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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The result of this meet, at least as it pertains to public school teams, is complete happenstance. Everyone does understand that, right?  It's just the random distribution of big shot swimmers in a given year. They are all surely coached by club teams and its just random that they attend the school they attend. Right?

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I think coaching matters. Last year on paper BCC had the 3rd or 4th best girls team. They came within a handful of points of winning the whole meet. Stone Ridge was 100 pts better than any other team but barely squeaked by BCC. Coaching had a very big impact on getting those kids ready to compete and selecting the right relays. [/quote]

High school coaches are NOT the ones making a difference at Metros. It's who has the most/best club swimmers, especially sprinters (obviously this is the #1 factor by far) + luck of the match up (who happens to swim which two events at Metros) + bad luck (e.g., there was at least one big DQ for Stoneridge that I can remember last year that made the meet closer than it would have been otherwise). Stoneridge won 2 of 3 relays last year, so I don't think their coach somehow messed up on the relays as you seem to suggest. [/quote]

They had Sun, Gemmell, Webb, Tucker, Lefavre, and House. That should win all 3 relays easily.

If you had swapped coaches, I bet BCC scores 60-70 points less and SR scores 60-70 points more. One coach had their team. Ready to swim. One didn’t. [/quote]

Would love to know what the BCC coach would have done differently. In any event, Stoneridge won and would have won by 20+ more points but for a DQ in 500 free. If the BCC coach is so amazing, maybe they'll find a way to beat WJ this year. I really doubt that will happen...[/quote]

He beat WJ last year totally outgunned.

He got kids hyped up and ready to swim believing that they could achieve well beyond their personal bests. Kids who I would have pegged to go 16th to 24th at prelims ended up 8th-12th in many cases and it paid off big time.

Getting your team ready to swim and ready to swim as a team for each other and fight for every point is 80% of the battle in HS coaching [/quote]

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