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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m OP at the 1982 record pool and the best 8U we’ve had in the past decade was the only one who had a chance and she was just a tiny bit off.

It’s very true about the lack of club swimming back then. Where I grew up, I can think of only 3 kids across 5 grades who started club swim before middle school, and not one of them lasted past HS. The record holders before my time included multiple Big 10 and PAC 12 college swimmers and some who went to Olympic trials.

The kids who were crushing summer swim in 8U and 9-10 were just top all-around athletes who were more focused on soccer and went on to be college soccer or field hockey players. They probably had really high aerobic capacity from how we used to train for little kid soccer, which was running laps or suicides for 30 minutes and then 15 minutes of soccer drills and then a scrimmage for 15 minutes. I don’t think kids are made to run like that anymore.[/quote]

It's true that our 1980s-era record is for 8U, so this makes sense.[/quote]

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