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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is ridiculous. I swam in college for a top 15 D1 team and had no where NEAR A times at age 10! Plenty of kids blossom late in swimming. Stop getting so hung up on young swimmers' times and read USA swimming's report on the 10 and Under Wonder.[/quote]
What years did you go to college? Today’s landscape is a lot different. We’ve all seen the 10 and Under Wonder report and it does not mean that the norm in this day and age for swimmers to be B level until HS and all of a sudden take off. [/quote]

You clearly missed the point of the ten and under wonder report- it doesn’t matter that times are different now. What stays the same is the fast kids under ten don’t stay fast bc if so many extraneous variables [/quote]

DP - or they get injured or burn out, both common in kids who start swimming intensely at very ages.

Also: kids who start at a "later" age or start swimming more competitively at later ages can absolutely improve, depending on how hard they're willing to work (and, to some extent, what kind of physical changes happen with puberty).  That's the benefit of a sport like swimming vs. soccer, for example.[/quote]

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