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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg, they probably are trying to fill their team and is this the only way they can. 
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All fair, and perhaps NVSL should put an equitable process in place for exactly those circumstances. [/quote]

That sounds complicated and would open up a can of worms.[/quote

It really shouldn’t though. The ability to use swim team only memberships should be limited to those pools who otherwise can’t fill lanes at an A meets. Establish a threshold for roster size and all pools who can’t meet the minimum roster size are able to use swim team only members. [/quote]

Except that teams that want to cheat will cheat if given any wiggle room. All of a sudden there’s now tryouts and little Larla with her legal but slow 50 free “isn’t ready” for the team. Better fill that spot instead with a year round phenom…[/quote]

I can think of 3 Division 1 teams that would be all over this!  Overlee is always crying about not having 8 and under swimmers on their roster of well over 200 swimmers. 
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Honestly a LOT of teams could benefit from this. There are many teams, even in the top 1/3 divisions that are struggling with 8 and under swimmers, especially boys. [/quote]

They are not having trouble filling the 8 and under lanes.  They may struggle to find legal 8 and under swimmers or fast 8 and under swimmers but the lanes are not empty. [/quote]

Not ture. we were at a few meet where there were a lot of empty lanes for 8 and under boys. and no team is going to throw a kid into fly that is not even close to legal. It would just embarrass the kid. [/quote]

Our pool does that every summer. Repeatedly. We've had kids want to quit swim team because they've never swum fly in their life and our (idiot) head coach put them in and told them to just swim free.[/quote]

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