Do your coaches select the divisional events?

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Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

What team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

I'll take things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else’s team not announced yet which swimmers are going to divisional and which strokes?

We’re still waiting and it has me anxious!

My DC knows but it takes a day or two to contact all the families/kids and fill in all the spots. Even then, especially in lower divisions, there are options for alternates to fill empty slots that won't be known until the all the teams in the division submit their initial rosters.

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Our coach picked. My DD wouldn't have gotten to choose anyway because there are two kids above her on the ladder except for the strokes she was put in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else’s team not announced yet which swimmers are going to divisional and which strokes?

We’re still waiting and it has me anxious!

Yes- we had preliminary entries sent on Tuesday afternoon. Bid ins this evening.

[Anonymous]

If we had swimmers in an age group who were top two for multiple strokes, they made their decisions and then others were slotted in. I have a child who is 3rd on ladder for multiple strokes, so their decision determined my child’s 2nd stroke. My child is happy to swim whatever and won’t make All Stars for that second stroke. Another child is top for exactly 2 strokes, so the choice was obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

I'll take things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.

It absolutely happened .... thank God the parent had a backbone, told the coach they need to follow the ladder for this individual event and their child wasn't going to sacrifice their earned slot to make another kid feel better, and then called the other team rep (not the parent of one who would have benefitted) and complained.

All of us are now wondering: is there an official NVSL policy about decisions on divisionals? Could a coach put a slower kid into divisionals in the name of boosting opportunities for all on the team or showing team rep kid they believe in him despite dq?

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Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

I'll take things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.

It absolutely happened .... thank God the parent had a backbone, told the coach they need to follow the ladder for this individual event and their child wasn't going to sacrifice their earned slot to make another kid feel better, and then called the other team rep (not the parent of one who would have benefitted) and complained.

All of us are now wondering: is there an official NVSL policy about decisions on divisionals? Could a coach put a slower kid into divisionals in the name of boosting opportunities for all on the team or showing team rep kid they believe in him despite dq?

Honestly, a team can do whatever it wants. We have had coaches not put in the fastest swimmers because they missed A meets for other sports. If another kid was close and available for all the A meets they got preference over the faster kid that played baseball.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

I'll take things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.

It absolutely happened .... thank God the parent had a backbone, told the coach they need to follow the ladder for this individual event and their child wasn't going to sacrifice their earned slot to make another kid feel better, and then called the other team rep (not the parent of one who would have benefitted) and complained.

All of us are now wondering: is there an official NVSL policy about decisions on divisionals? Could a coach put a slower kid into divisionals in the name of boosting opportunities for all on the team or showing team rep kid they believe in him despite dq?

On our team the coach calls the swimmers over in groups to work down the ladder (example: 9-10 girls, 8u boys, etc).

I heard one of the other girls guilt her friend not to pick an event so that she could swim it. The girl being guilted could have chosen any event for the most part except for one and this 10 year old stood there telling her not to pick her favorite stroke because then she would be sad and couldn’t swim.

I know there’s no perfect system here, but it’s sad to see swimmers get so emotionally invested in something like this that they put themselves over their friends. If there were cut times everyone who qualified could go but yes, then the meet would run way longer!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

I'll take things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.

It absolutely happened .... thank God the parent had a backbone, told the coach they need to follow the ladder for this individual event and their child wasn't going to sacrifice their earned slot to make another kid feel better, and then called the other team rep (not the parent of one who would have benefitted) and complained.

All of us are now wondering: is there an official NVSL policy about decisions on divisionals? Could a coach put a slower kid into divisionals in the name of boosting opportunities for all on the team or showing team rep kid they believe in him despite dq?

On our team the coach calls the swimmers over in groups to work down the ladder (example: 9-10 girls, 8u boys, etc).

I heard one of the other girls guilt her friend not to pick an event so that she could swim it. The girl being guilted could have chosen any event for the most part except for one and this 10 year old stood there telling her not to pick her favorite stroke because then she would be sad and couldn’t swim.

I know there’s no perfect system here, but it’s sad to see swimmers get so emotionally invested in something like this that they put themselves over their friends. If there were cut times everyone who qualified could go but yes, then the meet would run way longer!

Your coach is stupid. This should not be done in a group setting. It should either be done individually, starting with the top dog and moving down the chain, or done via online/written selection.

[Anonymous]

If you're top 2 in any event it's your choice. I think the coaches look at your times and overall times in your age group and let you know which ones you're most likely to make all stars in and that's how the swimmer ultimately picks.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get why everyone doesn’t do this using a Google form where the swimmers rank their preferences. It’s so easy! The top kids automatically get their first and second (or third, if they get to swim 3 events) choices. Then you go down the ladder and fill in the events based on what is left and the other swimmers’ preferences. Mine is third is one event and fourth in two others. They get to swim their first choice automatically because it’s the one in which they are third. They also get to swim their #2 and#3 ranked strokes because one of the top 3 in those events must have ranked those as their #4 and #5. A couple other kids are getting to swim events where they are lower on the ladder than my kid because my kid ranked those strokes as 4 and 5.

No need for phone calls or making kids pick events in front of each other. Kids on our team will talk a bit about what they are picking around the time form is due, but no one pressures each other to pick certain events that I am aware of.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:um, we just had a coach call a parent on our team and ask their kid to step down so another, older, kid could swim an event. No joke.

This same kid was also told he couldn't swim his top preference because the coaches wanted to give the slot to a team rep's kid whose only faster time in the event had resulted in a DQ.....

I'll take things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.

It absolutely happened .... thank God the parent had a backbone, told the coach they need to follow the ladder for this individual event and their child wasn't going to sacrifice their earned slot to make another kid feel better, and then called the other team rep (not the parent of one who would have benefitted) and complained.

All of us are now wondering: is there an official NVSL policy about decisions on divisionals? Could a coach put a slower kid into divisionals in the name of boosting opportunities for all on the team or showing team rep kid they believe in him despite dq?

On our team the coach calls the swimmers over in groups to work down the ladder (example: 9-10 girls, 8u boys, etc).

I heard one of the other girls guilt her friend not to pick an event so that she could swim it. The girl being guilted could have chosen any event for the most part except for one and this 10 year old stood there telling her not to pick her favorite stroke because then she would be sad and couldn’t swim.

I know there’s no perfect system here, but it’s sad to see swimmers get so emotionally invested in something like this that they put themselves over their friends. If there were cut times everyone who qualified could go but yes, then the meet would run way longer!

On the flip side of that coin we have a swimmer who is all star in almost all strokes but picked events to knock out the kids that were closest in her times and most likely to break her records.

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Are you sure that was the intent? If this is just your perspective then fine. Kids are very mercurial - I don’t pretend to always know why my own kids do what they do much less they they people’s kids.