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[quote=Anonymous]Yes -- it is all a big "it depends".

Is there a JV swim team at the school?  I am not aware of JV swimming.  Certainly not in my area.  If you are curious -- get on line for the school, and check out their swim team.  Is there a JV team or not.  If not -- there's your answer.  Everyone who swims is technically on the varsity team.

What matters for winning or losing is whether you earn points for your team.  A young swimmer certainly can do that if they are good vis a vis other kids on the team.  Different schools can have different criteria for earning a letter in a sport.  They might have to win a certain number of points, for example.  Or, swim for points a certain number of times.  That is up to the school and the coach really.

As an aside -- I am personally in favor of giving a kid a letter who

My kids were not high school swimmers.  They did, however,  go to a school that routinely was rolling out school and individual state swim championships.  And, it was a reasonably big public school (about 1200 kids).   There was no JV swim team.  Everyone was on the "varsity" team.  What matter though was whether you swam for points, and whether you earned points for the team.

Different schools

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