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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s an interesting point. My son is a small 7 and he is racing against kids that turned 9 mid season. There is a huge difference between a 7 year old and a 9 year old in height, weight, strength. [/quote]

Hang on…wait til your swimmer is 11 swimming against that kid when he’s 13. [/quote]

You poor thing. Your 11 year old swimmer must not be very fast. My 11 year old swimmer can hold their own against the 13 year olds. [/quote]
Gosh.  You're an awful person.  Get help.

Parents of kids with summer birthdays are used to always having their kid be the youngest.  It happens over and over.  It seems a bit ridiculous to hear the parents of kids with school year birthdays to suddenly get bent out of shape that their kid no longer has the advantage in just this one thing.  They'll harp on and on about how redshirting is wrong and age cut offs must be respected.  Or how after 1st grade it doesn't really matter that their kid is 12 months older, that doesn't give an advantage, their kid is just very athletic.  Yet here there is just one June 1st cutoff--the only one I've ever heard of--and those same parents are up in arms.  Well, welcome to how it feels.  It's no different than my 8 yo being in basketball tryouts with almost 11 yos who have already hit puberty and have 40 lbs and 14 inches on her.  (And in this case the disadvantage is only for the fun summer season, your kid can still do winter swim with age cutoffs.  With basketball it's the same cutoff for rec, AAU and travel so she'll never have an opportunity to not be the very youngest.)[/quote]

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