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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t mean Olympic level swimmers, just kids who make high school swim teams and can compete competitively and get really good. Is 5th grade too late to join the pre competitive team, either summer or fall team? I have a friend who said her son has been swimming since taking lessons before preschool and has been doing swim teams competitively since kindergarten. She said kids who haven’t joined by mid elementary it’s looking too late unless they are natural swimmers by genetics or something. Is she right? [/quote]

By pre-competitive summer options, do you mean pre-team?

On our team, the pre-team kids are usually 5 - 7.  I think that a 10 year old would feel out of place.  I'd probably see if I could do some lessons this spring and get him legal in a stroke or two so he could do the team this summer.

As for being too late, I don't think that 10 is too late to learn to swim, to build a possible lifetime option for physical fitness.  I don't think it's too late to have fun and enjoy the camaraderie of summer swim, and to possibly join a lower level year round team, or a high school team that's not too competitive.  It might be too late for a top level club team, or to be recruited for college, depending on how athletic your kids are, but those would not the goals most of us bring to summer swim.

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