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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a crazy parent (I think NVSL is generally nuts) but I would be annoyed if our team accepted times from makeup swims at practice in lieu of swimming at time trials. Our team does two time trials though, so there's really no excuse. If there's no stroke and turn judge present, the time should not count. Even experienced swimmers sometimes DQ at time trials if they haven't raced in a while, or if they've aged up from 8 to 9 and are still learning proper turns. Going by last summer's times you risk having swimmers who will DQ or kids taking spots away from someone more deserving just based on their past hitsory. No one is entitled to swim in the first A meet just because they have had fast times in the past. Things can change a lot in a school year. Kids who were fast can fade, and kids who weren't top 3 can suddenly emerge. I have seen this happen among year round club swimmers so it's not just a matter of who swam over the winter or not.

If you have other sports or events that conflict, you either miss those or deal with the fact that you can't swim in the first A meet. Every summer should start with a blank slate. Teams who don't do it this way are the crazy ones who care only about winning. That's a terrible culture for a summer league team. [/quote]
If you are typing all that and still think you aren’t crazy NVSL parent I don’t know what to tell you. To me the bottom line is if you have say a 12 year old who has to use last year’s times for seeding at the first meet and those times from age 11 are good enough to make the A meet, so be it. If you’re being honest the true objection there is that the kid is fast and you think it’s unfair that slower Larlo had to go to time trials, even though he still couldn’t beat that kid’s time from a year ago. I can see the objection to kids who don’t show up to time trials or the makeup and don’t have a good enough time from last year to make the A meet though. [/quote]

You couldn’t be more wrong regarding your assumptions about me. I have just been around this sport a long time and have strong feelings about what summer swim should be even if my own kid would benefit from what you describe. A time from 10 months ago means nothing and should not be used to make decisions about who swims in a meet this summer. Plenty of kids start out summer slower than they were at the end of last summer because they haven’t been swimming nearly as often. Let’s say kid A shows up at time trials and almost beats the time that the 11 year old in your scenario (kid B) did last year. Meanwhile you know nothing about how kid B would do right now because they didn’t show up to time trials. Should kid B get the third spot in the lineup over kid A because you just assume they will be faster than last year? What if they’re not? Why shouldn’t kid A have to prove themselves? If they’re so good they can grace everyone with their presence at time trials. No one on a summer team is too good to show up at the events. [/quote]

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