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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swim is the worst [/quote]

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mcsl is very strange.  A gazillion kids join their pool's team and then a few lucky ones get to swim in the meets?  Who, other than the ringers would bother doing this?  Why are the "A" meets so restrictive? While all the "commoners" go to a few pity meets.  We're in a different county and TG its not like that. Everyone competes at the actual meets.[/quote]

Are they really that restrictive?  There are usually 60-70 kids competing in an MCSL Saturday summer swim meet (60 kids are needed for freestyle alone bc there are two heats of each gender for every age group plus kids can only swim 3 events so it spreads swimming around).  And generally, lineups change each week so about 85 or more kids get to swim an A meet at our pool each summer.  That is a larger number than any other sport my kid has participated in other than road races. Certainly more than field sports.  How would meets work if more kids competed on Saturdays?  So you would have 3-4 heats of each event? Would you score the meet deeper?  Would that really feel better than dividing it up between two meets? I thought the MCSL set up was pretty standard in most leagues.

I would also suggest changing the culture around Wednesday meets at your pool.  I would never use the term “pity meets.”  Most kids at our pool really enjoy swimming in these meets because coach focuses on time drops, improvement, team spirit etc. Also, pep rallies, pasta dinners, social activities are open to everyone regardless of which meet they swim.  The other thing our pool does is allow the high schoolers to be coaches so those who aren’t swimming A meets often have responsibility for managing the youngest swimmers and they seem to really enjoy it and keep coming back each year. [/quote]

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