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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one can predict what is going to happen.

My kid was a B swimmer until 13 then grew in height and now is a AA/AAA swimmer. Her friend who was tall at 10- made JOs was fast and strong- stopped growing at 10 and is now a slower than B swimmer.[/quote]

I think that you see this more often.  A lot of kids sprout at 10-11 and are taller than their peers.  But they stop growing around 5th or 6th grade on the early bloomers.  A lot of taller kids are slower to grow and end up being later.  I tend to look at parents, to see what the height is on mom and dad.  The average height parents tend to have taller kids earlier in the sport.  Whereas the taller parents there kids are later.[/quote]

Don’t forget about those of us who were off the charts since birth and continued to be, LOL. I am the D1 swimmer PP and that was me. I think my times got faster as I got older because I “filled out”. The kids who were shorter but bigger than me used to beat me. Then I caught up to them in terms of size but I had the height advantage. In some cases their larger size turned into a disadvantage as they were no longer lean once puberty hit. As I mentioned, tall and skinny with the potential to put on muscle later tends to be sought after by college coaches. Most kids have trained about as much as they can in HS in terms of pool time. To continue improving as a young adult, the outside of the pool stuff starts to matter more, such as weight training, nutrition, and injury management. [/quote]

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