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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's wonderful about swimming, as compared to classic team sports, is how objective it is. 
You know your exact times on the races, and you know everyone else's exact time. No arguing over whose better or worse.
With that said, [b]swim team coaches preach non-stop about "dropping time", and can, and will, put swimmers with slightly lower scores into A meets if they're improving, over someone with better scores that have plateaued. 
[/b]TL;DR version...the more practice you go to the better, but if you miss a few it won't kill you. [/quote]

Bs - please do tell the name of the team that does this. We’ve been at 3 summer pools and I’ve never seen this. Pool Name, please. [/quote]

Each kid can only swim two individual events at a meet.  Often the same child is in the top 2 or 3 swimmers in all four strokes, so they have to strategically decide which events they want their top one or two swimmers in, versus the other events.  [/quote]

This!

If a kid is NOT already swimming in 2 events and has one of the top three times in another even then that kid will swim. There is no coach that would choose to have a kid with a slower time swim over kid who have faster times. Swimming just doesn't work that way; kids who earn the spot to swim swim.[/quote]

I’m the bs poster. I agree with how this is stated. I disagree that, as the above poster claimed, “With that said, swim team coaches preach non-stop about "dropping time", and can, and will, put swimmers with slightly lower scores into A meets if they're improving, over someone with better scores that have plateaued.”  That would never happen. [/quote]

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