Seeding B meets survey

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD swims for an NVSL team that doesn't seed B meets. Kids go to CoC with their cards, which are collected and arranged into heats by event number. We will mix genders for the final heat of boys/first heat of girls if the numbers make sense to cut down on empty lanes. The older kids tend to be a bit less structured since CoC will often let them choose their own lanes and/or ask to swim in a heat with a friend regardless of seed times.

I'm glad they don't pre-seed. There are always kids who sign up for B meets and don't show, so there'd be a lot of empty lanes if they did. This way CoC is able to send out full heats most of the time and the meet runs more efficiently.

Wow - we don't really get many no-shows at our B meets except for illness. I can understand how last-minute drop-outs would be a significant logistical problem.

But I also think that requesting lanes isn't a great way to acclimate kids to how swimming works if they're planning to continue with the sport. Yes, summer swim is rec league and fun (believe me, I'm very much into that), but preseeding heats by times shows swimmers that B meets are being taken seriously and so are their times and their hard work. I'm therefore pro-seeding but still have a lot of respect for people who can build heats from cards in the moment.

Different CoC worker here. The kids who ask to swim with their friends are, as PP mentioned, older. They are usually club and often also high school swimmers. They know how it works and they are in rec for the fun. Half the time they're asking to swim with a classmate at the other pool.

Part of this is the fact that we're such a low division pool that there's almost no such thing as an "A meet swimmer." Basically everyone swims A meets. But our B meet league has some significantly higher division pools and it works this way across the league.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD swims for an NVSL team that doesn't seed B meets. Kids go to CoC with their cards, which are collected and arranged into heats by event number. We will mix genders for the final heat of boys/first heat of girls if the numbers make sense to cut down on empty lanes. The older kids tend to be a bit less structured since CoC will often let them choose their own lanes and/or ask to swim in a heat with a friend regardless of seed times.

I'm glad they don't pre-seed. There are always kids who sign up for B meets and don't show, so there'd be a lot of empty lanes if they did. This way CoC is able to send out full heats most of the time and the meet runs more efficiently.

We're NVSL, a middling division team. When my middle DS was in high school, one of his female friends on the team was one of the area's top swimmers and went on to swam D1 in college. When they were in high school they always wanted to swim next to each other in the B meets in IM. Her best time was within milliseconds of my DS' time so they were always pushing each other. Otherwise, in B meets, neither one of them had any competition.

[Anonymous]

NVSL pool who doesn't seed B meets, no heat sheet. We have an entry deadline, typically about 36 hours before the meet.

They try to fill the lanes in every heat as much as possible. You will see 13-18yo swimming together (and boys and girls, too) in an attempt to make the meet go faster.

[Anonymous]

NVSL and our last B meet was pre-seeded by age and gender (for example, 8 and under girls for freestyle, the last meet had 7 heats, with faster girls in heat 1).

[Anonymous]

NVSL. We use regular age groups (with an additional 6 & Under group, but typically just for Free/Back). Genders mixed within age groups if they can be combined to save a heat.

No formal time seeding, but clerk or course will typically try to group swimmers generally by time if there are multiple heats.