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A lot of the best swimmers do not swim HS because they are more likely to be recruited through Club and not HS.[/quote]

How do they gain the varsity experience colleges want, then? I have a teen who wants to go to the Air Force Academy. Shouldn't he focus on high school?[/quote]

Our public high schools have 2, 1hr practices per week, that isn’t going to train anyone to get the times to get on team at AF or any other academy. The kids train with their clubs and swim most of the HS meets.

For recruiting at these schools, coaches are looking at best times in sanctioned meets. Only a few HS meets per season are official sanctioned times.

Additionally, there are school districts and private HS that don’t have swim teams, so obviously, those kids can only club swim.[/quote]
This Tiger Mom is actually not talking about a kid being recruited to swim, she is asking about being able to put on a college application that the kid was a varsity swimmer, like any other throwaway EC that she has forced her kid to participate in solely for the purpose of putting it on an application. [/quote]

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