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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are very very few sports where anything at all important is done before age 15.  Maybe gymnastics and figure skating.  Maybe.  Swimming would be right there in the “no one cares” catagory unless they are swimming x times when they are 16/17.  No one cares.  It does not matter.   Pretending there are “important” events does not actually make them important.  [/quote]
Better tell Katie Ledecky that she shouldn’t have gone to the Olympics at age 15, since “no one cares”😂. I’m sure Phoebe Bacon got nothing out of going to Olympic Trials at age 13 either.  Nope, that definitely didn’t prepare her for future top-level national and international meets.

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Swim the time and you are in.  You can do that at “anywhere/anytime meet” as long as time keeping is accurate.  Lots of pools everywhere meet the standards - even in a good many high schools now.

As a parent of a kid who was on a youth soccer team built to win a youth national championship I feel pretty good in saying - the travel is not needed - and boy did we travel.  It was stupid then and even more stupid now.  [/quote]

NP here, re: anytime/anywhere meets don’t provide the same level of competition.[/quote]

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