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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you should focus on the activities that will help your DC get an appointment. If your kid isn't fast enough to get recruited, then dial back the swimming and focus on scouts and leadership opportunities. Swim for fun and to stay in shape. Good luck. [/quote]

Coaches don't allow this. It's what everybody has been saying. [/quote]

That's not entirely true, that level of swimming exists in many clubs, or just doing the HS team unless the team is so competitive it's really only year round swimmers, which is definitely the case at some DMV schools.

However, many kids who have been at this high level of swimming have a very hard time "dropping back" and prefer to leave the sport instead. I have HS kids at the highest level, one is already committed to college. I have never seen a kid leave this group and keep swimming at the base club level for fun and staying in shape. Pride, burnout, moving on, different priorities... any number of reasons, but although a low level commitment group is an option, they just don't do it. [/quote]

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