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[quote=Anonymous]80s kid here. When we wore caps — which was really unusual — we wore Lycra caps that were the same fabric as our swimsuits. Nobody wore goggles except maybe the older kids. Club swim was popular (we called it “year round” swim). In Georgia, club teams like Swim Atlanta and Dynamo heavily recruited in our summer league. One of my summer league teammates even held the American Record in [edit] short course breaststroke for awhile. She was always fast, even before swimming club, but she did swim for either Dynamo or Swim Atlanta starting early. I swam for both (started with Dynamo, then moved to Swim Atlanta, then quit altogether when doubles at age 11 burned me out). The 80s were…something. And I echo the comment about eating jello straight out of the pack. We believed the lime flavor made us the fastest. Add on the way suburban Atlanta summer leagues hold one long meet for all swimmers, many of which were delayed by thunderstorms, and how local pizza places would stay open for a whole huge swim team to arrive at 11 pm (!!!) to eat, and boy was summer league fun![/quote]

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