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[quote=Anonymous]Not uncommon for kids to burnout of year-round swimming and quit in high school.

The training is a time-consuming grind and usually involves getting up before dawn several days a week. This does not come naturally to the teenage body!

On top of that, in high school academics get harder and more time consuming and social opportunities (and pressures) multiply and magnify. In short, there are many more things competing for their time, and many of them are more appealing than a grueling training regimen.

At 12 they are happy to do year round because they see great improvement in their times and it makes for a more successful summer swim season at their community pool. As high school-age kids their times are likely to flatline or even get worse (bodies change in puberty). And summer swim doesn't have the pull it once did because by the high school years most of their friends who aren't super serious swimmers have dropped off the summer team and moved on to other things. Eyeball your summer team at a meet and you'll see that the vast majority of the kids are 12 and unders.
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