Best swim team

[Anonymous]

Thank you crazy IMX poster for making me laugh, again, at your idiocy. IMX is not a thing once you are past age 12, and really not a focus before age 12. But thanks for the laugh.

Find a club that is convenient and that your child likes. Let them play as many sports as they would like until HS. A lot of the coaches my D1 swimmer spoke with definitely were looking for good athletic ability in addition to National cut times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most D1 scholarship athletes did not start year round swimming until late elementary and intense daily practice until high school. Pay attention to PP that said this is a long game. It’s better to be an average swimmer when you are younger and peak in high school/ college. There is a lot of burn out for the young superstars.

I support this idea and while my kids swim year round, they also do other sports to stay balanced. But I wonder if this is still true. Ten to fifteen years ago, the norm was for kids to do multiple sports, so most d1 swimmers also did multiple sports. Today the norm is to concentrate in one earlier, so I think it’s just as likely that the d1 athletes from this cohort will have done the same. I have a friend who is a former professional soccer player who didn’t play exclusively until age 11/12. He works for an mls team’s academy and he said kids like him are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. He only sees the kids who have played since they were toddlers.

Anecdotally, I think this depends a lot on the club culture and coach. Our club has a flexible practice schedule and a coach who believes what's most important in the younger age groups is that kids want to keep swimming year to year. My kids played other sports and swam all the way through middle school. When they got to HS, kids who were invited to the highest group (where national level meets and college swimming are goals) are then asked to fully commit. There is no way to carry a second sport (other than maybe a rec team with your weekend game, no practice) with the swim schedule of 6d/6+ practices.

I have a junior committed to a Power 5, and other sports experience definitely came up on recruiting calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most D1 scholarship athletes did not start year round swimming until late elementary and intense daily practice until high school. Pay attention to PP that said this is a long game. It’s better to be an average swimmer when you are younger and peak in high school/ college. There is a lot of burn out for the young superstars.

I support this idea and while my kids swim year round, they also do other sports to stay balanced. But I wonder if this is still true. Ten to fifteen years ago, the norm was for kids to do multiple sports, so most d1 swimmers also did multiple sports. Today the norm is to concentrate in one earlier, so I think it’s just as likely that the d1 athletes from this cohort will have done the same. I have a friend who is a former professional soccer player who didn’t play exclusively until age 11/12. He works for an mls team’s academy and he said kids like him are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. He only sees the kids who have played since they were toddlers.

Anecdotally, I think this depends a lot on the club culture and coach. Our club has a flexible practice schedule and a coach who believes what's most important in the younger age groups is that kids want to keep swimming year to year. My kids played other sports and swam all the way through middle school. When they got to HS, kids who were invited to the highest group (where national level meets and college swimming are goals) are then asked to fully commit. There is no way to carry a second sport (other than maybe a rec team with your weekend game, no practice) with the swim schedule of 6d/6+ practices.

I have a junior committed to a Power 5, and other sports experience definitely came up on recruiting calls.

IMX is an extreme sport so that really counts as being a multi sport athlete in the eyes of college coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most D1 scholarship athletes did not start year round swimming until late elementary and intense daily practice until high school. Pay attention to PP that said this is a long game. It’s better to be an average swimmer when you are younger and peak in high school/ college. There is a lot of burn out for the young superstars.

I support this idea and while my kids swim year round, they also do other sports to stay balanced. But I wonder if this is still true. Ten to fifteen years ago, the norm was for kids to do multiple sports, so most d1 swimmers also did multiple sports. Today the norm is to concentrate in one earlier, so I think it’s just as likely that the d1 athletes from this cohort will have done the same. I have a friend who is a former professional soccer player who didn’t play exclusively until age 11/12. He works for an mls team’s academy and he said kids like him are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. He only sees the kids who have played since they were toddlers.

Anecdotally, I think this depends a lot on the club culture and coach. Our club has a flexible practice schedule and a coach who believes what's most important in the younger age groups is that kids want to keep swimming year to year. My kids played other sports and swam all the way through middle school. When they got to HS, kids who were invited to the highest group (where national level meets and college swimming are goals) are then asked to fully commit. There is no way to carry a second sport (other than maybe a rec team with your weekend game, no practice) with the swim schedule of 6d/6+ practices.

I have a junior committed to a Power 5, and other sports experience definitely came up on recruiting calls.

IMX is an extreme sport so that really counts as being a multi sport athlete in the eyes of college coaches.

My kid loved IMX. She was pretty good at it (which is probably why she liked it). But this is a ridiculous assertion. It helped my kid be the 'best' at something, even if she wasn't the fastest at any one event, which kept her engaged and motivated. I think it's a great program for a certain kind of kid, but college coaches absolutely do not care about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most D1 scholarship athletes did not start year round swimming until late elementary and intense daily practice until high school. Pay attention to PP that said this is a long game. It’s better to be an average swimmer when you are younger and peak in high school/ college. There is a lot of burn out for the young superstars.

I support this idea and while my kids swim year round, they also do other sports to stay balanced. But I wonder if this is still true. Ten to fifteen years ago, the norm was for kids to do multiple sports, so most d1 swimmers also did multiple sports. Today the norm is to concentrate in one earlier, so I think it’s just as likely that the d1 athletes from this cohort will have done the same. I have a friend who is a former professional soccer player who didn’t play exclusively until age 11/12. He works for an mls team’s academy and he said kids like him are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. He only sees the kids who have played since they were toddlers.

Anecdotally, I think this depends a lot on the club culture and coach. Our club has a flexible practice schedule and a coach who believes what's most important in the younger age groups is that kids want to keep swimming year to year. My kids played other sports and swam all the way through middle school. When they got to HS, kids who were invited to the highest group (where national level meets and college swimming are goals) are then asked to fully commit. There is no way to carry a second sport (other than maybe a rec team with your weekend game, no practice) with the swim schedule of 6d/6+ practices.

I have a junior committed to a Power 5, and other sports experience definitely came up on recruiting calls.

IMX is an extreme sport so that really counts as being a multi sport athlete in the eyes of college coaches.

Omg 😂

[Anonymous]

Someone said college coaches only cared about three events. So don’t you think by being great at IMX where there’s 5 events would attract a college coach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone said college coaches only cared about three events. So don’t you think by being great at IMX where there’s 5 events would attract a college coach?

One local club has a motto “an imx a day brings the scholarships your way”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone said college coaches only cared about three events. So don’t you think by being great at IMX where there’s 5 events would attract a college coach?

And none of them may be events you swim to get an IMX score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the best swim team in DMV area?

I have a daughter (8 yrs) who is showing some scary abilities in swimming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most D1 scholarship athletes did not start year round swimming until late elementary and intense daily practice until high school. Pay attention to PP that said this is a long game. It’s better to be an average swimmer when you are younger and peak in high school/ college. There is a lot of burn out for the young superstars.

You can say this about many other sports

[Anonymous]

IMX mom or dad, have you changed your mind yet about the value of IMX scores in high school and beyond? I have read your posts on other threads and how other posters try to explain why it’s not important, yet here you are still sounding pretty convinced.

Do some more research, and let us know what you find. I’d love to see what you find.

Some posters are so hooked into a specific theory that they ignore any other perspective. Are they like this in real life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone said college coaches only cared about three events. So don’t you think by being great at IMX where there’s 5 events would attract a college coach?

One local club has a motto “an imx a day brings the scholarships your way”

Lol, I actually love your commitment to the IMX concept even if you’re wrong.

[Anonymous]

IMX parent, what about all the super fast 50/100 free stylers? They find d 1 homes when they swim sub 20 50's.

IMX also ends at 14 YO? so shows nothing after.

IMX for 13/14 is all 200 yd + nothing lower and no sprinting.

[Anonymous]

I also am looking for the best swim team for my daughter. The early discussion made me think a move to the RMSC Rays would be a good fit to boost her college resume and win championships. However, i talked with some local parents at her school. They say their kids were recruited to the Potomac Muscles swim team. While most of the people on the team have to drive a long way to get to the pool, apparently the coach puts a strong emphasis on IMX score. I think the muscles may be the better fit long term because of this.

[Anonymous]

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I also am looking for the best swim team for my daughter. The early discussion made me think a move to the RMSC Rays would be a good fit to boost her college resume and win championships. However, i talked with some local parents at her school. They say their kids were recruited to the Potomac Muscles swim team. While most of the people on the team have to drive a long way to get to the pool, apparently the coach puts a strong emphasis on IMX score. I think the muscles may be the better fit long term because of this.

There is no RMSC Rays. It’s the Rockville Rays and while they are coached by an RMSC coach and a lot of his RMSC kids swim on this team, you do not have to be a member of RMSC to swim for the Rays. The Rays are an MCSL summer league team, and summer league results or championships don’t impact recruiting. I have never heard of Potomac Muscles. There is a club team called the Potomac Marlins, but they are based in VA, so if you are interested in RMSC or the Rockville Rays, swimming club for the Marlins makes no sense.