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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous]Patriot is fast compared to National.  It is hard when your kid in patriot won't make regionals even though they have a way way faster time than someone in National.   Happened to my kid all 4 years.   [/quote]

Ok - but there are regional cut times to help with this type of situation. [/quote]

My kid is in National and made her cut times. But even so, the kids in Patriot are fast.[/quote]

Again, ok. No one’s saying Patriot district isn’t fast.

The comment was trying to address the PP who was complaining that the Patriot district was so fast that their swimmer didn’t make regionals 4 years in row. My comment was only to say that the rules try to accommodate for those situations by having cut times. That’s all.

If the swimmers’s time was so fast, hopefully they were still able to complete in regionals via a time cut.[/quote]
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My kid has state cuts (and has in the past), but every year kids that swim for let’s say West Springfield or Falls Church, they can make even states with very slow times compared to the kids in the regionals. It’s not really fair. Same for regionals. We have seen kids who wouldn’t even be 16th at our district become top 3 at regionals.[/quote]

West Springfield is in the Patriot District?[/quote]

Yes.

I’m confused about the PP’s point.[/quote]

I think it goes to the fast kid who is not quite fast enough to make a regional cut.  If they are on a high school team with a deep bench they do not have the opportunity to get there because of the deep bench.  Meanwhile smaller schools in certain districts where they all pretty much do not have deep benches  will end up with slower kids in regionals.

Patriot district has a lot of good teams.  They have large high schools in more affluent areas and lots of club swimmers.  The exception to that is probably Alexandria City - no idea why they are stuck there.  The districts are lined up so the dual meets are competitive.  This all makes sense.  Swimmers do not do well if they are blowing the other teams out of the water or in the alternative being demoralized every week by being blown out for the water (see, used a water reference).

National district is okay but certainly not as strong as Patriot.  Some years they are, some years they are not.  They have less top swimmers overall.  Not TJ should probably be in Patriot district, they seem to be a bit of outlier.  But, I think they probably enjoy the superiority of being in the wrong district and destroying their competition.  Their fragile egos would not handle being in Patriot and middle of the pack there.[/quote]

I was confused as to why West Springfield was cited as an example of kids making states with slow times.[/quote]

Agreed. West Springfield is one of the stronger teams in the District. Their boys crushed and won their third consecutive title. [/quote]

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