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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 2946509, member: 38"] For years and years. But more presently, I have a daughter in the pool. She’s 14, but is near state cuts in NY in the 50-free....but she’s in a similar boat as you seem to be. She rarely swims the 50 in high school meets because the coach can put another swimmer there who might swim a second slower, but will still win. He uses his club swimmers pretty aggressively in the longer races because they’re almost always much faster and in better shape than the kids who just swim for a HS team. She she may have to swim a 200 free or 200 IM that isn’t really her strength because winning meets is the goal there. (He sometimes makes it up to them by letting them swim leadoff in a relay instead of anchor so they can take shots at cut times.) The kid doesn’t complain. That’s how the game works. When she goes back to her USA Swimming club, she can swim whatever she wants because those meets are all about cuts and A finals. [/QUOTE]