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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's nice that it's a co-ed sport.  They don't compete against each other but the teams/clubs are co-ed.  I think that way lowers the douche factor that you see in a lot of male team sports.  Kids aren't really threatened by other kids because it's a very objective sport - times.  Someone wins and someone loses so they will compete with each other but it doesn't get nasty or personal in my experience.  They do tend to cheer for each other.  Summer swim and high school teams are very social and fun.  Club swimmers can be more intense and winter meets are pretty long and boring.

For kids who get very intensely into club swimming in high school, it's truly terrible hours (basically waking up in the middle of the night 5-6 days a week) and very time consuming and doesn't allow for much of a life outside of it.  But club swimming does leave lots of opportunities to swim less intensely and they can participate on their high school team.

It's like anything there are parents who are incapable of talking about anything but their child and swimming and it's painful.  But there are regular people too.[/quote]

All of this has been our experience. Will also add: summer swim is super fun. Winter/club swim can be a drag but is great exercise and my kids have great friends from it. It’s pretty supportive. It’s definitely not the most diverse sport (lots of white and Asian kids) but my kids have friends of all races on their dmv team. Lots of volunteering needed to make meets run.[/quote]

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