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My issue is the inconsistent application of the rules. If it’s an honest mistake, then so be it, but there should be an effort to scrub the line-up. Otherwise, you are giving some kids opportunities that other kids aren’t being given. And let’s be real - there are definitely parents on my team who conveniently forget the rules when it comes to securing a meet spot, especially the week before Divisionals. For the PP who says if a swimmer isn’t legal in anything else, then let them swim - this also doesn’t seem fair to me. Why is it ok for a kid to be kept out of events when their teammate isn’t simply because she happens to be legal in other strokes? [/quote]

Just please tell me as one of the people who is tasked with “scrubbing the line-up” that you are stepping up to take on many many tasks for the team. I spend hours of time doing work behind the scenes for our team (and am mostly happy to do it) but stuff like this falls through the cracks, and it’s not because we are playing favorites. It’s because we have 6000 other things to take care of, and not enough people to help[/quote]

I feel the same as PP and I am someone who helps a lot. Have also spent hours behind the scenes in addition to on deck. Our last B meet was cancelled, but I saw the meet program before that happened, and a few kids were signed up for more strokes than the max number allowed as instructed to us at the time of signups. Based on who had done this it definitely seemed like certain families trying to game the system to get their kid extra swims before divisionals. I was fully prepared to ask them to deck seed one of my kids in an additional event while pointing out what I saw in the program. I don’t feel bad at all about this because of the amount that I do help. I hardly ever get to even watch my own kids swim. I can see people who are less involved feeling more reluctant to speak up, which is unfair. I don’t blame the people working the meet at all — it’s 100% certain parents knowing that the people running the meet are too busy to notice something like this and taking advantage. [/quote]

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