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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does individual swimmer performance at divisionals mean anything for team standing? Or is it only about an individual swimmer's rankings?

Curious about whether a coach is motivated to assign slots based on having the best overall outcome for the team or if slots awarded based on top swimmer's preferences only. (New family obviously, essentially wondering if strong swimmers in free or back who are only legal options for breast/fly could be asked to swim those, even if they'd rather do free/back).[/quote]

It does absolutely nothing for the team.  Honestly coached don't really care.  Fastest is put in and that is it - some prestige if you can get your kids into All-Stars and that is it.

Division rankings were done after the last A meet.[/quote]
Coaches make the ultimate decision though. I know of a situation in which a kid had one good race in a stroke and posted a time that was good for 2nd by a tenth of a second or so, but because that kid wasn’t consistently putting that kind of time down the kid in 3rd, who was extremely consistent, got the divisional spot.[/quote]

Wow, that is really terrible. On our team, the time is the time.  [/quote]
I thought that was the case too. Although I will say the kid never was within a second of their low time during any other race the whole season, and other than the 1 race wasn’t even the 3rd best time.[/quote]

I could see this is a coach believed the time was an error. We had a kid make the relay team one year based on 1 B meet time that everyone, including the kid's parents, believed was an error.

Overall though, on our team top swimmers get to pick what they want to swim. If a kid has the top time in all 5 events they get to pick the 2 they want to swim at divisionals. Kids pick based on which stroke they prefer or which ones they think they have the best chance of making all stars or placing higher at divisionals. [/quote]

We had a similar situation where one kid has a time that was the second fastest, posted in the first meet of the season, but then never swam near that time the rest of the season. The coach gave the second divisionals spot to the third fastest swimmer who was consistently faster than the second fastest kid's time. While the "ladder is the ladder," coaches should be able to get some flexibility for those second spots. Our NVSL team generally works with the ladder though our team rep did sign up one of our 8&u kid to swim breast, which he hated, because he was the top seed and no one else from the team was legal. He was also top in the strokes and theoretically should have had the choice.[/quote]

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