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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op.  I have 2 college swimmers.  Swimming is brutally honest about your performance because the clock doesn’t lie.  It’s also quite common for swimmers to go months or years without improving their time.  Lots of “lessons in disappointment.”

My oldest tells me the trick to making it in this sport is learning to enjoy the ride.  You have to accept the ups and downs as part of the sport and not let it ruin your love for the sport.   The disappointment and frustration is real.  The questions are, what do you do with those feelings? do you let them control your behavior? And do you love the sport enough to embrace those feelings?  They come with the territory. [/quote]

Thank you for this. I actually cut and pasted it in my phone notes to use as talking points with my kid. This is spot on [/quote]

Just spoke with my freshman son.  He says the trick for him was to build up the other aspects of his life so he was more well-rounded.  His friends in HS were not swimmers, he invests in other interests (for him having friends who are into golf and fishing was helpful and a job that was not swim coaching).  Make sure you are not all about your sport. [/quote]

This is 100% my athlete’s strategy, too. He can consciously acknowledge school, friend, dating, family, etc ways to build self-esteem and not only get it from the sport.

If he has a frustrating game we have worked to communicate better, so he can say, “I just need to shower and be alone for a bit before I’m around people” and we respect that. When he emerges he is in a space to not be cranky. 
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