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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teams that are 95 kids? How the heck does that work for practices? How lanes does your HS team get?[/quote]

Not enough to have 95 kids in the water at once, that's for sure. I think four.[/quote]

Some of the 95 are dive and the club swimmers only go once a week so it should be fine. [/quote]

Is this Woodson with 95 on the roster?! How does it work if a freshman is faster than a senior -- do they swim the freshman?[/quote]
In general, yes. Swimming is a timed sport. They aren’t going to sit a faster kid just because they are a freshman and need to pay their dues. We have a fast freshman club swimmer on our team who is displacing a senior from relays, she’s just faster, it is what it is. There is some strategy though in terms of what events each kid should swim to maximize points. [/quote]

I've seen this happen in club swim and summer swim as well.  Some kids are very fast in their individual events (e.g., 50y/m, 100y/m), but in relays those same swimmers can choke and swim slower.  The opposite is also true, namely, some kids swim slower in individual events but swim much faster in relays because they don't want to let their team members down.  The coaches know who is fast individually and who is fast in relays, and group the relay teams accordingly.  Unfortunately, many parents don't understand this distinction and think that their kid should be in the relay because they're fast individually (even where their kid knows the truth and isn't bothered by sitting out the relay team).  Swimming is often characterized as an individual sport ("just you and the black line beneath you, back and forth, flip turn to flip turn to flip turn to rest" - Michael Phelps.  But relays [b]ARE[/b] a team sport.

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