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[quote=Anonymous]Swimming, for sure. If you find the right environment, it can be a good mix of individual achievement and team camaraderie. For a lot of age-group swimmers, they'll focus on team fun with summer teams, and personal achievements during the winter season.

Good coaches will put a swimmer in a practice group and lane that fits their abilities, so their day-to-day experience will boost their confidence as well as providing some challenges.

Also, the wide variety of strokes and distances means that there are lots of options for finding their niche within swimming as a whole. If they don't have great reflexes and can't get off the block fast enough to be a good sprinter, they can work on stamina and be a distance swimmer. Hate putting their face in the water, or can't seem to get the breathing rhythm down? Backstroke!

I learned to swim as a toddler, but didn't join a summer team until I was about 8. I was a decent swimmer as a teenager, could have even swum at a lower-tier college if I'd wanted to. And I have ZERO athletic skill on dry land. Terrible reflexes, no hand-eye coordination, can't catch, trip over my own feet. But somehow I'm effortlessly graceful in the water. [/quote]

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