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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is weird.  And people that are saying “[b]parents ask too many questions” are sus IM[/b]O.
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I agree. Circa 2018 we had different coaching staff that didn’t circulate a ladder or meet results and with a new 8U I had no idea that results for A meets were posted online. Therefore when my kid beat 35 other kids in freestyle at a B meet I had no idea they should swim in the next A meet. A couple years later I saw the results in historical data in the new app. They were seeded 3rd fastest in free and never got picked for an A meet.

Fortunately everything is transparent now.  [/quote]

That’s terrible.  [/quote]

And also fiction. Coaches want to win. They swim the fastest kid.[/quote]
This is one of my favorite things about swimming, the clock doesn’t lie and kids have a pure objective standard (times/champs cuts, etc.) they are working toward that isn’t impacted by whether Larla’s dad is the coach or Karla is the coach’s favorite.[b] Not being transparent about seed times and the swimmers’ placement on the ladder undercuts all that. [/quote][/b]

It sure does.  I think this will be the last season my kid puts up with it.  Better things for a teen to do with their summers than swimming events they will lose and watching slower kids lose in the events they could win. I’m not sure what it’s teaching them other than to blindly sacrifice time to a coach’s whims or uneducated hunches.

Either our coach is a moron and can’t do basic math (possible) or playing favorites (possible), or both (likely).  And people wonder why our team keeps losing!

Seed times should be included on the sheets, period.

Most parents won’t take the time look into the seeding until their kids are older and start asking questions, which happened to us.  Once we looked closely, it took the shine right off of summer swim at our pool.

Hiding the ball is par for the course with NVSL though.  Over it.

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