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[quote=Anonymous]As a PP said, I think swim team attracts families with lots of kids because it's one of the few sports/activities where all the kids can be on the same team.

There was a family with 7 kids where I grew up swimming. I didn't go to their summer pool but knew them from club meets. Everyone knew them because almost all of the kids were amazing swimmers. One was a legit rival to Phelps -- swam fly against him and would talk smack to him in a friendly way at the big meets. That one ended up swimming for an SEC school, and Phelps obviously reached a whole other level after that. One of the other siblings swam for a BIG 10 school but I think they quit halfway through. A couple of the others were at least on track for high level D1. They were younger than me so I don't know what they ended up doing.

I remember the mom used to SCREAM from the bleachers every time one of her kids was swimming... which was often. The dad was really quiet and nice. I think he worked as an official. I can see why it would be easier to just drive them all to the pool at the same time for club practice. And I'm sure once 2 or 3 turned out to be super fast, they figured the others might be too, LOL[/quote]

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