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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't understand why this tread is still going on.

The summer swim season is so short. Are you really going to have a kid who was 8 at the start of the season and swam time trials as an 8 year old have to swim 50s for maybe the last 2-3 weeks of the season if they have an early July birthday? How does that even make sense?

The year round swim season is longer so I get that their policy is you age up on the day of your birthday. There aren't time trials and a ladder involved. As a team rep, I can't get my head around how we would handle a kid aging up in the middle of the season and needing new times.

Also one of my kids has the "perfect summer swim birthday" and it really hasn't given my kid a huge advantage because my child is already small for their age. Its not this magical advangate everyone seems to think it is. And with a two year age group, things even out every other year. This thread is seriously making my head hurt! Get over it![/quote]

If the cut-off date changed from June 1 to August 1 next year, you'd immediately see how much of an advantage it was for the kids who aged up by two years.  Say the average 10 year old is improving by 3 seconds a year.  If they age up by two years next year, they'd need to improve by 6 seconds next year just to keep up.  Otherwise they'd fall 3 seconds behind the pack, which might not seem like much now but add 3 seconds to every event for an average 10 year old and see how many places that costs them every week.[/quote]

What are you talking about? There would still be a whole bunch of August, September, and October kids swimming.

I have one kid who has a really “bad” birthday for summer swim and one kid who has a “good” birthday for summer swim.

I also know a kid who has a really bad soccer birthday (December) and a kid who has a really good soccer birthday (January).

I can name lots of other sports where this is the case.

It’s the nature of team sports.

I get that you want your child to have an advantage, but you really just have to accept that in this case, your child doesn’t.

I actually think the only people who would complain would be club swim parents. They expect their kid to beat everyone and when they don’t, they have to blame it on something. Summer-only swim parents - swim isn’t their thing - so they don’t care so much about it.

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