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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to explain this to my kid about supposedly "individual" sports with metrics like swimming.  [b][i]Swam faster than her friend all summer on the rec team, but her friend made the team and DD didn't, her friends paid for private lessons with the facility staff. [/i][/b] I think politics and what not manifest themselves differently in each sport.  For example, some sports need big teams to run practices, but you'll never get playing time.  So often times team sports are actually pretty inclusive however the treatment on the team can vary drastically, from being on the scout team they let their stars beat up on all practice, like Soccer or Football.  For the individual sports you still have to practice as a team, and the kinds of reps they do in practice can greatly impact who improves the fastest.[/quote]

I call BS on this.  Swimming is based on individual result time at the tryouts, and all results are recorded.  Coaches just can't put a slower swimmer on the team and leave a faster swimmer off the team based on the result of the tryouts.  It just does NOT happen, unless the school itself wants to invite lawsuits from parents.  [/quote]

First, lawsuits aren't free and [b][i]maybe 1% of parents would be willing to hire a lawyer and pursue that route[/i][/b].

Second, PP said their kid swam faster on the summer rec team.  If a coach wants to be a d**k, then it's easy to write down tryout times showing the other kid is faster.

Third, if both swimmers in the scheme of things are just average/below-average contributors to the team, nobody cares enough.[/quote]

I guess you must be poor don't live in McLean and Potomac.  People in those areas are rich and they are also lawyers.

"[b]If a coach wants to be a d**k, then it's easy to write down tryout times showing the other kid is faster[/b]".

Try to do that at Langley or McLean and see how it will work out for the coach(es).
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We had a parent that did team stats for my travel team as a kid. The dad would always give his daughter credit for my assists--sometimes even goals if it was a big win.

It was crazy, but also laughable[/quote]

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