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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the issue is that there needs to be a way to encourage summer only swimmers.  If they can't ever get into the A meets because of the year round swimmers, the incentive is gone.  That's why low key, small pools are fun because everyone has a chance to get into A meets.  It's a doable thing.  [/quote]

Some “year round swimmers” are only year round because they swim once a week with a program offered by… their summer swim team.

Even if you were to bar year round swimmers from A meets, there would be kids who still don’t make A meets. What about them? If only everyone had a chance to swim at meets. Maybe teams could add a second meet every week and call it a B meet. That seems fair.[/quote]
Lol, I don’t understand what people want, they have structured it so that the non year round kids can still compete and generally will be competing against other non year round kids. Apparently that is not good enough, they want Larlo to be in the meet for the faster swimmers, even though he is not fast? [/quote]

Larlo is going to be crying at the end of his race, because he got beaten by the winter team kids so badly.

This isn't a situation where you can be "fair."  Kids who swim year round are going to be stronger and faster.  It develops pretty quickly by age 10 or so.  You can't even than playing field because the summer only kids don't have the training.  If it bothers you, then don't swim.  Swimming is a very technical sport and it's a year round sport.

Or you can find one of the less competitive smaller pools and swim there. Whatever.

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