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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so you know, this can also be an issue in HS swimming. If you aren't chosen by the coaches to swim your best events, then you never have a time for them. My daughters friend is good at the 50 free-- never swam it in a dual meet, so didn't get to go to districts/regionals, and isn't on the 4x50 free relay that will go to States...[/quote]

That does not make sense to me.  Is your daughter the fastest swimmer on the team?  The fastest swimmer gets to start.  The clock does not lie and coaches can not prevent your DD from starting if that is the case.[/quote]
+1, is your DDs friend faster at the 50 free than the other girls on her team? Or is she just good at the 50 free, and maybe if she had a chance to do it in a dual meet she could edge out one of the other girls? [/quote]

Club time is fast enough to edge out another girl. But she swam 200 IM all season. [b]She doesn't have a HS 50 free time other than try out day, which wasn't her best swim. You do not get to pick your own events in HS swim![/b][/quote]

So your DD didn't have her best time at tryout day, that's why she didn't get selected, perfectly legit to me.  If she had the fastest time on tryout day, the coach had no choice.  The clock does not lie.

Coaches can not pick someone with a slower time to start ahead of someone with a faster time.  The school invites a potential lawsuit if it does that.  And yes, you get to pick your own events in HS event if you're the fastest swimmer in all categories on your team, you have the option to decline certain events in order to focus on the one that you think will give you the best chance as long as you are the fastest swimmer on the team, all options are on the table.  FWIW, my DD is on the swim team in FCPS and she is the fastest swimmer on the team so the coach can not sit her, unless she takes herself out of an event.[/quote]

The point is that she IS one of the four fastest girls in 50 freestyle. The coaches did not select her to swim that event all season. She wasn't sitting there bench in dual meets, but wasn't good enough in the events she was selected to swim to make finals at districts and so didn't get to go to regionals. It's not as black and white as you'd like to portray- there is still Coach decision and, yes, potentially favoritism. [/quote]
HS swim is a quasi team sport. I’m guessing because your DD is a club swimmer they needed her more in events like the 200 IM than they did in the 50 free, which you don’t need to be a committed club swimmer to excel at. The 200 IM on the other hand, the average seasonal swimmer is generally not going to excel at that. [/quote]

Every kid on our HS team is a club swimmer. My DD's friend would have been interchangable with any number of swimmers for many different events. For whatever reason, she did not get noticed by coaches to swim the 50 free.[/quote]
Honestly you sound like an exhausting swim parent. She didn’t swim as well as the other girls at their time trials for the 50 Free, so they slotted her into other events. You are basically saying these coaches should have ignored the other girls’ faster HS 50 Free times and slotted your DD in to have another chance to post a better time. Maybe that would have been nice of them to do, but they are by no means out of bounds for not doing that. [/quote]

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