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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I swear some of you just don't understand trying to win meets.

My kids was the fastest in 3 strokes this year (free, back, and breast). At the start of the season she was swimming free and breast in A meets (her two best). Then in the third meet the coach switched her to back and breast. She came in second in back, but would have easily won free. Were we mad? No, of course not. Looking at the times from our team and the other team it was obvious that the second fastest swimmer on our team in free was going to easily win and that our daughter had a chance to win back while the second fastest back swimmer on our team had no chance. Our coach was trying to win the meet.

It "cost" my kid a chance to have a perfect season and win every race in every A meet. But it was what was best for the team. It was an awesome learning opportunity for her. When we explained it to her she had no problem with it because she wanted to do what was best for the team.

I can create the lineup for our team for A meets just by looking at our ladder and looking up the other teams times in mynvls.com. Clearly I spend way too much time on this, but I'm usually pretty close each week to what our coach picks. The places where I get it wrong are almost always minor judgment calls that could go either way.

The best part about this is there is no drama because the meet lineups follow two rules:
1. Do what is best for the team
2. Fastest swimmer swims
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Now try this scenario.  The coach puts your kid in fly and one of their swimmers in free.  Your team losses free, when your kid would have won, and your kid finishes 4th in fly.  Something's fishy right?  That's the scenario people are complaining about.  [/quote]

Something similar happened to my DC too. I was miffed but not upset because it was a good learning experience and an opportunity to work on their weaknesses. The few times DC didn’t win an A meet event were all in their weaker events when they finished behind a teammate who basically specializes in that event. And sure enough, each time that happened the team lost in DC’s stronger events (events DC would have won). [/quote]

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