There's a trend in this state (Rhode Island) that disappoints me. From time to time, in certain meets, they will do away with the 500 freestyle. And (when my daughter was on the HS team) I personally witnessed that it's sometimes because the coaches can't entice anyone to swim it. Lame! Sometimes it's because the team is so small that they don't have enough swimmers. OK...maybe! First, if I were the coach, and I have plenty of swimmers on my team, I pick a kid and tell him/her to get up on the blocks and swim the race!!! But...if the rules are going to be bent by not conducting an event...when a team is truly shorthanded...why not bend the rules differently? Instead of scratching an event, let certain swimmers compete in an extra event so that ALL the scheduled events can be competed?
Dan
Can't speak for anything other than high school but in NJ high school swimming our rules are the same as you mention. 4 events, no more than 2 individual. Can't speak
We could swim only 2 events (which included relays) when I swam for Westfield in the 60's. Imagine the points we could have scored had we been able to swim 2 events and 2 relays!
Can't speak for anything other than high school but in NJ high school swimming our rules are the same as you mention. 4 events, no more than 2 individual. Can't speak
We could swim only 2 events (which included relays) when I swam for Westfield in the 60's. Imagine the points we could have scored had we been able to swim 2 events and 2 relays!
