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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do most teams require the coach to use ranked times for individual events too?  That had always been our team policy but we have a new coach and he skipped a swimmer in one event (but not another event) for today’s meet. And not even back to back events - he skipped her in free and is swimming her in breast. Seems like it would be terrible for morale. [/quote]

Most teams leave it up to the coach's discretion. They may want to give a child an opportunity one meet so they may skip over someone. Swimmers can only swim three individual events so sometimes the fastest kid doesn't get to swim all his or her preferred strokes. It's really based on balancing need for the team. If it's a close meet and they think that they already have fast swimmers who can win in backstroke according to seed times they may put your child in breast stroke for the third stroke even though they are the top in backstroke.[/quote]

This seems wrong to me. The teams I know if allude the ladder. I am not new to swimming, and I myself swam competitively for decades, so I get the strategy of the coach picking the swimmer’s three strokes. If the coach wants to put someone at breast instead of free, that’s fine. But I have never heard of a coach getting to skip swimmers on the ladder because he likes a slower swimmer better. That is terrible for team morale. Especially on a huge team where the coach doesn’t know all the swimmers. [/quote]

What seems wrong? No one said it's completely up to the coach's whim. Everyone including this PP explained that they usually follow the ladder but leave some room for the coaches to have input the decisions. The good thing about summer swim is that there are parent reps and volunteers who provide a balance of power. If they left off a child entirely because they didn't like her that's not going to fly. The coach will be called out on that and will have to fix. An example is if they want to give one child an opportunity who is very close on times and may have been left out due to having a bad swim one day they might do that if the another swimmer above her had one great swim that was an anomaly and never duplicated that time again. Do you see what people are saying?
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