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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]

I’m the Ohio poster and this is fascinating! Is this DMV? Big school? Small? I don’t know any high school sport that isn’t at least 5 days/week![/quote]

In Fairfax County, high schools do not have their own pools. So a 60-80 person team gets three lanes at the local rec center to practice. Club swimmers (which is all but one kid for my daughter’s HS team) are expected to attend one practice a week and are not encouraged to do more because there just isn’t space. They all are practicing at least 5 or 6 days a week, though. Just not all together as a HS team, because that’s impossible.[/quote]

I hope you are exaggerating. Most FC high schools practice 4 days a week with meets on Friday. They have 6-8 lanes for a 1-2 hr practice.  Club swimmers make it a couple days a week, but mostly practice with their club team. [/quote]

I am not. There are four available practices of one hour each with three lanes. There is only transportion one day a week.[/quote]

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