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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The above is true but it is very rare to swim faster at a Monday meet than a Saturday meet.  The Saturday meets tend to have better competition and a higher level of energy etc.

That being said the whole point of Saturday meets is that it is a team competition so if swimming your third best event helps get the team points then that is what you swim[/quote]

Of course.  But coaches and reps also need to be mindful of who is taking the L for the team and spread the pain around. Some races are easier wins than others.   It’s demoralizing for a kid to have to eat it consistently and watch slower swimmers rack up points in their best events while they fight for scraps in races they probably can’t win anything in. It definitely happens.  Keeping things transparent keeps coaches accountable.  I think sharing seed times should be mandatory for this reason.

It’s a lot to consider, and it’s not as simple as “fastest kids swim their fastest events”.  It doesn’t always work out that way.

Also, I often see kids drop mad time on Mondays so I don’t know that you’re right on your first point.[/quote]
I don’t agree about the demoralizing part. We are in a different league that allows the kids to swim more strokes at each meet, but this happened to my kid at the last meet and they just rolled with it. My kid is the fastest in all 4 strokes and IM at the low end of the age group, we swam against a team with another club kid that is a year older and who is legitimately elite. My kid came in second every time because they were matched up against the elite kid in all the same events. They took it as a challenge and swam multiple PBs because they rose to the level of the competition. One of my kid’s teammates swam the other events and got 1st place finishes because my kid and the elite kid weren’t in those events. Oh well, it happens. My kid didn’t give a second thought to it, they liked going head to head with the best kid.[/quote]

Not exactly the situation I’m talking about. Getting second is great when you’re racing in an event that you are number 1 in on your team.  Not being allowed to race in the event you’re number one in, so you can lose to the elite swimmer in your number 3 event is more like it. i won’t get into specifics because of privacy concerns but there ARE things that happen that are unfair.[/quote]

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