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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a huge team with lots of year round swim kids in the older ages. Only some kids get picked for A meets. But they all practice at the same time and there is not splitting out to A swimmers and B swimmers during practice.

My view as mom of one older year round swimmer and one younger summer inly swimmer. Normal practices are not really enough for them to learn the stroke mechanics well enough. You need to add some of the one on one lessons or at least small group clinics (ours offers these for a small extra fee). It is just too many kids on a large team.

In my view if there is favoritism or different treatment of A meet vs B meet kids in any way other than selection for Sat swimming then it is a toxic team feel I would not want my kids on. It should be one big full team - some of which swims on Sat. [/quote]
Our team doesn’t separate out to A swimmers and B swimmers per se, the kids are separated by age groups, the 8 and unders, early ES, late ES, middle school, and HS, but they do move kids into different practice groups based on ability. Essentially all the club kids are in the HS practice group regardless of their age. I think this is helpful because then you don’t have the 10 year old club kid swimming with their age group, who can’t keep up with them and then get salty about that kid being the best all the time. If you want the club kids to come to practice you also can’t have the 10-12 year old club kids swim with their age group because they get nothing out of that practice. The mix of ages in my kid’s practice group has been fun for them, they make a point to go to summer practice after club practice at least once a week and feel like they also get something out of it. [/quote]

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