Reply to Divisionals really shows why the unfair birthday rule matters

Forum Index » Swimming and Diving

Reply to "Divisionals really shows why the unfair birthday rule matters "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]For some background- prior to the rule change and setting a June 1 age cutoff the league DID have kids age up on their birthdays. They also had the policy that in order to use a time to swim at All Stars your time had to be sum in the age group you would swim in at All Stars. Meaning if a kid was 12 at divisionals and got an all star time that wouls qualify them in both the 11-12 and 13-14 age group they could not swim that event event in the 13-14 age group.

Now imagine they let them swim in the next age group even with an 11-12 yr old time. So on Divisional Saturday a 12 yr old gets a great time and result is in the 11-12 age group and make all stars. What If that time was also a qualifying time for the 13-14 group. They age up the following Friday do you now kick out kids who thought they made it as 13-14s because this other kid is now 13 and has a faster time?  Seems like a seeding nightmare.

you may say this wouldn't happen but there were kids who, because of the previous rule, could only swim at All Stars every other year/the year they didn't age up. Hence the rule change so kids are one age during all 7 weeks of summer swim.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics