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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are 4 and 5 and just stumbled into a swim team practice in our neighborhood pool 2 weeks ago.  I just found out the season is over but planning for next year.

What is swim team all about?  What is pre-team and what should I expect for my kids. There is practice daily?  There are meets weekly?  Help me navigate this for next year. I have asked neighbors and some love it and some can’t handle it. Give me the scoop. [/quote]

Dig through and read the swim related threads here over the past 2 months and you'll have a pretty good picture of summer swim.

You'll be in pre-team next year so no need to over-think this, you'll learn most of what you need to know between now and the end of next season.[/quote]

Not necessarily. My 6 year old DD swam 8U this year and made every A meet and divisionals. [/quote]

That's a nice humble-brag but if you are completely honest, you have to admit that this is fairly exceptional and very atypical, don't you agree?

OP seems to know nothing about about swim(hence the question) so the chances that her now 4 and 5 year olds are doing anything other than pre-team is unlikely.  And there's nothing wrong with that.
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I'm a NP and I had a similar experience.  I know nothing about swim.  My brand-new 7 yo (May birthday) had never heard of breaststroke when she started the season.  She made Divisionals for the stroke, narrowly missing All Stars.  Crazy stuff happens when you're first starting, like dropping 40 seconds in the week before Divisionals. She spent 30 minutes with a senior swimmer and came out of that practice with a good stroke.

When we signed up, I hadn't expected swim to take over my Saturdays. From what I'd been told, I didn't expect to go to A meets at all.  That turned out not to be true.  We were at nearly every A meet.

Not bragging, just trying to defend the PP.  It can be a lot the first year as you figure it all out.  I had no idea what to expect. [/quote]

No one who was swimming in A meets all summer dropped 40 seconds in a week.  Didn't happen.[/quote]
Especially in a 25 meter race, that’s ridiculous.[/quote]

My kids are 13-14 and 15-18 now, but I see something like this every year in the 8 and unders in our mid divisions nvsl team.

They will take a 6 or 7 year old who doesn’t have a clue how to do breaststroke or fly and takes over a minute to get across the pool just to dq. And a coach or other older kid will spend a few practices teaching them breast or fly and it just clicks with the kid. They get legal for the last meet of the year, then go to Divisionals and drop massive time.  I’ve never seen anyone get good enough to “almost” make all stars. But we seem to have an 8 and under at Divisionals every year who couldn’t swim the stroke two weeks before. [/quote]

Agree. Most kids in 8 and under can barely swim so any kid who manages to be legal in breast or fly has a chance at divisionals in lower division teams.[/quote]

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