together. Swim against Waynewood etc.
Anonymous
06/14/2026 20:39
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:
So for three years running our team has not been able to keep B meet partners. We also only manage to get four when I am now realizing most teams have five B meets. For example from last year to this year, we have kept only one B meet partner. We are still relatively new to summer swim, but is this normal? The other nearby pool seems more consistent with their schedule (we are on a few other waitlists because of vibes at time at our current pool).
If you are not in a B meet league, do you keep your partners? What reasons do you not?
Our club is only doing four B meets this year, in past years. I think we may have only had three on some years, maybe even only two last year due to rainouts. We do one or two "intra-squad" meets. The thing is ours is a very large and competitive club. Many of the nearby teams won't feature kids in the later meets, so it doesn't really make sense to pack up go to go swim in a shallow(slow) pool that no-one is going to improve their personal best at, just to swim against other kids from our team. Many of the better swimmers skip out on the B-meets for this reason, even if they are eligible for some off strokes.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 23:28
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:
Vienna Developmental League
Hunter Mill
Vienna Woods
Lakevale
Vienna Aquatic Club
Cardinal Hill
Plus Shouse Village and Dunn Loring
Anonymous
06/12/2026 21:43
Subject: Re:Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't think that mclean league actually exists. We belong to one of those pools. We definitely have some of those pools as b meet partners, but we also have some not on that list. And who we swim changes from year to year. And the host sets the rules for each meet. So there is no 'league' consistency.
Interesting. Our website calls our B meet league “McLean Developmental League.”
https://hamletgreenfeet.swimtopia.com/team-handbook
Maybe once upon a time such a league existed but doesn’t now. These are just a bunch of pools within convenient driving distance from each other so preferred B Meet partners. We are at one of these pools and our B Meets are with other teams on the list but we set these up independently. There is no league.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 21:32
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:Here is what I could gather on B Meet leagues for teams that are also in NVSL. There may be errors, but I thought this board could both correct the errors and thought it would be helpful to OP:
Springfield Burke Developmental League
South Run
Orange Hunt
Fox Hunt
Springboard
Rolling Hills
Rolling Forest
Cottontail
Ravensworth
Walden Glen
Hunt Valley
Crosspointe
Fairfax Station
Newington Forest
Old Keene Mill
Laurel Hill
Daventry
Village West
Rolling Valley
Springfield
Woodson Developmental League
Long Branch
Truro
Ilda
Canterbury Woods
Fair Oaks
Western Fairfax Developmental League
Sully Station
Brookfield
Greenbriar
Little Rocky Run
Poplar Tree
Oakton
Pleasant Valley
Virginia Run
Fairfax Area Swim Team (FAST) Developmental League
Fairfax Club Estates
Sideburn Run
Lakeview
Sully Station II
Kings Ridge
Fairfax Developmental League
Villa Aquatic
Mosby Woods
Country Club Hills
Mantua
McLean Developmental League
Hamlet
Donaldson Run
High Point Pool
Chesterbrook
Shouse Village
McLean
Langley
Overlee
Kent Gardens
Great Falls
Poplar Heights
B Meet League (unnamed)
Woodley
Camelot
Holmes Run
Parliament
Lake Braddock
Burke Station
Vienna Developmental League
Hunter Mill
Vienna Woods
Lakevale
Vienna Aquatic Club
Cardinal Hill
I added two that were missing from the Springfield Burke League.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 21:23
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Do the Alexandria/S Arlington and adjacent teams have a B meet league?
Holling Hills, Hollin Meadows, Stratford, Parklawn, Riverside Gardens, Pinewood Lake, Mansion House, Mount Vernon Park, Little Hunting Park, Lincolnia Park, Waynewood, Hayfield Farm, Highland Park?
Holling Hills, Hollin Meadows, Stratford, Parklawn, Riverside Gardens, Pinewood Lake, Mansion House, Mount Vernon Park, Little Hunting Park, Lincolnia Park, Waynewood, Hayfield Farm, Highland Park?
Anonymous
06/12/2026 21:14
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:Here is what I could gather on B Meet leagues for teams that are also in NVSL. There may be errors, but I thought this board could both correct the errors and thought it would be helpful to OP:
Springfield Burke Developmental League
South Run
Orange Hunt
Fox Hunt
Springboard
Rolling Hills
Rolling Forest
Cottontail
Ravensworth
Walden Glen
Hunt Valley
Crosspointe
Fairfax Station
Newington Forest
Old Keene Mill
Laurel Hill
Daventry
Village West
Woodson Developmental League
Long Branch
Truro
Ilda
Canterbury Woods
Fair Oaks
Western Fairfax Developmental League
Sully Station
Brookfield
Greenbriar
Little Rocky Run
Poplar Tree
Oakton
Pleasant Valley
Virginia Run
Fairfax Area Swim Team (FAST) Developmental League
Fairfax Club Estates
Sideburn Run
Lakeview
Sully Station II
Kings Ridge
Fairfax Developmental League
Villa Aquatic
Mosby Woods
Country Club Hills
Mantua
McLean Developmental League
Hamlet
Donaldson Run
High Point Pool
Chesterbrook
Shouse Village
McLean
Langley
Overlee
Kent Gardens
Great Falls
Poplar Heights
B Meet League (unnamed)
Woodley
Camelot
Holmes Run
Parliament
Lake Braddock
Burke Station
Vienna Developmental League
Hunter Mill
Vienna Woods
Lakevale
Vienna Aquatic Club
Cardinal Hill
Woodson Developmental League
Long Branch
Truro
Ilda
Canterbury Woods
Fairfax
Rutherford
Anonymous
06/12/2026 21:11
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:Here is what I could gather on B Meet leagues for teams that are also in NVSL. There may be errors, but I thought this board could both correct the errors and thought it would be helpful to OP:
Springfield Burke Developmental League
South Run
Orange Hunt
Fox Hunt
Springboard
Rolling Hills
Rolling Forest
Cottontail
Ravensworth
Walden Glen
Hunt Valley
Crosspointe
Fairfax Station
Newington Forest
Old Keene Mill
Laurel Hill
Daventry
Village West
Woodson Developmental League
Long Branch
Truro
Ilda
Canterbury Woods
Fair Oaks
Western Fairfax Developmental League
Sully Station
Brookfield
Greenbriar
Little Rocky Run
Poplar Tree
Oakton
Pleasant Valley
Virginia Run
Fairfax Area Swim Team (FAST) Developmental League
Fairfax Club Estates
Sideburn Run
Lakeview
Sully Station II
Kings Ridge
Fairfax Developmental League
Villa Aquatic
Mosby Woods
Country Club Hills
Mantua
McLean Developmental League
Hamlet
Donaldson Run
High Point Pool
Chesterbrook
Shouse Village
McLean
Langley
Overlee
Kent Gardens
Great Falls
Poplar Heights
B Meet League (unnamed)
Woodley
Camelot
Holmes Run
Parliament
Lake Braddock
Burke Station
Vienna Developmental League
Hunter Mill
Vienna Woods
Lakevale
Vienna Aquatic Club
Cardinal Hill
Fairfax Area Swim Team (FAST) Developmental League
Fairfax Club Estates
Sideburn Run
Lakeview
Sully Station II
Kings Ridge
+ Somerset Olde-Creek
+ Brandywine
+ Commonwealth Swim Club
Anonymous
06/12/2026 21:00
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Fairfax Developmental League
is
Fair Oaks
Villa Aquatic
Country Club Hills
Mosby Woods
Mantua
is
Fair Oaks
Villa Aquatic
Country Club Hills
Mosby Woods
Mantua
Anonymous
06/12/2026 20:56
Subject: Re:Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:I don't think that mclean league actually exists. We belong to one of those pools. We definitely have some of those pools as b meet partners, but we also have some not on that list. And who we swim changes from year to year. And the host sets the rules for each meet. So there is no 'league' consistency.
Interesting. Our website calls our B meet league “McLean Developmental League.”
https://hamletgreenfeet.swimtopia.com/team-handbook
Anonymous
06/12/2026 20:17
Subject: Re:Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:I don't think that mclean league actually exists. We belong to one of those pools. We definitely have some of those pools as b meet partners, but we also have some not on that list. And who we swim changes from year to year. And the host sets the rules for each meet. So there is no 'league' consistency.
Yep - no such thing as a McLean league, though many do swim together for convenience. One McLean team has a terrible time keeping B meet partners for reasons discussed upthread.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 20:04
Subject: Re:Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
I don't think that mclean league actually exists. We belong to one of those pools. We definitely have some of those pools as b meet partners, but we also have some not on that list. And who we swim changes from year to year. And the host sets the rules for each meet. So there is no 'league' consistency.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 17:32
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
Anonymous wrote:
There are several teams out there that are known to be not great B meet partners. Sometimes it is just because the team is so large. There are other teams that are just not welcoming or don't have a culture of treating a visiting team like a guest that is welcomed. This gives little incentive to keep them as partners.
Our B meet league is painful because a couple refuse to pre-seed. Multiple open lanes and super slow swimmers in every heat vs one heat. It adds sooooo much time.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 16:24
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
The Woodson B league is Fairfax, not Fair oaks and also includes Rutherford.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 13:08
Subject: Does your team have trouble keeping B meet partners (NVSL)
These teams might be in McLean League too, or maybe loosely associated:
Highlands
Dominion Hills
Arlington Forest
Overlee
Highlands
Dominion Hills
Arlington Forest
Overlee