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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg, they probably are trying to fill their team and is this the only way they can. 
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All fair, and perhaps NVSL should put an equitable process in place for exactly those circumstances. [/quote]

That sounds complicated and would open up a can of worms.[/quote

It really shouldn’t though. The ability to use swim team only memberships should be limited to those pools who otherwise can’t fill lanes at an A meets. Establish a threshold for roster size and all pools who can’t meet the minimum roster size are able to use swim team only members. [/quote]

Except that teams that want to cheat will cheat if given any wiggle room. All of a sudden there’s now tryouts and little Larla with her legal but slow 50 free “isn’t ready” for the team. Better fill that spot instead with a year round phenom…[/quote]

I can think of 3 Division 1 teams that would be all over this!  Overlee is always crying about not having 8 and under swimmers on their roster of well over 200 swimmers. 
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Honestly a LOT of teams could benefit from this. There are many teams, even in the top 1/3 divisions that are struggling with 8 and under swimmers, especially boys. [/quote]

They are not having trouble filling the 8 and under lanes.  They may struggle to find legal 8 and under swimmers or fast 8 and under swimmers but the lanes are not empty. [/quote]

Not ture. we were at a few meet where there were a lot of empty lanes for 8 and under boys. and no team is going to throw a kid into fly that is not even close to legal. It would just embarrass the kid. [/quote]

There is no D1 pool that has fewer than six 8 and under boys.  Agree that they may not be legal in fly but that’s not an empty lane space issue and literally proves that these pools would use this as a guise to recruit fast kids.[/quote]
Yeah, this rule would have to be tied specifically to the number of kids on the roster, not the number of kids you think are legal/fast enough for an A meet. It can’t be an excuse to cherry pick swimmers for a certain gender or age group. This should only be available to teams that cannot scrape together enough swimmers on their roster to fill lanes, regardless of ability.[/quote]

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