At what age did your kid quit/finish summer swim team?

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I also find that "giving up" June and July for swim takes overnight camps off the table by an large, because most of them have limited August sessions. My kids would choose a few weeks of sleepaway over swim team any time.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

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We lose them around 13-14. They start getting jobs or want to go to the beach/lake with friends and doing fun stuff. Swim hampers that.

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We have some crazy parents on our team that would kill their kid if they dropped. They care more than the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:We have some crazy parents on our team that would kill their kid if they dropped. They care more than the kids.

Maybe that's what happened to little Johnny ..

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

MCSL does this. We are in a league that does 25s for the 10 and under groups (with the exception of the 50 free for the 9-10 group) and all 50s for the 11 and over groups (with the exception of the 100 free and 100 IM for those groups) and by the 11-12 age group the club kids are always the top swimmers.

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Op here. We are in mcsl, one of the middle divisions. Yes a lot of the club swimmers dominate, but thankfully even the non club swimmers still have fun and plenty make it into A meets. I'm glad we aren't in a top division, to be honest!

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Anonymous wrote:I also find that "giving up" June and July for swim takes overnight camps off the table by an large, because most of them have limited August sessions. My kids would choose a few weeks of sleepaway over swim team any time.

This. I have a year round swimmer and a summer only swimmer and the summer only swimmer stopped summer swim team because there were other things she enjoyed more (sleepaway camp, dance classes) than committing 2 months to summer swim team. My year round swimmer will not do sleepaway camps because she doesn’t want to miss any part of summer/long course swim season.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

My kids are in NVSL too, and your kids are not typical.

You know that the year round swimmers have a massive advantage even in 50s, even if they are athletes. One of my daughters went to the state championship in her chosen sport but may or may not make any A meets this year in our mid-division team. She still does swim team to hang with friends and as a fun activity, but she has no chance against the year round swimmers.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

My kids are in NVSL too, and your kids are not typical.

You know that the year round swimmers have a massive advantage even in 50s, even if they are athletes. One of my daughters went to the state championship in her chosen sport but may or may not make any A meets this year in our mid-division team. She still does swim team to hang with friends and as a fun activity, but she has no chance against the year round swimmers.

I think it depends on the sport. But our runners/track kids tend to catch up once they start swimming because their cardio is great. My kids are club swimmers but 50s are short sprints. Advantages are to those that are taller.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

My kids are in NVSL too, and your kids are not typical.

You know that the year round swimmers have a massive advantage even in 50s, even if they are athletes. One of my daughters went to the state championship in her chosen sport but may or may not make any A meets this year in our mid-division team. She still does swim team to hang with friends and as a fun activity, but she has no chance against the year round swimmers.

I think it depends on the sport. But our runners/track kids tend to catch up once they start swimming because their cardio is great. My kids are club swimmers but 50s are short sprints. Advantages are to those that are taller.

Lax/basketball for my kid, they've never had trouble making every A meet by midway through the season at the latest. They start off down the ladder because they haven't swum for months when time trials occur and are still missing swim practice for other sports, but once swim shits to morning, the catch up fast

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Kid is 17y and will go through graduation (has been on since he was 9.) He wanted to drop out at 13/14, but we insisted he stick it out and it worked in our favor (he rediscovered his love of swimming and ended up joining a club team and the HS swim team.) It also helps that parents of his peers did the same thing so he still has several friends on the team. We actually have a decent size 15y-18y cohort of kids (16/60 swimmers.) We are actually having a difficult time recruiting young kids right now.

It helps that the coach is pretty forgiving with practices (PM practices, but several kids work and just come to practice when they can.) .

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

My kids are in NVSL too, and your kids are not typical.

You know that the year round swimmers have a massive advantage even in 50s, even if they are athletes. One of my daughters went to the state championship in her chosen sport but may or may not make any A meets this year in our mid-division team. She still does swim team to hang with friends and as a fun activity, but she has no chance against the year round swimmers.

I think it depends on the sport. But our runners/track kids tend to catch up once they start swimming because their cardio is great. My kids are club swimmers but 50s are short sprints. Advantages are to those that are taller.

Lax/basketball for my kid, they've never had trouble making every A meet by midway through the season at the latest. They start off down the ladder because they haven't swum for months when time trials occur and are still missing swim practice for other sports, but once swim shits to morning, the catch up fast

We have two boys in the 15-18 now that do this every year. They are incredible all around athletes and it just takes them a few weeks. We have a kid who swims club double practices and always jokes about how quick they catch up to him and how it drives him crazy. If they were swimming 100s the other boys would not have a chance, but with 50s it can be done.

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Anonymous wrote:Team rep here. We see a big drop off when they hit the 13-14 age group.

I assume it's because they're not making the HS teams.

I also think at that age kids start to specialize in other sports. I also think that if a kid isn't making A meets when they are 15+ then they don't want to bother with the morning practices just to swim at B meets.

My oldest loves swimming and swims year round. I imagine he will be in it for the long haul. Not sure what will happen with my youngest.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop by 15-18 because all races are 100yd, except for fly. Which is tough if your kid is not a year round swimmer.

What league does this? NVSL is all 50s so there is not much advantage for year round swimmers compared to those that do not. It is funny watching my athletes that do not swim surpass their club swimming teammates after week two.

My kids are in NVSL too, and your kids are not typical.

You know that the year round swimmers have a massive advantage even in 50s, even if they are athletes. One of my daughters went to the state championship in her chosen sport but may or may not make any A meets this year in our mid-division team. She still does swim team to hang with friends and as a fun activity, but she has no chance against the year round swimmers.

I think it depends on the sport. But our runners/track kids tend to catch up once they start swimming because their cardio is great. My kids are club swimmers but 50s are short sprints. Advantages are to those that are taller.

Lax/basketball for my kid, they've never had trouble making every A meet by midway through the season at the latest. They start off down the ladder because they haven't swum for months when time trials occur and are still missing swim practice for other sports, but once swim shits to morning, the catch up fast

We have two boys in the 15-18 now that do this every year. They are incredible all around athletes and it just takes them a few weeks. We have a kid who swims club double practices and always jokes about how quick they catch up to him and how it drives him crazy. If they were swimming 100s the other boys would not have a chance, but with 50s it can be done.

I think hundreds would make it easier for DD because part of what makes her a really good athlete is strength and great cardio. The first 'stroke' that she gets to the top of the ladder in is always IM.