How are Relays Determined?
Our team is a recreational summer league swim team, as opposed to a highly competitive year-round USA team. That being said, we aim to win and qualify as many of our swimmers for the Finals meet as possible.
- In general, relay teams are comprised of the fastest possible combination of swimmers based on official RMSL league seed times.
- If your swimmer wants to be considered for a relay, he or she should make sure to have a seed time in a 25m or 50m event of the stroke they want to swim in a relay.
- Seed times from other leagues are not used.
- For the Freestyle relay, the coaches use the seed times in the 25m or 50m freestyle event. The 4 fastest available swimmers become the “A” relay for the meet, the next 4 become the “B” relay and so on. The coaches will create as many relays as possible to give the maximum number of swimmers the opportunity to participate.
- For the medley relay, the coaches use the available seed times in each of the 4 strokes to create the fastest combination of swimmers. In order for a swimmer to participate in the medley relay, he or she needs to have legally completed the stroke in a previous meet. As with the free relay, the coaches will create as many relay teams as possible for each meet.
- For dual meets and for prelims, relays are created after individual entries are determined so that the coaches have confirmation of the available swimmers. If your child is on a relay team, it is very important that he or she participate in the meet. If your swimmer is asked to participate in a relay for prelims, it is preferred that he or she is also available for finals should the team qualify. In the rare instance where a swimmer is available for prelims and not for finals, coaches reserve the right to make a decision that is in the best interest of the team.
- Coaches have the ultimate say in who swims on which relay team, and they take multiple factors into consideration when determining relay teams.
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