Summer swim absurd age rules

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

Okay. You can think what you want, but it’s embarrassing to rave on and on about your 11 year old who broke a 9-10 record. Any over the top bragging on social media is 100% classless but this really takes the cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

Okay. You can think what you want, but it’s embarrassing to rave on and on about your 11 year old who broke a 9-10 record. Any over the top bragging on social media is 100% classless but this really takes the cake.

It’s not thinking what I want. It’s the rules and criteria as set forth by the league. You should stop begrudging a girl and her mother their proud moment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

Okay. You can think what you want, but it’s embarrassing to rave on and on about your 11 year old who broke a 9-10 record. Any over the top bragging on social media is 100% classless but this really takes the cake.

It’s not thinking what I want. It’s the rules and criteria as set forth by the league. You should stop begrudging a girl and her mother their proud moment.

Found the obnoxious social media braggart.
If you do this, people think poorly of you.

[Anonymous]

Hilarious. It is summer swim. My 11 year old broke three 11-12 pool records this season. And no, he’s not actually 12, he’s not even 11.5. I would never dream of posting about it on social media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

+1. Do you really think being a few weeks older than another kid who you’d consider “legitimately” in the age category makes much difference? My own kid with a June birthday has a slight advantage but that means he makes A meets not that he wins them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hilarious. It is summer swim. My 11 year old broke three 11-12 pool records this season. And no, he’s not actually 12, he’s not even 11.5. I would never dream of posting about it on social media.

Why not? It’s sobering to be proud about and some of us use social media to keep in touch with friends and family who live far away. Breaking decades old pool records are big deals and I’d definitely share if my kid achieved that. Don’t worry though, not much chance of that happening!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hilarious. It is summer swim. My 11 year old broke three 11-12 pool records this season. And no, he’s not actually 12, he’s not even 11.5. I would never dream of posting about it on social media.

If your 11 year old broke a record - it’s likely it wasn’t a hard record to break. At many pools, the difference in a record is 2+ seconds. We see this in meet sheets all the time. My nephew broke a 13/14 record this past summer at his pool but at our pool he would have needed to have been almost 2.5 seconds faster to break it. I only say this because you seemed to emphasize his age. At our pool, I think almost every record is held by a summer birthday kid.

[Anonymous]

would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

+1. Do you really think being a few weeks older than another kid who you’d consider “legitimately” in the age category makes much difference? My own kid with a June birthday has a slight advantage but that means he makes A meets not that he wins them.

The original records may have been set by kids who were actually older too. Should we go back and strip them all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?

Some people need things spelled out for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?

It would make people feel better if summer swim worked like year round swim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

Okay. You can think what you want, but it’s embarrassing to rave on and on about your 11 year old who broke a 9-10 record. Any over the top bragging on social media is 100% classless but this really takes the cake.

Do you say the same of parents of red-shirted kids? "It's embarrassing to rave on and on about your 18.5-year-old who graduated from high school and won the prize for English. 100% classless."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?

It would make people feel better if summer swim worked like year round swim.

It kind of does. If you go to a three day meet, it is only your age at the beginning of the meet that matters. Consider summer swim a 6 week long meet. Do you think a kid grows dramatically during 6 weeks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?

It would make people feel better if summer swim worked like year round swim.

Given the extremely short season, that makes no sense and would be a headache for coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the rules and think they should stay as they are, but if you have a summer birthday kid who dominates, just stay low key about it. There is a girl at our pool with a June birthday who is a good swimmer but her mom is super over the top in FB posts about the girl breaking pool records and winning on her older years. She did it when the the was 8 (actually 9) and now she’s doing it again now that she is 10 (but actually 11). Obnoxious in any case, but in the the particular circumstances it’s downright embarrassing.

You sound bitter. The girl won those records legitimately under the same rules that all other swimmers have for the past 10+ years. Just because the age groups are misnomers doesn’t take away her accomplishments. The mother has every right to be proud. If a child at the top of the baseball age range sets records for home runs or pitching strikeouts no one would say a thing.

Okay. You can think what you want, but it’s embarrassing to rave on and on about your 11 year old who broke a 9-10 record. Any over the top bragging on social media is 100% classless but this really takes the cake.

Do you say the same of parents of red-shirted kids? "It's embarrassing to rave on and on about your 18.5-year-old who graduated from high school and won the prize for English. 100% classless."

DP: 18.5-year old graduates are not red-shirted kids. The "5 by Sept 30" cut off means students start turning 18 on Oct 1 of 12th grade depending on the cut off date (9/1 or 9/30).