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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do summer swim until they LOVE it.  Summer swim is the most fun for the kids.  Once they asking for more, then consider doing USA Swimming with a club year round.  This is a pretty big jump in demands and isn't as fun (ie where it becomes more serious).  Do not push them to year round until they want it otherwise you will kill their love of the sport.

That being said, here is the USA swimming site to find clubs near you.  It will show you every pool around you where clubs practice and which clubs practice there.

https://www.usaswimming.org/home/find-a-team[/quote]

But at what age is it basically too late to jump into year round to be competitive? That’s another factor. My summer swimmer is 9 and swimmers around us seem to be implying it’s too late already! I don’t really care as I don’t see mine going to swim in college or anything, but it’s a great healthy activity for now. [/quote]

Bad advice and its hard to get on some teams the older kids are.  At 9, it gets much harder as most start at 5-6-7.[/quote]

Our experience has been that it’s hard to get onto some of the most  competitive teams starting at 9 (eg RMSC in Maryland) but there are plenty of other good programs that will take your kid. We had a strong preference for RMSC due to cost, convenience, and friends on the team and one kid didn’t make it until 12 but it wasn’t hard to find other year round programs for her. We know plenty of kids from our summer team that started year round in middle or even high school.[/quote]

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