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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone might have made this point already, but sometimes non club swimmers do quite well in summer swim because summer swim focuses on sprinting. A club swimmer who focuses on distances will not necessarily beat an athletic non-swimmer in a 25 or a 50. So don’t assume that your kid does not have a chance. And swimming is always about swimming against your previous times. There is always a faster swimmer somewhere.[/quote]

This is how you equalize summer swim - with sprints.  Club swimmers excel usually at distances.  A summer sprint is so unforgiving and just requires a swimmer to swim all out.[/quote]

The club swimmer should have better dives and turns. It's much easier to go all out if you are only above the surface for 30 of the 50[/quote]

Yes, this is where the club swimmers have an advantage that is hard to make up. The summer only swimmers might be super athletic but their starts,[b] turns[/b] and strokes are more sloppy because they haven't spent nearly as much time practicing and refining these skills. Some of the summer-only swimmers could be better than the year rounders if they did work on these things, but they have other priorities. In the long run the swimmer who spends more time in the pool will generally be faster at more events than the athletic summer only swimmer, especially in the older age groups.[/quote]

Summer swim meets are all about the turns. You can definitely tell the year round swimmers from the summer swimmer by their turns. And when swimming 50s races are won and lost on the turns.

All that said. Pools have varying degrees of competitiveness. Higher division pools have a larger proportion of kids who swim year round. We are a mid division pool and while we have kids in every age group who swim year round we also have a lot of summer only swimmers who still make A meets.

I do think it is hard for a non-year round kid to transition from a lower division pool where they likely swim as every A meet to a high div pool where they never make an A meet. Sure B meets are fun, but not nearly the same experience as A meets. Hopefully the other aspects of swim team make it fun for all kids regardless of their level. Our pool has a lot of team events and one day a week that is a fun day for the entire team with no practice. [/quote]

I see a lot of stuff about the fun of B meets on this thread, but that isn't universal. Our pool is larger and a much higher division than our neighboring pools. That means that most other pools aren't capable of hosting B meets with us and that parents from other pools know they will be spending a lot of time just watching our kids swim even when we limit the number of strokes our swimmers can do. We're lucky to get 5 b meets a year and usually end up hosting 4 of those 5. [/quote]

Isn't 5 pretty standard? [/quote]

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