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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn’t fair but that’s the rule. I’m sure those who think it’s fair also think it’s fair when newly 19 year old division 1 swimmers finish a full year of college training, and then return home to swim against kids who were 14 years old a few weeks ago.

Clearly, that’s fair, too. [/quote]

It is 7-8 weeks of summer swimming, just relax.  I’m so surprised people are thinking about fairness with such a short, only for fun, activity.  The pools don’t even have blocks and the distances are a joke, and there is a mixed age relay; just have your kid enjoy it and focus on improving their times.  Who even examines other kids’ ages that closely?  And yeah, in the VERY unusual circumstance where a D1 swimmer with a summer birthday came back and did summer swimming the kids on our team would be psyched to see them, nbd.  I can’t imagine someone getting seriously upset about this.  [/quote]

People are upset because a 10U boy is 11 years and 5 weeks and are claiming some huge advantage. What about the Olympians and nationally ranked swimmers who come back to swim for their summer pool?

How is that fair? My kid doesn’t even club swim but these kids have access to the best coaching in the world /s

“Katie Ledecky returns to her summer swim league to sign autographs — and set records” - WaPo

I’m kidding of course - I love this aspect of summer swim, but it puts into perspective how silly the moving the cutoff argument is. 
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I think I having a cutoff is appropriate for summer swim because the season is so short, but don’t pretend that using August 1 instead of June 1 is ridiculous. It creates the same issue for small groups of swimmers regardless of the cutoff date you use. An 11 year 5 week old competing in the 9-10 group is the same as the 10 year 11 month old competing in the 11-12 group, it just disadvantages different small groups of swimmers. [/quote]

It’s not the same when you are talking about the next age groups up.  It creates a mich bigger discrepancy in the 13-14 and 15-18 groups.  Hormones.  Just let it go man![/quote]
I'm not sure that's true for the girls.  We had our swim banquet last night and the 10yo girls were all a full head taller than the 9 yo.  [/quote]

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