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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ours was 
8&under
9-12
13-17?

[b]Not they are doing it as beginner intermediate and advanced because some moms think their 8&unders are too good to swim with their age group. How does your pool do it? [/b]

I don’t know what group my girls will be in but I can’t help but feel shocked that the coach approved this. My 10 year old swims very different events from an 8yr old no matter how fast this special 8 year old swims. 10yr olds are swimming 50s and need to be pushing flip turns and longer lengths while for summer an 8 year old is not doing that.

I thought summer was supposed to be fun and inclusive, we are not a top 10 division. [/quote]

Kind of defeats the purpose of summer swim and making friends with your peer group.

We have 8&U, 9-10, 11-12, and 13&U.

For a coach it would be foolish to have an 8&U swim with an older group, they only swim 25s and do not need to work on turns.  They should be focusing on stroke mechanics.  9-10s now have 50s and turns and need to focus on that.  11-12s could be with the 13&U, our team does not because developmentally there is a big difference between an 11 year old and a 17 year old, so it is more a social thing than a skill level.

Our team has differentiation across the lanes in the age group (fast to slow) so it works out.  The really fast kids tend to be club swimmers and attend club practice.[/quote]

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