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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He'll either hit puberty and have the frame of a fast swimmer or he won't. A lot of younger kids who start early and are athletic and coordinated (which seems to be associated with compact builds in younger kids) jumps out fast, but fall back as other kids get bigger and stronger. [/quote]

+1 So very true![/quote]

+1  Seen this firsthand with some of the boys in our swim club - and they're not able to hang now that they're in the 11-12 & above groups.  While they still swim for the club, they've all started other sports to develop additional skill sets (e.g., lacrosse, baseball, soccer, etc...).  There are more college scholarships for those sports than swimming.[/quote]

It’s funny how so many posters in this and the “delayed puberty” thread are jumping to this conclusion that when a swimmer hits a tougher phase at the bottom of their age group they are simply just not good at the sport after all. It’s like weird jealousy or schadenfreude, and completely illogical since this is a very normal experience for most successful swimmers and other athletes. Yes, there are kids who are the best at 10 then drop the sport, but far more common are the elite 10 year olds who eventually become the elite senior swimmers, despite bumps in the road through the puberty years. [/quote]

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