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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?[/quote]

It would make people feel better if summer swim worked like year round swim. [/quote]

Only a small minority care about it at all. I’m going on a hunch here, but I’m guessing it is parents of kids born in April and May.

They tried that for a few years in NVSL at one point for a few years and it sucked, so they changed it back.

As another poster pointed out, it does work like club swim [b]in that they use your age on the first day of the meet where the 6-week season is one long meet. [/b][/quote]

This is the dumbest explanation I’ve heard yet. They use age on the first day of the meet because they have to feed all the information into a computer system that is not yet capable of seeding kids as two different ages, so the technology is literally not capable of seeding a multiple day meet with kids who change ages mid-meet. Swim tech is old and clunky.

That same technology is used to seed summer swim, but unlike in the example above, the tech could easily handle a birthday switch by doing exactly what it normally does - seeding kids by their real age.

There is no technological or practical reason for the birthday rule. It’s just parents of summer birthday kids wanting their kids to be advantaged. [/quote]

Let me guess… your kid has a May birthday. [/quote]

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