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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the team has an empty lane and the 4 year old can swim it, sure. Why not?[/quote]

Not unless the 4yo can finish at roughly the same times as everyone else.[/quote]

We have older swimmers that don’t finish roughly the same time as everyone else. To fill lanes we swim up swimmers that are much slower. What’s the difference? [/quote]

4-hour B meets if it gets out of hand.[/quote]

Won’t make much difference in a A meet. It doesn’t happen enough to make a difference.

As far as finishing at roughly the same time, it’s not unusual for that to not happen. If we swim an 8 or 9 year old up in a 13-14 event for example, or even a 15-18 event, there is a good sized difference in finishing times. [/quote]

Why would you swim an 8-9 up that high?  If they're that stupendously good, they should be traveling to meets elsewhere in the country at that time of year.  If it's just to fill lanes at an A meet, your summer team has a spirit/recruitment problem or your pool is too small to field a summer team and should pair.[/quote]

They swim up because the other team might DQ or might not be able to fill all of their lanes. I’ve seen quite a few teams do that if they have empty lanes.

Our team has about 90 swimmers, not counting the mini group. [/quote]

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