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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this matter?
 
The only difference between A and B is when the meet is. You swim your race and get a time.

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One important difference is that B meets oroduce times that coaches can use to arrange A meet rosters - but those B times aren't official for things like All Stars.  The atmospheres and experiences at the two meet types are also different.  Both can be very fun and very supportive of the kids, but they are distinct from one another.  Different times of day, too.[/quote]

Only divisionals count for all stars and teams choose their divisional swimmers [/quote]

Majority of kids don’t go to all stars as it’s not just kids at your pool but the league. [/quote]

Every kid swimming all stars has a divisional time because only divisional times count for all stars and teams choose their own divisional rosters. Theoretically, a kid could swim 1 B meet and make divisional (unless the team itself has a rule barring it) and then swim all stars [/quote]

NVSL requires that the swimmers at Divisionals have an A meet time (not necessarily in the stroke, but any stroke).  Not getting picked for A meets can definitely hold a would-be all-star back.

It did for our kid one year—kid had all star times in one stroke but never really got to race it at A meets, and didn’t want to pick it at Divisionals (our team lets kids pick strokes based on priority position on the ladder ) because they hadn’t been racing it all season.

It was weird that the coach didn’t pick them for A meets in that stroke, but we were so used to not questioning anything and had a lot of stuff going on at home that year.  Making all-stars is a big deal for young swimmers and a slower swimmer from our team made it, which bugged our kid a lot. Obviously we should have paid more attention—it made me really look more closely in subsequent years.[/quote]

My now 11 year old for sure went to divisionals for fly at age 7 without ever swimming in an A meet. He had a fast time at the last B meet before the season ended. Idk if under 8 has special rules where sometimes teams can’t even field two legal swimmers. [/quote]

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