Comments on: Northern Region girls get swims in before storm

By: swimfan

swimfan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:18:50 +0000

Good post.Too much negativity when coaches parents should be concerned with whether or not they will get to swim in high school next year. Swim parent,katy,hscoach and 3amom should get a life indeed and start worrying about if their kids will be on hs teams next year.

By: dvi

dvi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:59:55 +0000

you just got burned!!! but i do agree with you mclean.

By: swim parent

swim parent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:22:05 +0000

which includes you since you have the time to post as much as anyone else

By: mclean

mclean — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:24:14 +0000

This thread just baffles me and I am amazed at some of the posts. At a time when schools are threatening to cut swimming from their budgets, you are argueing over what division is better AA or AAA? You are probably the same kind of parents that judge an athletes college choice based on swim rankings or if it’s D1,D2,D3..Your competitive streak extends to your childrens high school athletic endeavours and that is unfortunate.
You know the funny thing is the swimmers dont do this, its the parents. Athletes realize their are good swimmers at every school and in every division and that high school swimming is something to be enjoyed for the few years they can participate. They dont think oh no, I’m in A or AA or AAA..they just think about their team.
Who has more, who is better,who is inferior….what a message being sent to the kids.
What is clear to me is WHO has too much time on their hands and needs to get a new hobby.

By: hscoach

hscoach — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:59:54 +0000

Well swim parent, in your zest to defend katy and 3Amom and the honor of AAA swiming,I guess you didnt take the time to read my post..the part that said ,” And I think you are missing my point and that is it doesn’t mater if you are A,AA AAA or AAAA, northern or southern VA…AAA does not have a monopoly on good swimmers and I just pointed it out”

Initially my post was meant to be tongue and check, just throwing some smack to get all you parents ,(especially 3Amom) of wood be AAA Olympians foaming at the mouth and again to show great swimmers can come from anywhere. I guess I didn’t go back far enough in history though..I was thinking last 5 years because AA S&D is relatively young, especially in your neck of the woods..some of the high schools in my part of the state didnt even have swim teams until 10-15 years ago.
But within the past 5 years, AA-A programs have had some swimmers go on to do some impressive things and you can play “I’ll show you mine” all you want but my numbers( top 10,top25,top100) dont lie . Walters in the only other Olympian to come out of Virginia in the last few years beside Ziegler.

So all you AA swimmers and parents out there, don’t let a couple parents make you believe your program is inferior…believe me its not..

And yea, I am a high school coach and love my job and i do what I do because its my job. I am not a parent who makes themselves feel good or important by putting down kids in other divisions.

By: swim parent

swim parent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:11:44 +0000

hscoach… your examples explain why you are a high school coach…. Tom dolan, Ed Moses, Markus Rogan, Kristina Han, all Olympians, all same AAA… Mei Christensen, Ashley danner, 2 swimmers in the top 100…… please don’t come to this forum advocating that AA high school swimming has produced more or better swimmers than AAA, the numbers don’t support you… you sound almost as crazy as 3Aswimmom

By: katy

katy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:17:38 +0000

AAA is better

By: hscoach

hscoach — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:09:59 +0000

Well, first Kate Ziegler was not in AAA (I belive she went to a private catholic school)and she is a GREAT swimmer, no doubt..Dolan was in AAA but I think has his AARP card , or close to it ..

And I think you are missing my point and that is it doesnt mater if you are A,AA AAA or AAAA, northern or southern VA…AAA does not have a monopoly on good swimmers and I just pointed it out

By: idontfloat

idontfloat — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:00:04 +0000

Only Olympian? What is that supposed to mean? Ever heard of Tom Dolan? Maybe Kate Ziegler doesn’t count but she’s from here.

The irony of this argument is that high school programs have zero relevance regarding elite swimmers’ development besides learning fun cheers.

By: hscoach

hscoach — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:43:32 +0000

Yo, KATY: SHOW ME THE NAME OF AN AAA SWIMMER ON THE LIST ABOVE, THE TOP PERFORMANCES RAANKED AS HIGHLY AS THE “INFERIOR” AA SOUTHERN VIRGINA SWIMMERS..
Get off your AAA high horse and realize percentage wise their are probably the same that go on to swim but AA has the ONLY OLYMPIAN>>>>DAVE WALTERS!! and AA has TWO swimmers in the top Walters and Mcclean..and a Rhodes scholar,Anderson..back it up with your “stand out stars” If they aint on the list
I dont care if you can write a novel, so can I ..show me the names !!