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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have a swimmer on a HS team and she is saying that no one makes it who doesn't have at least a 1:10 in 100 free (women's). Not sure how accurate that is. [/quote]

For my kid's school it's 1:02. And yes, there will be cuts to get down to 30 girls, and yes some kids who swim club will be cut.[/quote]

1:02? Is this a local school - that seems very fast. [/quote]

Good 10 and 11 year olds are swimming that fast so it doesn't seem like an unreasonable cut for high schoolers to me.[/quote]I just looked at the psych sheet for our club meet this weekend and not a single 10 or 11 yo has a time that fast.  There are about a dozen 12 yos (co-ed) under 1:02, and less than half of the 13+ swimmers (35/100 women and 55/93 men).  I'm sure there are more elite meets, but that is a fast time even for club swimmers.[/quote]

I saw multiple 11-12 kids break 1:00 in the 100 free at a meet recently. I think they were NCAP. Not many, but 2 or 3.

Anyway, don’t high school coaches look at club swimming times when factoring in who makes the team? It seems tryouts might be good for schools with hardly any club swimmers, for assessing the size or potential of kids who haven’t swam as much, and making sure they are coachable. But aren’t recent club times the best indicator of who is the fastest?  
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