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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am actually surprised all of these programs are surviving due to the NCAA/House litigation that is shrinking swim rosters, particularly men’s.  I think the threshold for swimming in college is going to get exponentially harder, so it is getting harder to justify the sacrifices made to not get a slot and probably hurt your chances in regular college admissions bc you have no other activities.  I have always been told Winter juniors cuts and good grades will get a kid a slot at a D1 school.  I think you are now going to need faster times than that, which is really hard.

As a parent of a kid staring down this reality and who loves to be in the water, it is depressing.  I feel bad they have spent so much time on the sport (and achieved what used to be the needed standards) and it will likely go no where now.  If I had a younger kid I would stick with summer swim and HS swim and try to develop other interests.

And, please save the criticism.  I know there are worse problems in the world and I already blame myself for giving in when they asked to do all this.[/quote]

This is crazy to me. My kids play different club sports. Not once did we go in with an expectation of a NCAA scholarship. Sports, including swim, are about so much more than getting a D1 scholarship. [/quote]

Actually your kid is more likely to get. d1 scholarship after the NCAA House litigation.  It is walk-ons who have been eliminated and roster size has been cut.  But I guess my point is when you start aging into the elite HS groups I am not sure it is worth doing if you are not swimming in college and that is so much harder now.  I too was a parent who agreed to club swim when my kid was little bc they absolutely loved it and it gave them another social outlet and seemed like healthy non-contact exercise.  But now we are at a crossroads where my kid can’t participate in a lot of school activities or hold a job during the school year bc practice is so intense.  It seemed worth it when they were chasing college dreams but now I am questioning it. I am just trying to provide this perspective to parents thinking about getting on the swim train. The world is wide and big![/quote]

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