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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d love to see swim shirts allowed. I’ve been a referee for about a decade and I’ve had to dq two different 8 and under boys who refused to take off a swim shirt. It was clearly not a competitive advantage, if anything made the kid slower with drag, but is a violation of the uniform rule for boys suits.

Obviously, I’m in a lower division and I’m sure this isn’t an issue in D1. I know the swim suit rules exist to eliminate the full body super fast swim suits, but I hate that it prevents a little kid from wearing the sun shirt they are comfortable in. [/quote]

I think this is a great idea. It makes sense for USA swimming to have their rules, but there’s no need for rec swim to be as strict.

I think it was a miss by USA swimming to have chosen 12U instead of 14U for banning tech suits. 14U would have been a natural cutoff given the transition between age group swimming and senior swimming. The current exception to allow tech suits for younger swimmers at jr national level meets and above would still be as effective. I’m sure the suit companies had a say in this. [/quote]

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