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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our pool, kids seldom made it to the 15/18 age group. But overtime a culture was built where older kids chose to hang around even when swimming was no longer their primary sport because the team and the friends they made along the way meant something to them. When you get to High School kids might have other sports or interests but to be able to ascend from a preteam at age 5 to graduating 14 summers later with the same group of kids is pretty incredible and creates lifelong memories and friendships that really can’t be beat. When MCSL allowed swimmers who missed their senior season to comeback as exhibition swimmers in 2021 a large number did because they were passionate about the team and the relationships they built along the way and we’re overjoyed to put on the team cap one last time even it wasn’t for points. This did ruffle the feathers of a few crazy Karen swim parents who don’t understand what summer swim is all about.

Long story short, encourage your kids to stick it out if they can and see their summer swim career through to the finish because it can be quite redeeming and goes far beyond swimming in a pool
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Allowing one year to repeat means the year behind misses out. There are finite lanes in the pool, so inviting those seniors back edged out other kids. In our pool, it would have meant that current seniors never got their shot [/quote]

They swam in exhibition lanes. Didn’t take opportunity from anyone or score any points. They were there to be part of the team not to claim a trophy for 3rd most points in a age group (usually like 15 points over 15 swims) [/quote]

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