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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree.  At our pool I have never seen a line up that didn’t have the fastest kids swimming events.[/quote]

The only time this doesn't happen is when you have an swimmer in a younger age group (usually the 8U) who is 100% legal in all strokes (and by association usually a very good freestyler) and they need that kid to swim all the other strokes to actually get points/places because there aren't enough other kids in the roster who are 100% legal.  Then because of MCSL 3 event max even though the kid might be one of the top 6 freestyle they won't swim that.  Beyond that, yes, 100% fastest kids.[/quote]

Hmmm.  We are in NVSL so we swim 2 events at A meets.  If you have a kid who is top 1-3 in all four events, sometimes they’ll move that kid around to swim their lower ranked events based on seed times from the other team.  It SHOULD be done to maximize team points, but it can lead to questions. This is why transparency is best—parents can see why their kid isn’t swimming in their best events, and coaches and reps have an incentive to stay honest.

For example: Larla swims to the top spots in free and back, but is second in breast and third in fly.  Her coach might put her in free and fly if the back  times from the other team are slow, and her fly time might score an extra point for the team.  It gets dicey if Larla’s time is close to her competition in back and she gets edged out of a relay or divisional slot because she didn’t get to swim it at that meet.

Basically, it’s best for coaches and reps to treat people like adults and not try to hide anything—they may have to explain things but that’s part of the job.[/quote]
These are the types of machinations I don’t have a problem with for summer swim since it’s a team competition based on points. If Larla’s individual back time was close but not better than the time needed for a relay or divisional slot, who is to say she would have lowered her time if she had swum it at one of the meets she didn’t swim it at. What should never happen though is some kid that is say 3rd on the ladder getting passed over not because they are needed to swim a different stroke but because the 4th kid is the rep’s kid.[/quote]

Sure, but if larla had the slot and then couldn’t defend it at the final meet before the relay or divisionals, that would really suck for her.

I’ve also seen a team rep’s kid get preferential treatment. At least everyone else can see it when the data is public.[/quote]

The final meet before the relay carnival or divisionals would typically be a B meet, so she would have the chance to "defend" her slot even if she didn't swim back at the A meet.[/quote]

Not this week! I didn’t have a swimmer in this situation but Monday times didn’t count for seeding the relays.  They had to get teams in before that.   Also, our last meet before divisionals is an A meet.[/quote]

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