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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about for McLean HS?[/quote]

McLean generally will make some cuts, and nearly the entire team will be club swimmers at some level. Kids trying out will need to be legal and competent in all four strokes. If McC team is the goal, I'd make sure my kids was in the water 1-2 days a week starting in late elementary as a bare minimum, either on a PVS team or some kind or lesson/training program.[/quote]

Agree with the above.

Coach does try to accommodate all who try out for MSD. For those who ‘don’t make the cut’ he offered manager positions and also offered them to be on the team with no promise of swimming meets.

Having said that, several  who were told ‘can’t promise that you will swim meets’, have swam in the last few meets - because other kids were out for Winter Classic and NCAP.[/quote]

You should also push your coaches to try to negotiate for more entries per team per event.  By rule, the default is 3 entries per team in a pool with 6 lanes or more.  However, by mutual consent of coaches you can swim as many entries as equally provided to both teams.  We are blessed in this area with lots of 10 lane pools, so if you swim in 10 lane pools try to push your coaches to negotiate for 5 entries per team.  There are lots of ways to make it fair to the smaller team, ie marking some as exhibition, changing the scoring system, etc.   It's really a shame to be swimming in a 10 lane pool only using 6 of those lanes.  [/quote]

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