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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole system is offensive. Mine were A meet kids and year round swimmers. But if they are all on the same team, they should all be able to swim at the same meet. Otherwise, why pay 200-300$ (or more ?) over your membership to have your kid attend packed, chaotic practices? Then get sent to the "B Meet" if your team is even "lucky" enough to have any.[/quote]

So don't join then.  You know how it works and you understand the terms of participation and you prefer not to live with them, which is understandable - no one thing suits everyone.  But some of us love summer swim and are willing to contribute to it.  Live and let live.[/quote]

fine, some kids will keep showing up to the A meets and the awards banquet and everyone else can "practice" 20 to a lane for an hour in freezing water then maybe go to a B meet. Its just bizarre. Teammates should be teammates.[/quote]

So do you think everyone should take turns swimming on Saturdays?  That the swimmers who go to relay carnival get picked out of a hat?  I have 2 kids.  One is super fast and swims in everything.  The other one has never made a Saturday meet.  Both love summer swim and participate in all of the team activities and have made great summer friends.  Personally I find it annoying when I sit and listen to parents complain that their child isn’t in a faster lane when they clearly don’t belong in it or complain because a coach isn’t giving them enough attention or just complain at all.  Summer swim is cheap and can be the best 5 weeks of the summer for your kid if you just chill out, let them have fun and stop thinking that everything has to be absolutely equal at all times.[/quote]

DP here.  Summer swim meets are supposed to be fun - but they are still a competition.  Kids learn to win graciously and lose honorably, or whatever way you want to characterize things.  Kids who choose to swim year-round are going to have an advantage over those who don't.  Teams want to win, and having year-round kids swim in A meets increases the chances of this happening.  This is no different than a team having "starters" and "backups", with the latter "riding the pine" more than the former.  Yet when the team wins, all members of the team win.

Parents are always going to complain when their kid isn't getting the attention they think s/he deserves.  [b]I'm a summer swim official and save my indignation for officials from the other team who are playing favorites (ignoring DQs or issuing DQs) to help their team win.  That's flat out wrong in my book.[/b][/quote]

A year ago I would have scoffed at the possibility of this kind of dirty officiating, but it happens all over the league. Not every team, of course, but I’ve witnessed it in a lower division.[/quote]

Yeah, I have reservations about those early time trials.  The problem is there aren't officials from another team, so it's run entirely by the swim team.  One of our A-meet swimmers had a bad false start problem, and she never beat her time trial time all summer.  I had a video, she didn't really false start, but wow she was off that wall fast.  It'd be pretty easy to just hit the timer when she started.  I thought it was interesting my DD actually had better starts at the other team's starters at the A-meets.  I think the other teams knew what she was up to.  They made them stand down several times.
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