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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[The vast majority of people doing summer swim don't do year round swim.  [/b]Kids who do already have huge advantages.  Why would we change a system that works to accommodate them?

Frankly, I think it would be great if summer swim worked like many other sports.  If you do club you can't do rec. You have to choose. [/quote]

We just had all stars. Almost everyone at all stars is a club swimmer. So you have club swimmers above the age bracket dominating club swimmers who are within the age bracket. [/quote]

Except they are not above the age bracket. Unless you don’t understand his rules work. Like someone much earlier said, hockey has a similar rule. The age cutoff is January but the spring tournament season goes though March. No one complains there that 11 year olds play in a 10u tournament even.  And that’s a 3 month gap.

Because most people know how rules work. Just because NVSL and MCSl and every other summer swim league calls their level 9-10, the rules clearly specify that includes kids with birthdays until early June. If you can’t read the rules and understand how they work, no one can help you. [/quote]

Except that’s now how swimming works in the entirety of the swim community and across the country. [/quote]

I would guess that summer swim teams are the majority of teams in the country.  Club swim isn’t the entirety of the swim community.[/quote]

LOL, what??? Summer rec league swimming is not the "majority" of teams in the country.  Do you have any idea how huge USA Swimming is? What are you even talking about? [/quote]

USA swimming says they have 2500 teams in the whole country, and average of 50 per state.  NVSL alone has more than 100.  Add that to every other summer rec swim team?  Yep, I'll bet it's way more than 2500.  [/quote]

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