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[quote=Anonymous]I have no issue with a college swimmer returning to the summer league because they can for one more year. Turnabout is fair play, if it’s ok for club swimmers to swim in the summer rec league, the D1 swim can too. They meet the age requirements, so why not?

The problem with this entire issue is there are a bunch of parents who pay a boatload for their kids to swim year round and they expect for their kids to crush summer rec swim - having had the advantage of hours in the pool and good coaching throughout the winter. Then they get mad that some kid who also does all those things too (or is just simply a summer swimmer who happens to be a strong athlete)  benefits from the birthday cutoff - never recognizing or acknowledging the hypocrisy that their kid has a huge advantage over a large portion of the summer rec swim population because they choose to do club swim and can afford it.

The advantage created by a summer birthday is nothing compared to that created by club swimming. 
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