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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the idea of the age group determination date being August 1st. Whatever age you are by August 1st is the age group you swim in for that summer season. 
So if you turn 9 on August 1st or anytime before that, you swim in 9-10s that whole summer. It makes sense.

Most of the girls in the "8&U" age group who made coach's long course and individual all stars this year were already 9 years old or days/weeks away. The fastest "8&U" girl who is breaking a bunch of MCSL records literally had her birthday announced on the individual all star meet day. Before all you keyboard warriors come at me like OMG ARE YOU A STALKER?! HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THEIR AGES?!...this is publicly available information online. If you don't like this, write to you're representative to get legislation in place. It's utterly creepy how publicly available all of our swimmers' info is on MeetMobile etc etc.

Let's not kid ourselves either about "oh this is just for fun!!! It's summer swim you troll!!!! How dare you take this from the children?!?!". I'd say 99% of the 8&U girls who made coach's long course or individual all stars are year-round club swimmers. So they're used to the year-round rule which is....you age up on your birthday. Changing it to August 1st would give ACTUAL 8&Us that aren't club swimmers a chance to make those events.  [/quote]
Some of this post makes no sense. If there were swimmers “days or weeks away” from turning 9 when they swam at IAS (the last meet of the summer season) then they were competing as their actual age all season, so I fail to see what the problem is with that. As for  a kid turning 9 on the day of IAS, whatever, the records she set were during the season while she was actually 8. [/quote]

Not PP. I think the days or weeks away didn't just reference IAS. It meant CLC which is a few weeks from the end of the season. [/quote]

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