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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he can't make it down the 25 freestyle, he would not make our team.   While officially our rule is make it the length of the pool- I've seen the coaches reject kids who make it, but its messy and wears them out.  They move them to the junior team.   If they rapidly improve on junior team, they are sometimes allowed to move up- but usually there is only a week left in the season.

This year, if we open pools in Phase 3, I would expect teams to be even more strict about who they allow on.  They have to maintain 10 foot distance, and they can't have coaches in the water.  That limits them to kids who can continue to swim back and forth the length of the pool for practice- not just barely make it across the pool on a 25 and then need to get out and rest for a while.

OP where are you located?   Happy to make some suggestions for lessons that you could get now.  If he wants to do it, its worth getting into lessons now- I agree, most junior teams don't have much for 8 year olds- I have seen tall 7 year olds feel out of place.  [/quote]

It depends on the team.  Some have pre-team.  We have 200-250 kids on our county team and many more want in so they have to do a cut off where you have to at least make a 25 or 50 depending on the age.  [/quote]

OP here. This sounds like ours. We tend to finish near the top of our league each year.[/quote]

Except we are not at the top.  One year we did well.  [/quote]

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