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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current system can produce really wacky results when the champs meets are held on different dates in different years.  We have a boy with a March 13 birthday on our team.  Last year, PVS champs was March 9-12, so he competed as 11 year old.  This year, PVS champs is March 14-17, so he'll have to compete as a 13 year old (and probably won't make any cuts). [b] The kid never gets a chance to compete as a 12 year old.[/b]  [/quote]

Wrong.  He completed as a 12 year old for the entire year that he was in fact 12.[/quote]

And none of that time included the PVS champs meet.[/quote]
I totally understand that would suck for that kid, but you are talking about something that would happen to a minuscule number of swimmers.[/quote]

And something like this could also give them three chances to qualify in the next age group (13-14), where they might very well be the oldest kid in the 14&u group at the PVS champs meet in 2026.[/quote]

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