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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just wait for high school swim. 14 year old freshman compete against 18 year old seniors. [/quote]

I think everyone understands the landscape of high school sports.  Now if you had college freshmen posing as high school seniors people might cry foul.[/quote]
The OP is crying about age differences and the perceived “unfairness”. In her view, it would be “unfair” for a 14 year old Freshman to have to compete against an 18 year old senior. [/quote]

At least nobody is a college swimmer coming back to high school to compete, unlike in summer swim. [/quote]

We had one come back to try and set team records. A year of being on a D1 swim team does wonders for your times [/quote]

I could have done that, but felt it would be unfair after a year of NCAA training and racing. That’s not an even playing field. Like what are you trying to prove doing that?  It’s a summer league for school aged kids. [b]If you a set records as an 18 yr old high school senior,[/b] great. But I would have felt so dumb at dual meets standing in the starting area next to high school kids who only swim in the summer for fun. Classic example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”. It’s time to move on once you’ve had a year at college. 
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For a kid to do this they would have been a 17 yo high school senior.  Not 18 yo.

We had a kid do this on our swim team this year, having just finished his freshman D1 year.  He was a coach and *amazing* at it. Idolized by the littles and inspirational to the bigger kids.  He was an excellent sport and just the nicest person. The whole team really benefitted from him being there.[/quote]

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