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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our NVSL team swims up swimmers in A meets only to fill empty lanes (when there is no one in that age group to swim the event).  We would never leave off a swimmer (absent some sort of discipline issue) to swim someone up from a younger age group.

As a former team rep, I am actually surprised that some teams do that as part of strategy to win, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.[/quote]

I've been an NVSL team rep for a long time (and consider myself a card carrying crazy swim parent) and there would be a shit storm on our team if younger kids were allowed to bump older kids and swim up in A meets. Summer swim is supposed to be fun. The younger kids look up to the older kids. I wouldn't want older kids to stop participating because they are getting bumped out of meets.[/quote]

This is where I'm at.  In my 4 years as team rep, the coaches never submitted a lineup to me that had a swim-up into a lane that could have been filled by another swimmer in the designated.  It just wasn't the way we operated, and I'm glad I didn't have to consider how to handle it.

Since I left the position, it looks like a new coach has done it a couple times, but both appear to be a case where the kid in the appropriate age group who was bypassed missed more practices than he attended and/or didn't have a time b/c he didn't bother to show at time trials or B meets. It still makes me a bit uncomfortable.

In the end, I don't like the practice of bypassing kids to swim up younger swimmers.  I guess its just the way I see the spirit of the NVSL.   [/quote]

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