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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, agree that height in swimming is way overstated on this board. Most of the elite senior swimmers at our club are average height (some even below) and they are already committed to very highly ranked D1 schools. Maybe if you mean the Olympics, but that’s not what most people are really after. [/quote]
Height and the idea that if you are a standout at 10 you won’t be good anymore at 16 are the most overstated things on this board. Yes, there are standout 10 year olds that are all around excellent athletes that end up choosing another sport or otherwise leaving swim, but if you look at the elite swimmers almost all of them were also excellent when they were 10. None of the elite swimmers were merely average when they were young and then became elite once they hit HS. [/quote]

Saying that a D1 was a standout at 10 is different than saying a standout at 10 will be a D1 swimmer. The first statement is probably true, but many standout 10 year olds don't end up being elite college swimmers. [/quote]

Of course. The point is the most successful teenagers emerge from the group of already successful 10 and 11 year olds. The odds are still against any one successful 11 year old being an elite teen swimmer, but the odds of a B or BB swimmer making it are almost impossibly long [/quote]

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