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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is the fastest kids are largely not swimming summer league practices, so this really is a non-issue. My child is one of these our team slated as needing to workout with the 13+ swimmers, but she’ll be at club practice during that time anyway. (Yes, there are the occasional swimmers who do not practice with their club team in summer.) [/quote]

Not the PP, but my impression is the chorus of complaints and/or eye rolls are from 12U parents. By 13, the kids have already sorted themselves out.

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Mine is 11, and her whole relay is slated to practice with the 13+, but none of them are really going to be there because of club practice. So people could make a thing of it (why, I don’t know), but it’s ultimately a non-issue. I think this kind of thing is probably more glaring, leaving 12U parents to argue in their fishbowl, on smaller teams with fewer club swimmers. [/quote]

The issue that can present on teams who have a lot of club swimmers is that not all club swimmers are the most advanced swimmers. A healthy portion of swimmers in NVSL and MCSL also swim various levels of club, but not all are advanced or even particularly fast. (That’s why the sport is great — there is a place for everyone.) So the “club swimmers demarcation line” on these teams doesn’t work, and then parents get mad that some club swimmers are moved up, while others have to swim in their age group. But if you zoom in enough, like PPs have said, the advanced club swimmers (even 12Us) are not going to summer swim team practice (some exceptions apply, ie, club teams that do not require LC enrollment). And the advanced swimmers get hurt in practice groups with kids far slower and less technical. It’s a safety issue to put 10 kids in a lane and a club swimmer who has to basically stop and walk because they get kicked otherwise.[/quote]

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