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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I skipped a grade and turned 18 in March of my freshman year of college. Why can’t I compete as an 18 year old in an 18 and under league?  Not a 19 year old, or even an old 18 year old. I was a year and a half younger than most of my classmates - grew later, drove later, etc.  Let me have this one thing![/quote]
So as a college sophomore you would have wanted to spend your summer participating in summer swim with a group of high school kids and younger, none of whom were your classmates? Sure :roll: [/quote]

My kid has a bad swim bday so this isn’t even my kid I’m talking about, BUT…I could see kids wanting to do this. Here’s how it plays out on our team:

- kid is 17 and goes to college, including swimming in college
- kid returns after a year of college and is an assistant coach on our summer swim team
- kid also swims at meets, where she is anyway for work and where she’s getting paid to be
- kid knows the whole team as both a teammate over many years + from assistant coaching[/quote]
No collegiate swimmer should be competing in summer rec swim that is meant for kids. If they want to come back and be an assistant coach, awesome, but competing against the kids, absolutely not.[/quote]

Huh?  Happens all the time. The “kids” are one year younger in some cases. Or the same age. [/quote]

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