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Anonymous wrote:We are MCSL. You can swim in a B meet IF you are not swimming that event in an A meet. We love A meet swimmers who show up to B meets to cheer on the rest of their team trying very hard although it doesn't count for points. Our B meets are super fun for that reason.

Similar, from another MCSL team. You can swim in freestyle in a B meet if you swam it in an A meet but were not one of the top three finishers for our team. For other events, you cannot swim them in the B meet if you scored a point in the preceding A meet, so the only way you can swim the same events is if you finish last in your event. We often have kids who only swim A meets come and cheer at the B meets so ours are fun, too.

I'm glad we're not in NVSL. I think it's poor sportsmanship to allow a kid who scores points in an A meet event to swim that same event at a B meet.

You can't in NVSL either. But only top three swimmers score points in A meets, so 4th and 5th could race again in addition to 6th.

The NVSL doesn’t have rules that pertain to B meets. It’s up to the B meet league. For example, The Springfield-Burke league says if you swam the event on Saturday you can’t swim the same one Monday, but others say if you score points in the A you can’t swim it in the B. It varies.

Back to add that some don’t belong to a B meet league.

Anonymous wrote:NVSL- our team if they placed 1st-3rd in the A meet they can’t swim that stroke again in the following B meet.

Also some kids only swim one event at the A meet, so B meet is a chance for them to also get a time in other events.

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Anonymous wrote:We are MCSL. You can swim in a B meet IF you are not swimming that event in an A meet. We love A meet swimmers who show up to B meets to cheer on the rest of their team trying very hard although it doesn't count for points. Our B meets are super fun for that reason.

Similar, from another MCSL team. You can swim in freestyle in a B meet if you swam it in an A meet but were not one of the top three finishers for our team. For other events, you cannot swim them in the B meet if you scored a point in the preceding A meet, so the only way you can swim the same events is if you finish last in your event. We often have kids who only swim A meets come and cheer at the B meets so ours are fun, too.

I'm glad we're not in NVSL. I think it's poor sportsmanship to allow a kid who scores points in an A meet event to swim that same event at a B meet.

You can't in NVSL either. But only top three swimmers score points in A meets, so 4th and 5th could race again in addition to 6th.

The NVSL doesn’t have rules that pertain to B meets. It’s up to the B meet league. For example, The Springfield-Burke league says if you swam the event on Saturday you can’t swim the same one Monday, but others say if you score points in the A you can’t swim it in the B. It varies.

NVSL- our team if they placed 1st-3rd in the A meet they can’t swim that stroke again in the following B meet.

Our team lets the A meet kids swim the B meets, but if they were in the A meet for the event then they are noted as “Exhibition” and cannot place or get ribbons at the B meet. Seems like a good compromise.

The A meet kids are still racing each other at B meets to try to get the relay spot. Usually the top swimmer in each stroke gets the relay spot, so if two kids have close times in a stroke, then the B meet could change who gets the relay spot the following Saturday. That said, our pool won't let the A meet kids get a ribbon for the stroke at a B meet if they placed in that stroke at the previous A meet-- so they are only swimming for the time.

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Anonymous wrote:We are MCSL. You can swim in a B meet IF you are not swimming that event in an A meet. We love A meet swimmers who show up to B meets to cheer on the rest of their team trying very hard although it doesn't count for points. Our B meets are super fun for that reason.

Similar, from another MCSL team. You can swim in freestyle in a B meet if you swam it in an A meet but were not one of the top three finishers for our team. For other events, you cannot swim them in the B meet if you scored a point in the preceding A meet, so the only way you can swim the same events is if you finish last in your event. We often have kids who only swim A meets come and cheer at the B meets so ours are fun, too.

I'm glad we're not in NVSL. I think it's poor sportsmanship to allow a kid who scores points in an A meet event to swim that same event at a B meet.

You can't in NVSL either. But only top three swimmers score points in A meets, so 4th and 5th could race again in addition to 6th.

Anonymous wrote:We are MCSL. You can swim in a B meet IF you are not swimming that event in an A meet. We love A meet swimmers who show up to B meets to cheer on the rest of their team trying very hard although it doesn't count for points. Our B meets are super fun for that reason.

Similar, from another MCSL team. You can swim in freestyle in a B meet if you swam it in an A meet but were not one of the top three finishers for our team. For other events, you cannot swim them in the B meet if you scored a point in the preceding A meet, so the only way you can swim the same events is if you finish last in your event. We often have kids who only swim A meets come and cheer at the B meets so ours are fun, too.

I'm glad we're not in NVSL. I think it's poor sportsmanship to allow a kid who scores points in an A meet event to swim that same event at a B meet.

We are MCSL. You can swim in a B meet IF you are not swimming that event in an A meet. We love A meet swimmers who show up to B meets to cheer on the rest of their team trying very hard although it doesn't count for points. Our B meets are super fun for that reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is standard but at our pool the A meet swimmers can go to A meets and B meets. The B meet swimmers can only go to B meets. Shouldn’t the B meets be exclusively for kids who don’t place at A meets? There is a rule at our pool that if you placed in the weeks previous A meet you can’t swim that stroke only for that week but this seems silly, allowing these kids to dominate the developmental meets. Is this a standard rule?

Yes, that's typical. What's your definition of dominate? Races aren't scored. Everyone gets a participation ribbon. Some teams will seed the B-meet making it more competitive. Most of our A-meet swimmers who choose to swim B meets in the stroke they didn't score in are also looking to improve, including moving up the ladder to make divisional relays, etc. I do observe that for the 15 and over club swimmers, they sometimes they don't participate in the meet because they're busy, have to wake up the next morning for practice, or know swimming a 50 after last week isn't going to budge the needle. All of that said, there's a lot of reasons why your A meet reasons will do B meets.

The races are timed and the faster kids still reach the end of the pool earlier. Our pool also gives out ribbons to kids for maybe 1st through 6th place? 4th place?... which mean something to the B meet kids.

You did not get the memo. It's all one team and one big happy family filled with inclusivity and unicorns farting rainbows of summer fun. So we include everyone all the time. Except your kid doesn't get to swim on Saturdays but they can come stand and cheer so they are included.

Yes, because kids don't get to pick their strokes for the A meet, plus there's IM. My daughter had to swim breast for years because no one else could. Her only chance for fly was the B meets.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is standard but at our pool the A meet swimmers can go to A meets and B meets. The B meet swimmers can only go to B meets. Shouldn’t the B meets be exclusively for kids who don’t place at A meets? There is a rule at our pool that if you placed in the weeks previous A meet you can’t swim that stroke only for that week but this seems silly, allowing these kids to dominate the developmental meets. Is this a standard rule?

Yes, that's typical. What's your definition of dominate? Races aren't scored. Everyone gets a participation ribbon. Some teams will seed the B-meet making it more competitive. Most of our A-meet swimmers who choose to swim B meets in the stroke they didn't score in are also looking to improve, including moving up the ladder to make divisional relays, etc. I do observe that for the 15 and over club swimmers, they sometimes they don't participate in the meet because they're busy, have to wake up the next morning for practice, or know swimming a 50 after last week isn't going to budge the needle. All of that said, there's a lot of reasons why your A meet reasons will do B meets.

Yes, that's the way things work in NVSL.

Not sure if this is standard but at our pool the A meet swimmers can go to A meets and B meets. The B meet swimmers can only go to B meets. Shouldn’t the B meets be exclusively for kids who don’t place at A meets? There is a rule at our pool that if you placed in the weeks previous A meet you can’t swim that stroke only for that week but this seems silly, allowing these kids to dominate the developmental meets. Is this a standard rule?