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From what you describe, it doesn't sound like your child has strong enough swimming skills to be successful on a swim team. I'd do some more private lessons and then revisit. 
 
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Just to elaborate - that is based upon our experience at our pool.  My son even had to "try out" for the team as a 5 year old.  He could swim but his form was really poor.  They suggested he keep working and try out again at 6  years, at which point he was accepted onto the team.  [/quote]

Whereas our summer team is accepting of everyone. We have older kids who struggle across the pool, don't do flip turns (legal for freestyle), and end up with times approaching 2 mins for 50s. Those kids end up making the most tremendous progress over the course of a summer. No one else is cutting a minute off their 50 free time. One of those kids is now, at age 12, making A or AA times for many of his events. No, that's not going to be all of the kids who start out struggling but it's going to be enough. These are children.

Not every pool is accepting, I would consider my options carefully. There is no reason that someone shouldn't love something just because they're not terribly good at it. Swim team can be a lot of fun. There's no reason you have to be one of the fastest swimmers in order to love swimming on a swim team.

I would not put a struggling swimmer on a team like some of the above posters have described. It needs to be a fun experience for him.[/quote]

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