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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Being a B meet official can also be quite challenging.  Even the most experienced officials will miss a few minor infractions while trying to observe four lanes in poor lighting conditions.  And the benefit of the doubt always goes to the swimmer.[/quote]

Not faulting them, we get it. But our coaches also watch and know when a kid isn't really legal/their time doesn't really count [/quote]
A B meet official may miss a single flutter kick, but they aren't going to miss it if an 8u kid is flutter kicking to the extent it really affects their time.

Most kids are inconsistently legal before they're consistently legal.  Coaches are used to this for little ones and can take it into account in addition to times.  [/quote]

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