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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For us it is the team reps' kid who isn't on the ladder because they aren't legal in the stroke. The kid of the team reps' friends who is way down on the ladder is also the one who swim up an age group.  Ugh.[/quote]
Did either of those kids take the place of a faster swimmer that was eligible and available to swim in those spots? [/quote]

Sure did.  [/quote]
You are saying there is a team where a kid was say the 5th best 11-12 swimmer in an event, and they got moved up to swim in the 13-14 event over 13-14 year olds who are faster than they are? Because that seems crazy and I don’t understand how you could get away with that. Or does the team have a dearth of 13-14 year olds, so the 5th best 11-12 is faster than any of the 13-14s?[/quote]
That’s what I was wondering also. [/quote]

There aren't many 13-14 boys on the team so they swim up a 11 year old in the 13-14 heats.  The 11 year old boy is close to the bottom of the ladder and there are many other 11-12 year olds who are faster who could have swum up instead of him.  For the 8and under girls, their daughter is not even on the ladder because she has never swum a legal fly.  Yet they throw her in an A meet to swim fly.  There are a number of 8 and unders who are legal who could have taken that spot. And there are a number of other 8 and unders who are not legal yet either but who are faster than she. If you're going to swim someone who is not legal, wouldn't you swim the one who is fastest?

NVSL[/quote]
These are the games our coach does not play (not NVSL). We have an elite 11-12 specialty stroke swimmer who is also faster than all of our 13-14s but our coach would never swim a kid up to displace an eligible kid in that age group even if it makes sense points wise. Are the 11-12 kids that are faster than the 11 year old being swum up still doing their max 2 events in the A meet? If so, it’s not something our coach would do, but I can see the rationale. Putting a swimmer in an event in an A meet despite never having put down a legal time in that event is crazy, although 8U fly is always a bit of a crapshoot. [/quote]

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