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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately at a lot of pools with big swim teams like that, newer swimmers in older age groups are pretty much left to flounder. And 8 is older at some of these pools, crazily. Your girls were probably practicing the strokes incorrectly all season with no instructions. Otherwise, they would have improved a lot more.[/quote]

This IME. my kids did summer swim for the first time last year (age 7 and 9) and this was my experience.

They had fun and improved their confidence and endurance but I wouldn’t say their swimming skills improved much.

If you want them to get better at this age you’ll have to do lessons, most likely.

My kids are good/safe swimmers but aren’t truly interested in competing etc so we didn’t do team this summer. I did sign them up for some stroke refinement classes over the summer and will probably continue doing that every summer for awhile. They are more interested in other sports.

In short, it just depends what you want your kids to “get out of it”. If they are happy and having fun- great. If you want them to be competitive you’ll definitely have to do more. [/quote]

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