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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]

Montgomery County Maryland (MCPS)
The public high schools (~26?) share public/county pools with patrons and our club team that runs out of them. So they get two practices, could be morning or after school. They maybe get 3-4 lanes because multiple schools could be there at the same time. The club kids are required to be "present" for one of them. That just means they sign in, they actually do not get in the water to allow for non-club swimmers to get the space. This is the case for the big teams anyway. I am sure there are schools with smaller teams and the kids may get in. We're at one of the biggest schools with a lot of swimmer, so there are cuts, and sometimes a few club swimmers even get cut.

This is unique to swim due to pool space. Other sports are practicing 5d as far as I know. [/quote]

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