Pro Swim Series Ticket Prices Spike to $149 (All-Session) in Richmond

Tickets for the 3rd stop of the 2019 Pro Swim Series in Richmond, Virginia and Bloomington, Indiana are on sale now, and prices for the Richmond stop

An all-sessions pass in Richmond is listed at $149 (with no discounts for children). That meet will be held from April 10th-13th. The 4th stop in Bloomington, meanwhile, is selling all-session passes for just $60 for adults and $45 for children. That stop runs from May 17th-19th (only 3 days, versus the 4 days that all of the other stops will be).

In Knoxville to open the series, premium all-session passes were $85, which was on-par with last year’s opener in Austin. Austin was the most expensive stop in the 2018 series, however, with most meets having all-sessions passes for $60-or-less (see comparison table here).

The meet in Richmond will be hosted at the Collegiate School Aquatics Center. The 50-meter pool was the one used for the 2008 US Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska.

Individual session and all-session tickets for Richmond and Bloomington are available here.

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Nepotism
5 years ago

Somebody in Richmond obviously failed their Marketing 101 class, cause they have no idea how to set a price point.

Nepotism
Reply to  Braden Keith
5 years ago

If you have a captive audience, why stop at $150, why not $300 or $500. At some point, the parents will just drop their swimmer off and sit in the grocery store parking lot around the corner from Swim RVA pool and pull up the free webstream and save themselves the ridiculous ticket fee.

Richmond’s price point just reinforces the elite country club image of swimming when it should be marketing the sport to young children from across the economic spectrum.

Leo
5 years ago

Unless you are a parent who would pay $30 for the Wednesday evening 800 only session?

Vlada Pfund
5 years ago

Hi are you Swim at ymca

Swimmomtoo
5 years ago

The good news, parking won’t be an issues at the pool.
The bad? What to guess the price of a slice of pizza?

VA Steve
5 years ago

Yes, that means that my daughter and I will not go even though we live 90 minutes away–we were hoping to take in a final/prelim/final one of the weekend days like we did in Indy last year. That trip was much less expensive (aside from the flights). I’ll be interested to see how full the stands are.

2014Alum
5 years ago

GRAP, the host facility in Richmond, has a history of overpricing for facility usage and event hosting. Hope that isn’t the case here, as $150 tickets won’t put fans in the seats!

Zeke4Heisman
5 years ago

Do the athletes receive a portion of the ticket sales?

Bevo
5 years ago

This is not good for spectators! That is expensive and most likely be empty stands.

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