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[quote=Anonymous]So I know there are a few teams in the area that have literally hundreds of swimmers and kids who will never see an A meet.

But our pool and many in our division are tiny. Sure, we can field enough kids for meets and we’re competitive, but there isn’t a ton of depth and kids flit in and out for a couple of years and that’s it.

I did summer swim in the mid-80s to mid-90s. Our country club team was huge and it seemed like every kid with a pulse participated through 9-10s and even through high school a lot of kids stayed on in spite of being far more serious about soccer, baseball, lacrosse, etc. The team was a mix of winter swimmers and casual swimmers. It was very competitive- I rarely swam outside of the equivalent of B meets. Out of curiosity I looked up my old pool’s online record board, and more than half of the records are kids I knew or records I remember seeing from the early 80s. There was still one from 1976. They haven’t been broken! How is this possible?

While I was down that rabbithole, I looked up practice times at my old country club. There are two: one for 8 & unders and one for 9 & ups. We used to have practices going from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm with lanes of 8-10 kids.

1) why haven’t records been broken? They were set by year-round swimmers who went on to D1 and D3 programs, but it’s not like they were Eastern Europeans from the 70s. The oldest records are for 8 & unders and 9-10s.
2) what’s shrinking summer swimming by you if your club is experiencing something similar?

My old club seems to be struggling with aging membership and long waitlists that are keeping young families out. My current club has a lot of kids who go to day camps, play select sports, or just can’t swim competently.[/quote]

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