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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope our coaches make the lineup in a way that maximizes the number of kids who can swim. I have one kid who could swim any event at divisionals based on their ladder spots and one who is just outside the top spots. I am fine with my one kid not necessarily swimming one of their best or favorite events if it gives someone else a chance. For example, putting them in fly or breast instead of free. Likewise it would be nice if the top kids in my other child’s age group, who are in all star range for 3-4 events, swam a possibly less preferred stroke in order to allow my kid to have a spot in one event. [/quote]

I get where you are coming from but it is not fair for the coaches to do this and is a disadvantage to those top kids who have earned their ability to pick what they swim. [/quote]

This is NOT the way it should be done nor is it what Divisionals is about.[/quote]

Then what is divisionals about? Please enlighten me?

Divisionals is an individual competition both to try for a spot in all stars, but also to see where you land in your division. Why shouldn't a kid who has earned top times get to pick what they want to swim regardless of how it will impact others?

Now our coaches will sometimes entourage kids to swim something that isn't their favorite- ours did this last year because they knew a kid had a better chance of making IAS in one stroke over another. Or if all the kids in an weak age group will place low no matter what they swim they will have the kid legal in fly swim that over say free so another kid can swim and we don't don't lose a spot to another team due to an empty lane. [/quote]

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