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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s like tennis.  There may technically be a tennis team, and sometimes they play in doubles, and they practice together, but they don’t need the team in order to function as a competitive tennis player.  It’s not the same as soccer, football, basketball, lacrosse, etc., where you need to play with a team to play the sport at all.[/quote]

In swimming, your individual scores add up to a win/lose for the team you're on.  Yes, you get your own individual times, too, but it's the collective performance of everyone on the team that amounts to a win.

There are gifted athletes on Football teams that might be real standouts - maybe they run in the most touchdowns in a game.  But they will not win the game all by themselves.[/quote]

No, because they can't PLAY the game by themselves. unlike swimmers. If you want to include relays, fine, but they are always individual swimmers first and relayers second.

At the end of the day though? Call it whatever you want, no one will care. Your child may swim for life, because they can, its not a team sport. My kid, if they want to play soccer for life, will have to join a team to do so. Different. (and I use my kid theoretically as my kids swim)[/quote]

It's not "if you want to include relays," nimrod. Swim meets are scored by a set series of events, which ALWAYS include relays. You can't decide to have, say, a sanctioned high school sectional with just individual events. [/quote]

When you find yourself calling people names over extremely trivial disagreements about kids’ sports it might be time for a bit of introspection. [/quote]

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