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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’d think parents would be happy to have lanes less crowded by club swimmers not attending. But again, the chief complaint really isn’t really about practice attendance, it’s that poor Larla and Larlo aren’t able to swim A meets because there are faster swimmers on the team. Feel free to sign your swimmers up for winter swim![/quote]

But those parents would:

1. Have to pay more $$$$
2. Have to drive them to swim practice at 4:30 am during the week and early on Saturdays
3. Have to drive them to swim meets all around the DMV for short/long course (or travel to ISCA/NCSA)
4. Have to time their kids longer swims
5. Have to volunteer for the club team
6. Have to shell out $$$ for swim equipment, parka, t-shirts/sweatshirts

Club swimmers aren't inherently better kids.  They just put in the work year round.  That's why they swim the A meets.[/quote]

Nah- a few are naturally gifted (and have the right genetics) but most
work their tails off 50 weeks a year, and upwards of 20-25 hours/week. If club swimmers were banned from summer swim (or required to attend practices which isn’t feasible when every summer team practice conflicts with club practices) then parents of summer only swimmers will have to step up and volunteer more.

I have a feeling that most summer teams couldn’t exist without the parents of their club swimmers.[/quote]

I just don't think that it is really the right outlet for it.  Personally, I think the summer league teams start to shrink because people don't get much value out of it.  Maybe two or three meets in the summer, never going to make an A meet.  OK I'm done.  Maybe I'll just get a membership at pool somewhere where it isn't so crowded for the summer.[/quote]

No, more likely that swimming isn't the kid's primary sport because the kid doesn't want to swim year round - and that's okay.  When kids get to the 13-14 level, they have either chosen swim as their primary sport or they chose some other sport.  That other sport may have summer practices (or even a year round club) that conflicts with swim.  Even if there isn't a conflict, kids who are serious about another sport are often too tired to swim.  There are some who stick around at 13-14 and 15-18, but there aren't that many (at least there weren't on our team that had 150+ summer swimmers).  Also, kids at the 15-18 level have summer jobs that conflict with summer swim.

One of my kids dropped summer swim in favor of another sport, not because s/he wasn't able to swim A meets (and s/he did swim some A meets).[/quote]

Yeah, we've already got our summer league exit planned for around 13-14.  That's when they'll have to buy tickets to watch her perform.  It is a good cross training sport, if you actually get to do it.  Might have to take up water running instead.[/quote]

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