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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They seem too different.  It would make more sense to me once a boy hits 15…not 13.  At 13-14 a lot of the boys and girls are still the same size…[/quote]
This is not true at all. [/quote]

Yes.  It absolutely is.[/quote]
It is not true that “a lot” of 13-14 boys are the same size as 13-14 girls. Yes, the late bloomer boys may be but that’s why they are called “late bloomers” because most boys have started to shoot up at that age and are bigger than the girls. [/quote]

Per the CDC: avg height of 13 year old boy is 61.4 inches.  Avg height of 13 year old girl is 61.8 inches.  So it is absolutely true that a lot of 13-14 boys are the same height as girls. [/quote]
I wasn’t talking about the general population, we are talking about swimming. I’ve been around the sport for a minute and it quite frankly is always pretty obvious how much bigger the 13-14 boys are (height, muscle mass, etc.) It is a big part of why the cut times and time standards for boys and girls diverge so sharply at that age group. Prior to that point, the standards and cuts are generally pretty close. In the open meets so far this year they have been running the 12 and under events combined gender and the top girls are still able to hang with and beat the top boys. That just isn’t the case once you get to the 13-14 age group. [/quote]

“I wasn’t talking about the general population, we are talking about swimming”.

Are you talking about swimming, or swimming at a high level (champs meets and up)?   Because the 13-14 boys are not always so much bigger.  At the champs meets, of course.  But at open meets there is a much more even distribution of sizes- boys and girls.  [/quote]

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