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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I skipped a grade and turned 18 in March of my freshman year of college. Why can’t I compete as an 18 year old in an 18 and under league?  Not a 19 year old, or even an old 18 year old. I was a year and a half younger than most of my classmates - grew later, drove later, etc.  Let me have this one thing![/quote]
So as a college sophomore you would have wanted to spend your summer participating in summer swim with a group of high school kids and younger, none of whom were your classmates? Sure :roll: [/quote]

Yes. I was the coach and taught swim lessons and lifeguarded. It was my summer job. And I swam in the meets, with people who I had been teammates with for years and were on my high school team. It’s not like I was competing against the 8 year olds.  The funny thing is that even though I was a Division I swimmer, I was a distance swimmer, so I wasn’t very good at the summer league sprint races. But I wasn’t trying to rack up medals, it was something done for fun.[/quote]

So were you getting first place in your events at All Stars, or were high schoolers beating you? I posted that I think it’s pathetic because I would have won my events easily being a stroke and IM swimmer. That would have felt so empty considering I had access to NCAA training with certified strength and conditioning coaches at a university in a power conference. I could see it being a little different if you’re a distance swimmer at a smaller D1 program. There’s a wide range even within D1.

The example of a 17 year old high schooler placing at National is different. That high schooler is doing USA club swim training like everyone else in high school. That’s a more even playing field. [/quote]

Genuine question from a non club swim parent, a person who is ranked 2nd in the country right behind a decorated Olympian is doing the training as the kids on my local high school team? And the training that person is doing is less than a D1 swimmer? [/quote]

E G is effectively doing D1 training, as are a lot of kids who aren't as good.[/quote]

Thank you for clarifying. Since this the case what difference does it make if an 18 yo comes back to swim the summer between freshman and sophomore year if lots of kids are training at the same level or higher in high school?

I got to see some of these elite swimmers this summer and honestly I didn’t hear any kids swimming against them complain, if anything they thought it was pretty cool. Most of the swimmers and parents stopped to watch the races. Probably something my kids will remember for years - they swam in the same meet as some of the best in the country. [/quote]

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