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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pool gives out the award but I don’t know how it’s calculated re: A/B times or which strokes. I do know it’s a percentage improvement not a number of seconds.

I also can’t imagine that a kid knows all the other kids times well enough to feel they were robbed. By the nature of the award, a kid who gets it is probably not swimming A meets to start the season. [/quote]

I’ll add in that at our pool it’s a way to give an award to a kid that didn’t get a lot of meet time or ribbons. If your kid is swimming A meets and placing all season, then it’s just greedy to be quibbling over how “most improved” or “best sportsmanship” are determined. 
As many have said on other threads - summer Swim is Rec league. Summer swim is FUN. Summer swim is social. If you or your kid is that competitive about swimming, there are other outlets for you. Leave summer swim alone. [/quote]

I agree with this sentiment, but oddly at our pool, the "most improved" always goes to an A meet swimmer. [b]It never goes to B meet swimmers, even the ones who drop huge amounts of time.[/b] I think it is only time dropped at A meets. So I understand where OP is coming from, because I think the award does make the B meet kids feel invisible at our banquet.[/quote]

This is just plain wrong. I can see it going to a B meet swimmer who works hard, drops a lot of time and makes A meets.  But this is the one award that B meet swimmers can get - it shouldn't go to a kid who swims A meets on a regular basis just because they dropped time.  [/quote]

NP, at our club B meet swimmers never get any awards. Everything goes to a handful of A meet swimmers at every age. It makes some sense because those are the kids that the coaches are around the most and interact with the most. We learned to not bother going to ceremonies. [/quote]

I’m sorry that just sucks.  Are the coaches not attending all practices and B meets? Our team is large, over 200. The head coaches know the all the kids by name and ask each kid to come talk to them after each race (A or B meet). This is supposed to be fun for everyone not an extension of club swim.  [/quote]

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