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[quote=Anonymous]I think the competitiveness of most teams is somewhat cyclical.  eg, right now our summer team has a ton of club swimmers and has for several years.  If we hadn't known so many people swimming club we probably wouldn't have started.  
I do think that the overspecialization of youth sports takes away from summer swim.  e.g. kids who are playing travel soccer etc. have to keep up their soccer commitments all summer and always prioritize soccer over anything else- which leads to missing some swim practice and meets even if they are on the team.
I think the theory that there all a bunch of baby boomers occupying pool space and thus keeping out younger families from the pool and off swim team is simply bizarre.   As a pool board member, we love our baby boomer members- they pay their dues, and don't come much, so it's really not keeping us from letting anyone else in.  
In terms of swim practice times etc- I don't think its so much the rise of 2 parent working families, but the rise in supervision expectations for kids that can make swim team hard.  e.g. in the 1980's it was perfectly acceptable for your 9 year old to be dropped at swim practice, hang around until the pool opened, and then be at the pool all day 'unsupervised' while mom was at work.  Now many pools require kids to be at least 13 to be alone at the pool, latchkey kids aren't really a thing, etc.  [/quote]

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