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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the basic problem when it comes down to it is that there is a 24 month window for the 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14 groups.  If the cutoff was sep 1 then you'd have "8" year olds in the 9-10 group.  Right now, just like in ANY OTHER youth league you have the kids at the older end and yes, this means that a kid who has a july 1 birthday (and will turn 11 then) will be swimming the season as 9-10 and be 22 months older than a kid who turned 9 on may 1.  There is no answer to fix this problem EXCEPT to make the groups smaller in age (12 month window instead of 24) but then things would take forever to run (unless you combined the heats, but then you'd have to figure out who "won" from the 9 year old sets later).  And then you'll still have some kids 11 months older than others in their bracket.  Taken to extremes you could have a separate category for every season or every month even with separate records/times for each but hopefully everyone thinks that is absurd.[/quote]

No, it’s not like any other youth league. That’s bc club swim cuts it off whatever your age is the first day of a meet. It’s is not as if club swim - even ymca USA swimming- follows these rules for summer or any other time. [/quote]

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