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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Think of swimming cost like you do Costco vs Safeway. If you only want to buy the bare minimum the price per unit is going to be drastically higher than if you were to buy in bulk![/quote]

This is what I have a problem with. We have a talented swimmer who can’t make 5 practices a week because they are heavily involved in another sport.  The kids that do swim five days a week get much more attention at meets and in practice, even though they aren’t any faster or paying any more.  How does this make any sense?  Seems like a pyramid scheme.[/quote]

Our club team is quite open, including in parent meetings, about practice frequency being one metric for demonstrated commitment, and commitment being one qualification for advancement.  Obviously kids who don't have the tines won't move up groups, but considering the extent to which swimming is an individual sport, a kid who likes another sport equally or better may eventually have to choose - at least that's how the teams feel.  The limited coaches' attention goes to the people who are putting in the development time, not the kids who can just hop in and swim fast for their age.[/quote]
+1, it is the same at our club. Once a swimmer gets to the groups for middle school aged kids and older the metrics for advancement to the various groups are clearly spelled out. For the higher level training groups there are specific time standards that need to be met as well as a practice attendance requirement. The reality also is that the time standards that need to be met for placement in the high level high school aged groups generally can’t be met by someone in the water only 3 days a week. Yes, there may be 1 or 2 outliers, but at the higher levels they aren’t looking at 50 free time standards, they are looking at the 2 and 4IM and mid-distance freestyle, and a kid only in the water 3 days a week is generally not going to be able to meet the standards in those events. The clear metrics is one of the things I really appreciate about swimming. [/quote]

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