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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was wondering this too. There is a 9yr old in our 8 and under that’s over a foot taller than anyone else.

We should age up on our birthday that’s literally the only way to make it fair. For a 8yr old turning 9 going from 25m to 50m is not a big deal. What’s the rationale this hasn’t been the rule?

Cutoff date of June 1 makes no sense. Either the date or divisionals or the actual date makes the most sense. [/quote]

It was a big deal for my kid who turned 9 during the first week of summer swim practice. No one had ever worked with them on flip turns because they spent the whole winter season as an 8 and under in that practice group. They had won divisionals in 25 free the year before as they just turned 8 year old. I can only imagine how well they would’ve done if their a birthday was a couple days later and had an extra summer of 25s. It is what it is, but it’s pretty easy to see the advantage of an early June birthday compared to a late May birthday. Puberty tends to even things out later.[/quote]

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