Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

From our coach

Districts: Based on times from the season coaches slate 4 athletes for each individual event and 1 relay for each event.

Regionals:
1) Place in the top 8 at the district meet
2) Get a qualifying time during the season

States:
1) Place in the top 5 (individual) and top 4 (relays) at the regional meet
2) Get a qualifying time during the seaso

Most of this is a regional AD decision and will be different in different regions. The ONLY VHSL (from the VHSL handbook) rules are as follows, everything else is decided by the ADs in the region:

If you finish in the 1-8 of individual events at regionals, you make states.
If a relay team finishes 1-4 at regionals, you make states.
If the regional meet director (i.e. hosting schools AD) certifies a states cut time swam during the season, you make states. This one is a BIG BIG IF because the regional ADs can decide whatever they want here. Most regions will certify dual meet times, but other will only do it at districts, others will only certify times swam at regionals, or something else. IT DEPENDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Club swimmers routinely miss a HS meet or 2 because of conflicts with club meets.

Growing up not in the DMV, HS dual meets were almost always in the middle of the week not on Friday/Saturday.

Unfortunately, here they are often on Friday/Saturday. I don’t think there is a single meet that we have on any day other than Friday/Saturday.

Yep, that is the unfortunate state of affairs with pool capacity limits in the broader area.

One thing i dont understand is why can't FCPS and FCPA close the pools earlier on Saturday for those dual meets? Apart from my PVS meets, morning club practices, and FCPA swim classes in the morning, can they really not cloes the pool earlier at 2pm? 8pm start time for swim and ending at nearly 10pm. ugh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Club swimmers routinely miss a HS meet or 2 because of conflicts with club meets.

Growing up not in the DMV, HS dual meets were almost always in the middle of the week not on Friday/Saturday.

Unfortunately, here they are often on Friday/Saturday. I don’t think there is a single meet that we have on any day other than Friday/Saturday.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Club swimmers routinely miss a HS meet or 2 because of conflicts with club meets.

Growing up not in the DMV, HS dual meets were almost always in the middle of the week not on Friday/Saturday.

Anonymous wrote:Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Club swimmers routinely miss a HS meet or 2 because of conflicts with club meets.

Anonymous wrote:Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Right or wrong, it’s very common for Northern Virginia swimmers at least to prioritize their big winter club meet over the conflicting high school meet (i.e., many FCPS kids miss a high school meet to swim Winter Classic or KLI). I’ve never heard of a HS coach pushing back on this, not to say it doesn’t happen. Because most high school meet times don’t count toward USA Swimming, kids want those big prelims/finals opportunities to get cuts, drop time in the context of recruiting etc. It’s an imperfect system, but it’s the norm for a lot of kids.

Anonymous wrote:Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Most of the fast kids miss a week for club swimming December champs. That can be one or two meets depending on the schedule. Then illness can happen.

Why would you miss any high school meets if you chose to swim on the high school team?

\High school sports are supposed to be prioritized over everything other than religious obligations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

If you don't swim in Districts (individual) you cannot swim in Regionals (individual) but can still swim in Regionals for a relay team.

That is a team-by-team decision and not a VHSL rule. For my kid's school, four dual meets minimum to participate in any post season.

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

If you don't swim in Districts (individual) you cannot swim in Regionals (individual) but can still swim in Regionals for a relay team.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

From our coach

Districts: Based on times from the season coaches slate 4 athletes for each individual event and 1 relay for each event.

Regionals:
1) Place in the top 8 at the district meet
2) Get a qualifying time during the season

States:
1) Place in the top 5 (individual) and top 4 (relays) at the regional meet
2) Get a qualifying time during the seaso

Is there a change this year in qualifying for regionals? Used to be T10 in each event at Districts qualified for Regionals. T8 only is a change and would make the B final irrelevant.

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

From our coach

Districts: Based on times from the season coaches slate 4 athletes for each individual event and 1 relay for each event.

Regionals:
1) Place in the top 8 at the district meet
2) Get a qualifying time during the season

States:
1) Place in the top 5 (individual) and top 4 (relays) at the regional meet
2) Get a qualifying time during the seaso

Anonymous wrote:

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

As with most answers that seems to be team specific. But you have to have qualifying times for Regionals and States, but not sure about Districts, I think that's purely based on your team.

Are there any rules about how many meets you can miss to still be eligible for Districts/Regionals/States? Or is there no such rule?

sounds insane