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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Only in year round swim. Because it is year round it makes sense that is how age rules work.

[b]Across the country pretty much all major summer swim leagues have a similar rule as NVSL and MCSL. [/b] [/quote]

I know you NVSL people think you're the center of the universe, but no, the rest of the country does not run exactly like NVSL. [/quote]

This is correct. There is a summer swim team league where I live and it’s super casual - no one is seeded, no need to sign up ahead of time for events or be told what to swim - your kid can swim every single event back to back if they wanted. There is one timer per lane and parents or siblings volunteer on the spot, no signups or deposits. My kids are club swimmers and they love to go back and help out by timing, announcing, and corralling the little kids. All the kids on the honor system to enter the right event. Lifeguards race the kids in a pool noodle race at the end of the meet. It ends with pizza and ice cream. There’s never any drama, just smiles. [/quote]

No one said all summer swim runs exactly the same way.  They said that most summer swim don't have kids age up on their birthday.  Are you saying that your pool runs like USA swimming in that particular way?  [/quote]

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