Cuts for Making HS Team

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Anonymous wrote:This is totally insane. High school swimming is a waste of time. No one cares. No one. Club swimming is the king.

Metro is one of the fastest meets in the entire East Coast and it is insanely intense and fun. Elite club swimmers, coaches, college coaches all care about this meet.

Is it just states for people that don’t have states? Genuinely asking, not throwing shade.

It’s also the one local meet where club kids from all the clubs get to swim each other (however excluding most the NoVa PVS kids).

It’s so fast and so fun, but it’s mostly PVS kids racing each other and scoring points for their school. It is a social party on deck, and kids really want to swim fast and see their friends swim fast.

There’s good team spirit/competition in the handful of top teams.

The MoCo public kids who go on to States care much less about States, even though it’s pretty cool to be a state champion or team contender. But even that is split into two meets, so metros is the one meet everyone is together.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is totally insane. High school swimming is a waste of time. No one cares. No one. Club swimming is the king.

Metro is one of the fastest meets in the entire East Coast and it is insanely intense and fun. Elite club swimmers, coaches, college coaches all care about this meet.

Metros. With the "s". Not "Metro" - nobody who is anybody knows what you are talking about saying "Metro"...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is totally insane. High school swimming is a waste of time. No one cares. No one. Club swimming is the king.

Metro is one of the fastest meets in the entire East Coast and it is insanely intense and fun. Elite club swimmers, coaches, college coaches all care about this meet.

Metros. With the "s". Not "Metro" - nobody who is anybody knows what you are talking about saying "Metro"...

The use of the extra “s” on the Metro Meet and State Championship is so grating. It’s like people who say, “Graduated high school” without using the preposition “from.” There is one Metro meet. There is one State meet. “Metros” and “States” sounds stupid, so thank you to the person who used proper singular/plural.

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The kids at Metros spend all their time on deck talking about re-classing and gap years

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Metros use to be a real meet. A fast meet. It has fallen off the last two years. The real talent of the DMV lies across the bridge.

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Anonymous wrote:Metros use to be a real meet. A fast meet. It has fallen off the last two years. The real talent of the DMV lies across the bridge.

Something is amiss in the pool water of MoCo. Aside from two or three deeply talented swimmers, it seems Narcissus has snuck into town under the dark sky. He has replaced the chlorine with the same water that forced him to fall in love with himself many years ago. Talent has been replaced with mediocrity. Talent has been replaced with 'reels.' Talent is not something the parents of today understand.

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Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

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Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

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Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

Actually, we're talking about 14 to 18 year old girls. And as a specific example, all the winter classic B finalists in open 100 breast and the 14 year olds in 13-14 tonight have a 100 free under a minute. All the "specialists" should be making the B final.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

Actually, we're talking about 14 to 18 year old girls. And as a specific example, all the winter classic B finalists in open 100 breast and the 14 year olds in 13-14 tonight have a 100 free under a minute. All the "specialists" should be making the B final.

You’re comparing winter classic finalists with kids fighting to make the bottom of a bloated high school team roster. Apples and hand grenades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

Actually, we're talking about 14 to 18 year old girls. And as a specific example, all the winter classic B finalists in open 100 breast and the 14 year olds in 13-14 tonight have a 100 free under a minute. All the "specialists" should be making the B final.

You’re comparing winter classic finalists with kids fighting to make the bottom of a bloated high school team roster. Apples and hand grenades.

I'm saying that 1:02.50 is a perfectly reasonable standard for 100 freestyle to keep the team from getting too bloated, and someone saying they can't meet that standard because they're a breaststroker is full of it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

Actually, we're talking about 14 to 18 year old girls. And as a specific example, all the winter classic B finalists in open 100 breast and the 14 year olds in 13-14 tonight have a 100 free under a minute. All the "specialists" should be making the B final.

You’re comparing winter classic finalists with kids fighting to make the bottom of a bloated high school team roster. Apples and hand grenades.

I'm saying that 1:02.50 is a perfectly reasonable standard for 100 freestyle to keep the team from getting too bloated, and someone saying they can't meet that standard because they're a breaststroker is full of it.

1:02.5 a reasonable standard: Ok

Can’t meet it because there’re a breaststroke: Not full of it at all. Just say you don’t know any breaststroke specialists.

I’d gladly give you names of 5 kids I can personally name that fall under this criteria. But I’m not calling kids out. Hell, in 1 minute of research I came up with five 13-14 girls that made NVSL all stars in breaststroke that were not in the top 100 in freestyle, and aren’t sniffing 1:02.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

Actually, we're talking about 14 to 18 year old girls. And as a specific example, all the winter classic B finalists in open 100 breast and the 14 year olds in 13-14 tonight have a 100 free under a minute. All the "specialists" should be making the B final.

You’re comparing winter classic finalists with kids fighting to make the bottom of a bloated high school team roster. Apples and hand grenades.

I'm saying that 1:02.50 is a perfectly reasonable standard for 100 freestyle to keep the team from getting too bloated, and someone saying they can't meet that standard because they're a breaststroker is full of it.

1:02.5 a reasonable standard: Ok

Can’t meet it because there’re a breaststroke: Not full of it at all. Just say you don’t know any breaststroke specialists.

I’d gladly give you names of 5 kids I can personally name that fall under this criteria. But I’m not calling kids out. Hell, in 1 minute of research I came up with five 13-14 girls that made NVSL all stars in breaststroke that were not in the top 100 in freestyle, and aren’t sniffing 1:02.

Losers

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is.

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast.

And a really stupid metric for someone who is, say, a breast specialist

I do not know any breast specialists who are not also well under a minute in the 100 free. If they can't hit that, it's an excuse, not a specialty. 55 seconds, sure maybe not reasonable, but a minute two?

I can think of a bunch. We’re talking about 13 and 14-year-old girls.

Actually, we're talking about 14 to 18 year old girls. And as a specific example, all the winter classic B finalists in open 100 breast and the 14 year olds in 13-14 tonight have a 100 free under a minute. All the "specialists" should be making the B final.

You’re comparing winter classic finalists with kids fighting to make the bottom of a bloated high school team roster. Apples and hand grenades.

I'm saying that 1:02.50 is a perfectly reasonable standard for 100 freestyle to keep the team from getting too bloated, and someone saying they can't meet that standard because they're a breaststroker is full of it.

1:02.5 a reasonable standard: Ok

Can’t meet it because there’re a breaststroke: Not full of it at all. Just say you don’t know any breaststroke specialists.

I’d gladly give you names of 5 kids I can personally name that fall under this criteria. But I’m not calling kids out. Hell, in 1 minute of research I came up with five 13-14 girls that made NVSL all stars in breaststroke that were not in the top 100 in freestyle, and aren’t sniffing 1:02.

50s without blocks in summer league is not relevant here, especially since they are competing with 15-18 for spots. I would say a specialist should be under 1:16 for breast. PVS girls I saw right at that standard are all under 1:02 in free. If one isn't, well she might have to wait until sophomore year to join a varsity team.