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[quote=Anonymous]Question for experienced swimmers and parents of swimmers. My 9 year old DD completed her first season on a year round swim team this past June. She decided to join a local summer team to keep busy during the summer.
There has been some confusion as to what age group she should compete against in meets. Her coach said she has to swim a year up because she's a club swimmer, however she's 9 so he said she still falls into the 9-10 category.
At a meet this past weekend, she had been marshalled and was next up to race and the meet manager pulled her off and said someone complained about her and they want her to swim an age group up, so 11-12 year old category.
They ended up letting her finish the meet as a 9-10 year old swimmer. But the other parents were pissed. They were complaining out loud about how pathetic my DD's parents are. I really had nothing to do with it.
DD has one final meet this coming weekend and I'm wondering what would you do? Let her finish out as 9-10 or ask to put her in 11-12? I'm fine with challenging her to swim up. She's a strong swimmer but she'd definitely be at a huge disadvantage competing against 8th graders and older club swimmers. I felt she was competitive in the 9-10 category. She finished top 3 in every meet but not always gold or silver, so she did have competition. [/quote]

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