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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But the time standards are normed for the percentage of kids that can hit particular times. If male and female swimmers were by and large still the same size and strength with just a few outliers when they are 13-14 you would expect the standards would be closer the way they are at 11-12. The AA 100 yard fly standard for a 13-14 girl is a little over 5 seconds slower than what it takes to get a AA for a 13-14 year old boy. The difference is over 6 seconds at the B standard. This doesn’t seem to be bearing out the idea that most 13-14 male swimmers are the same size and strength as the 13-14 year old girls. [/quote]
+1 
I don’t minimize that it’s frustrating for pre-pubescent 13-14 boys. But that doesn’t make the cuts “unreasonable”.  The cuts are designed to yield a level of Champs qualifiers, which they are. 
And the subtle implication from some posters that the system is somehow unfair to boys and goes easy on girls really fires me up and is inaccurate. [/quote]

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