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[quote=Anonymous]So although summer swim is intense and short, parents have to transition to the club mentality which is very different with meets. Unless your kid is in a senior performance group you will not do more than a meet a month. There is no need to travel either. Also, encourage your swimmer to try and get their elite patch. Each club will tell you the standard, but it pushes the swimmer to compete in all age appropriate events with a little push. At 9, my kid's hardest event was the 200 IM. Try to have your swimmer compete both days of the meet and to do the maximum number events allowed that day. This confuses parents at first since you usually only do sprint 50s and 2 or 3 events in the summer at a meet. Whereas a winter meet will have long breaks between events with plenty recovery.[/quote]
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