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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pool gives out the award but I don’t know how it’s calculated re: A/B times or which strokes. I do know it’s a percentage improvement not a number of seconds.

I also can’t imagine that a kid knows all the other kids times well enough to feel they were robbed. By the nature of the award, a kid who gets it is probably not swimming A meets to start the season. [/quote]

I’ll add in that at our pool it’s a way to give an award to a kid that didn’t get a lot of meet time or ribbons. If your kid is swimming A meets and placing all season, then it’s just greedy to be quibbling over how “most improved” or “best sportsmanship” are determined. 
As many have said on other threads - summer Swim is Rec league. Summer swim is FUN. Summer swim is social. If you or your kid is that competitive about swimming, there are other outlets for you. Leave summer swim alone. [/quote]

I agree with this sentiment, but oddly at our pool, the "most improved" always goes to an A meet swimmer. [b]It never goes to B meet swimmers, even the ones who drop huge amounts of time.[/b] I think it is only time dropped at A meets. So I understand where OP is coming from, because I think the award does make the B meet kids feel invisible at our banquet.[/quote]

This is just plain wrong. I can see it going to a B meet swimmer who works hard, drops a lot of time and makes A meets.  But this is the one award that B meet swimmers can get - it shouldn't go to a kid who swims A meets on a regular basis just because they dropped time.  [/quote]

This is also an NVSL issue.  A lot of coaches are paid to seed and win A meets.  Because of that, there are issues with them not even knowing/caring about the B meet kids.  We are fighting that culture with the coaches, but it is terrible.[/quote]

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