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But the younger  kid would swim in their own age group. I hate the idea of bumping a teenager to give their spot to a 12 year old.[/quote]

"You play to win the game! You don't just play to play"

Swim the faster swimmer. Period. If your kid doesn't get to swim tell them to get faster. It's a great life lesson to learn.[/quote]

My kid is the faster swimmer, and would absolutely hate being made to swim up. Her older teammates would be mad they didn't get to swim as much, and the same age teammates would be mad their relay got weaker. There are age groups for a reason![/quote]

Some teams teams swim up kids on relays to gain an advantage in Saturday meets too.  For example, a team with one really strong 11-12 swimmer might know going in that barring a DQ they will lose the 11-12 relay, but calculate that they might be close in the 13-14 relay with the addition of the strong 11-12 swimmer (who would in turn bump the weakest link on the 13-14 relay).  By swimming up that swimmer, the team improves their chances of winning one of those relays which is a favorable outcome relative to not giving yourself the best chance and losing both events.  It's a team competition after all, so there's no need to hold "spots" for slower swimmers only to weaken the team's chances of winning.

In the individual events, it only makes sense to swim up a swimmer who might "bump" someone else when that swimmer is likely to win their own age group by a wide enough margin to be competitive in the older age group and someone else in the lower age group can still earn the points the strongest swimmer would have scored.  Again, if it helps the team score more points, I see no problem with it.  If older kids don't like it, they should swim faster than the kids who are coming up to take their place in the older age groups anyway.  (By 15-18, kids who were separated into 11-12 and 13-14 are all in the same age group.)[/quote]

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