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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not correct to say a birthday always hurts a kid, no matter when the birthday occurs. For example, kids born in mid to late summer don't really have a "bad" swim birthday. The vast majority of the country doesn't have another significant meet where it matters until around October. For NVSL, they swim under the lower age group. Since mid August-September birthdays don't really compete again until 2+ months after they age up and they were able to get through Sectionals, Zones (age group and senior), long course champs, NVSL, JOs, etc. without swimming up. Plus, the birthdays in the beginning of the short course season are not typically as important (highly ranked) as the championship meets.
 
Kids with late Feb and early March birthdays are hurt with: JOs, junior/senior champs, ISCA, Sectionals, etc. It is not fair to those kids, but there needs to be a cut off somewhere, so there it is. [/quote]

But what isn't fair? They know the time standard for their age group in the meet they will swim, so they should be working toward that.[/quote]

^^How to say you don’t have a kid with a birthday in early Feb to early March without using those words. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.  🤷‍♀️ a kid with a birthday on 3/8 will have two years to make jos like every other kid but she will need the 11-12 cut when she’s days into 11 and the 13-14 cut when she’s days into 13. Meanwhile another kid will have to make the 11-12 cut when she’s a year into 11 and just about to turn 13. It “only” really hurts kids with those birthday until they are around 16.

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