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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 Big difference between year round swimmers who participate in mentoring or coaching other kids, participating in team events like pep rallies and might not swim a lot but are otherwise engaged with the team versus... kids who don't do any of that and just do the Saturday A meets.

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Maybe, but I got to say, as the parent of an 18 year old coach who practices exclusively with summer club but is obviously very involved with summer team as a junior coach. Should she not swim at the A meets?  This arbitrary judgment some of you want to apply to decide who is a "good enough summer team member is absurd."  it's "competitive swimming," the fastest swimmers will swim the A meets.  It's pretty simple. This is not a "trophy for trying" situation.  Furthermore, you may not see the whole picture if you have not known these kids for years. Things change over time, their interests change, they get jobs, take driver's ed, take summer school, go to sleep away camp, become camp counselors. I don't see any reason to "kick them off the island" when this stuff happens. The summer team community is important to many of them, even if they just dabble in and out for a few years and don't want to give it up because the memories are important.  So what???  They aren't taking anything from your kids that they haven't earned by being faster. Being faster is the criteria for swimming at A meets.  I don't think you'll find many pools that use another criteria, but feel free to create your own club that assigns lanes based on practice attendance. (I'm not sure enough parents would agree with you to form a team, but maybe there are like-minded folks out there).[/quote]

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