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Anonymous wrote:Our team doesn't let you swim an event at a B meet if you swam it in an A meet. They will give you an exception if you're in danger of losing your spot the following week.

B Meets are fun for the faster swimmers because they get to swim against neighboring pools (read: friends) that are in different divisions.

We only give out B meet ribbons for 10 & under. None of the older kids ever pick up their B meet ribbons.

Finally, our team would not be able to run a B meet if none of the A meet families swam/attended the meet. There aren't enough people there to time, officiate, run sheets, automate and sell concessions! If you ban A meet swimmers entirely, the B meet swimmers would be responsible for all of it. Plus there would be about 40 swimmers , compared to 128 kids on the other team.

Yes, our B Meet league (Springfield-Burke) runs B meets just like A meets (seeding, heat sheets, etc). This means officials in white and blue, and all of our officials are A meet (and most are club) parents.

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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?

This implies that there is a static A and B team. In NVSL, there isn’t. A meets are seeded based on the latest and greatest times and you’ll have kids in and out of A meets each week based on the revised ladder. In our B meet league, you can’t swim an event that you swam at the preceding A meet and any events you do swim are exhibition, but the times count. This way, the whole team has a decently fair shake each week to be seeded in the next A meet. The B meets are both developmental meets as well as a chance to earn a spot in the next A meet.

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?

Anonymous wrote:A meet kids would never get a time in other strokes if they weren’t allowed to swim B meets. My kid swims her least favorite strokes in A meets so B meets is how she qualifies for Divisionals.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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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:Our team doesn't let you swim an event at a B meet if you swam it in an A meet. They will give you an exception if you're in danger of losing your spot the following week.

B Meets are fun for the faster swimmers because they get to swim against neighboring pools (read: friends) that are in different divisions.

We only give out B meet ribbons for 10 & under. None of the older kids ever pick up their B meet ribbons.

Finally, our team would not be able to run a B meet if none of the A meet families swam/attended the meet. There aren't enough people there to time, officiate, run sheets, automate and sell concessions! If you ban A meet swimmers entirely, the B meet swimmers would be responsible for all of it. Plus there would be about 40 swimmers , compared to 128 kids on the other team.

Anonymous wrote:Our MCSL team does it more simply: everyone can have 2 events at the B meet. So everyone comes, and everyone cheers, and it's fun. Many of our A meet swimmers don't have 5-event programs, so they get those other strokes and races in at the B meet. The one thing I wish we did do at B meets is relays. That would be awesome. But I think we don't because of a) the potential time suck for the length of the meet itself, b) the difficulty in organizing who gets to swim a relay (because not everyone could, and the point of B meets is to top your own time, not compete against the other team - we don't score our B meets), and c) the related sense of hierarchy that relays could create - at the very meets that are supposed to _not_ be that way. How do other teams handle this?