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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think aging up on your birthday makes swimming the fairest sport out there. [/quote]

I think it’s fair in theory, but then the swim season shouldn’t be structured around very few championships where the same swimmers benefit from a fortunate birthday year after year. [/quote]

Nothing is fair.  Summer birthdays benefit greatly in summer league.  Not fair to others. There are three championship times of year that a kid can excel.  We have a kid that is 10 and ages up at the end of February and was able to make the 11-12 cuts for championships. That was the goal and she accomplished it. [/quote]

New poster: that’s great but it doesn’t change the fact that the worst birthdays for most of swim is feb to mid March. This is especially true once you’re swimming against kids undergoing early puberty or who have a late birthday. [/quote]

Just popping in to say that Katie Ledecky's birthday if March 17, and a she swam as the same age in JOs at least twice. (Like one year they started on the 16th and the following year the 18th)[/quote]

Clap clap - yes, of course, any of us can cherry pick an example of how this doesn’t matter. But for nearly all kids, the worst swim birthdays through 16, is from Feb through the most of March. [/quote]

Sorry - misread what you wrote. I have a friend whose daughter did the same at PVS’ Jos - mid March birthday - and her bday one year fell on day 2 of the meet. That was her second year swimming 13/14. The following year, JOs happened again at a time when she swam 13/14 for a third year, even though she turned 15 in the middle of the meet. [/quote]

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