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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure where all your kids swim, but my non championship kids have never had a problem getting into a club.  Is this a MD thing? And no, they don’t make JO cuts….[/quote]
It’s club dependent, there are so many clubs in the DMV that any swimmer should be able to find a place to swim. However, for the bigger and more competitive clubs (RMSC, NCAP, Machine) tryouts are competitive. The other piece is that once you are in at one of these clubs, you do not lose your spot even if you do not end up developing into a champs level swimmer. As a result there are a decent number of slots in the 9 and over groups that are already taken by the kids that started with the club at 7 or 8, making it even more competitive for the kid trying to join at age 11-12.[/quote]

A number of the clubs have at least two groups for kids 11 and up.  One group is the serious competitive one (often requiring 4 or 5 days a week practice), and the other is not so competitive (3 days a week or so) even though they usually still go to meets.  [/quote]
My kid swims with NCAP and at our site 11-12 is where you see a lot of kids stop swimming. We don’t have a less competitive option for swimmers that age, so the choice is to either make the commitment to the more competitive group or leave the club. There is a less competitive HS option, but that doesn’t help the kids in 7th-8th grade who like to swim but it’s not their primary sport, or they don’t want to practice 5-6 days a week with some early mornings. [/quote]

Interesting.  We are at a NCAP site too and they have a less competitive group for that age.  Guess it all varies by club AND location.[/quote]

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