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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our team doesn't send around a ladder. I do think that would be helpful. But I kind of get why they don't.. we have some competitive parents. [/quote]

We don’t send out the ladder and not all meet entries are based on the ladder.

If a kid has a good time but never shows up for practice, and I’m not talking about kid who swim club,  we won’t put them in.

[b]There are also times when the ladder can be wrong like a kid who gets a good time at a B meet, but should have had a DQ/isn’t really legal in a stroke. [/b]

Coaches also take 25 m splits for kids who swim 50s and use those to pick the relays. [/quote]

So [b]Johnny swam freestyle to get a fast time in breaststroke[/b] and no one noticed?  Yeah, right.  Most of the time the kids who aren't legal in a stroke are really slow simply because they haven't mastered the proper technique.  They aren't sniffing the top of the ladder except maybe on a team struggling to fill lanes.[/quote]

No, not that extreme, but we often have younger swimmers that get times who are not really legal. B meet officials are often not as experienced as A meet officials and often miss minor things that the coaches notice. We aren't a D1 team so our 8u ladder for kids who can swim breast and fly isn't a mile long so, yes these kids could get put in an A meet.  [/quote]

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