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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you. I am thinking about giving him one year of these competative club, and if he is still not motivated to meets, then we step down to recreational?

[quote=Anonymous]I’m going to be blunt, if your kid doesn’t like meets and doesn’t plan on participating in them why are you looking to pay $3k plus per year for competitive clubs?[/quote][/quote]
Does your son want to do this, or is this something you are pushing on him? By age 11 and a half I would give your child some ownership over the activities he wants to do, if he is still of the mindset he doesn’t want to do club swim meets, I would not force him to join a pricey competitive club team. [/quote]
I think this is a bit overly aggressive.  If he likes practice and works hard, then it's totally fine for him to do club swim.  He'll get the best coaching as part of a club.

My daughter is 11 and isn't particularly fast, so going to club meets and getting trounced isn't especially fun.  But she works hard at practice and is always improving.  She's also very petite and will be late to puberty--pediatrician estimates that she'll start at 13 or 14 yo, so the very later end for a girl--so it will be a long time until she can catch up physically, no matter how hard she works.  We are fine with her sticking with swim as long as she likes it.  We don't push every club meet as they can be demoralizing.  She loves summer meets and does well enough there with our lower division team.  So that's enough of a goal.  She doesn't need to be an aspiring D1 swimmer to get something out of the activity.[/quote]
OP is also asking about the cost. The price of competitive club swim in this area is not worth it for a kid that actually doesn’t want to compete. If money is no object, absolutely people still get something out of the coaching at a club, but if you’re mindful of the costs of your kid’s activities dropping $3,000+ per year at a competitive club like NCAP or Machine when your kid doesn’t want to compete doesn’t seem like a financially sound decision.[/quote]

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