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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the parents who think the kids should be able to miss multiple high school meets for club conflicts, how many meets would you say is okay to skip?  Would it be fine if the top swimmers just showed up at metros?  At what point do you say, yeah my kid is basically a ringer and not part of the team?[/quote]
Let’s call a spade a spade, all of the top club kids are ringers for their HS teams. They attend maybe 1 practice a week and show up for meets when they don’t conflict with club meets.[/quote]

Of course they are ringers.  They are paying for good quality coaching and tons of lane time.  High School coaches for the most part are not great.  It is a low paying part time job and they tend to be disorganized, have limited lane space (with WAY too many swimmers per lane), and finite resources.

If high school swim didn't allow the "ringers" meets would look very different.  Let's be honest most of the good high school athletes are not playing the sport for the first time, they belong to club teams, travel teams, etc, the difference is that soccer, football, etc have to practice with one another because they have to be a TEAM.  Swim, you get in and do your thing.  Practice the relay teams a bit and you are good to go.[/quote]

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